Qualcomm Launches SoC for Automotive Infotainment "Snapdragon 820A"

Semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm is the SoC of SoC developed for cars at CES 2016 in Las Vegas, USASnapdragon 820AWe announced the family. The Snapdragon processor with "A" meaning "Automotive" has performance optimized for driver assistance including car navigation function, car infotainment such as 4K motion picture reproduction, and surrounding situation grasping It is.

Snapdragon 820 Automotive processors debut at CES 2016 | Qualcomm
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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 A is a high-end phone chip adapted for your car | Ars Technica
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At the CES 2016 venue already NVIDIA"NVIDIA Drive PX 2" which has the capability of 150 MacBook Pros with one board and realizes automatic driving carAs announced, many automobile-related presentations have been made. Qualcomm announced that the Snapdragon 820A family SoC does not correspond to the automatic driving function, but it will integrate and evolve the conventional in-vehicle entertainment and information system and further realize the "connected car" to the Internet It is a pattern that is.

The Snapdragon 820A family consists of the regular version "Snapdragon 820A" and the "Snapdragon 820 Am" with built-in LTE communication function. Both are Unix-like OSQNX, Linux, Android and can provide an environment connected to the Internet with smartphone or built-in communication function.

In addition, by providing the ability to output movies on multiple displays, it supports multi-display functions such as navigation screen on the dashboard and movies on the back seat display. Furthermore, in the future it is said that it is also possible to respond to the playback of 4K quality movies.

Part of that ability can be confirmed with the following image movie created by Qualcomm. It seems that advanced functions will be realized, such as opening the door by voice, operating navigation with gesture control, or installing an information display that displays various information on the meter part.

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The Snapdragon 820A family includes Kryo and Qualcomm Adreno 530 GPUs for quad-core 64-bit CPUs and Qualcomm Hexagon 680 DSP for DSPs. It supports up to 8 cameras at the same time and supports multiple outputs to the touch screen supporting output image quality up to 4K in output system. In addition to supporting output of 4K 60fps image quality with HDMI 2.0 connection, the same image as the main screen can be mirrored to the back seat with 4K image qualityMiracast2.0 is supported.

In the communication function, you can connect to the smartphone via Wi-Fi · Bluetooth and connect to the Internet, Snapdragon 820 Am is equipped with an X12 LTE modem that can communicate up to 600 Mbps of downlink speed and 150 Mbps uplink speed, It is possible to connect at all times. In addition, this modem bundles 4 × 4 MIMO and multiple LTE methodsCarrier aggregationIt also said that it corresponds.

In addition, the Snapdragon 820A family connects sensors and up to eight cameras from four to grasp the approaching object, recognize the risk that the vehicle will protrude from the lane of the road, and call attention to the driver Support for functions. By utilizing high-speed processing capability, advanced infotainment and driver assist function can be realized with one chip.

The sample shipments of the Snapdragon 820A will be launched in the first quarter of 2016, and at the CES 2016 venue, a functional demonstration that utilizes this chip is supposed to be carried out.

Snapdragon 820 Automotive Processor | Qualcomm