Toshiba expands its Visconti series of image recognition processors for the automotive market with the launch of Visconti3, part number TMPV7528XBG. Visconti3 offers the superior image recognition technology, while the integration of a dul-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor improves connectivity, performance and system integration for automotive applications.
Real-time image recognition requires the performance of several desktop PC-class processors, but that's not practical for today's car applications due to cost, power and area constraints. The Visconti series uses specialized processors and accelerators to put all the processing needed into a single IC that can fit even in a severely constrained location like a rearview mirror. The Visconti series incorporates up to four image processors and several types of accelerators enabling camera-based systems in cars to more accurately recognize lanes, vehicles, traffic lights, signs and pedestrians in real time, both day and night. The addition of the dual-core Cortex-A9 MPCore lets automotive OEMs leverage today's popular operating systems to more easily connect Visconti3 to other automotive systems. The A9 CPU core includes an FPU that improves performance of image processing by handling the mathematical computations required to analyze large volumes of image data from the video source. The FPU also simplify optimization of the imaging algorithms, so software developers can reduce their overall design time and speed time to market.
Samples of the Visconti3, TMPV7528XBG, will become available in April 2013.
