Supports data integrity and fast data transfer speeds with GMSL SerDes

Maxim Integrated announced its collaboration with NVIDIA to support NVIDIA’s DRIVE Pegasus, the industry’s first Level 5 fully autonomous driving platform, and DRIVE Xavier for Level 4 driving.

Maxim’s Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) solutions and high-performance analog integration technologies, including next-generation Gigabit Multimedia Serial Link (GMSL) SerDes technology and power system monitoring solutions, support functional safety for NVIDIA’s autonomous driving platforms.

Automobile manufacturers are focusing on safety related to advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) for safe autonomous driving. Critical safety systems require redundancy and fault diagnosis functions by configuring some or all of the components in multiples to prepare for failures, and must comply with strict ASIL standards.

ADAS requires interconnect technology that creates a rich data environment for future cars. Using Maxim’s ASIL-rated voltage/power monitoring and SerDes technology, NVIDIA is delivering the industry’s first Level 5 autonomous driving system.

Maxim's next-generation 6Gbps GMSL SerDes technology supports the high data rates, complex interconnects, and data integrity required for future automotive infotainment, ADAS, and autonomous driving. It also provides the safety features and flexibility required for autonomous driving systems such as the NVIDIA DRIVE Pegasus and Xavier platforms. It supports ultra-low quiescent current (I _Q ) automotive-grade power management solutions for high-performance analog integration.

“The NVIDIA DRIVE AI platform, which scales from Super Level 2 to fully autonomous capabilities, Level 5, requires high-bandwidth camera data transmission and aggregation,” said Gary Hicok, senior vice president of Hardware Development at NVIDIA. “Working with Maxim’s safety solutions, NVIDIA will deliver the highest safety standards in the industry.”