S23V234, supporting secure, compute-intensive applications

Mouser Electronics is stocking NXP Semiconductors' S32V234 vision and sensor fusion processor.

The S32V234 is designed to support safe, compute-intensive applications in vision and sensor fusion applications such as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), front camera systems, pedestrian and object recognition, surround view, and machine learning.

The NXP S32V234 processor, available from Mouser, offers a heterogeneous yet robust combination of a CPU, GPU, and image processor, delivering high processing power, vision acceleration, and security. It integrates four Arm Cortex-A53 cores, running at up to 1GHz, along with a NEON coprocessor and an Arm Cortex-M4 CPU. The Cortex-M4 allows the automotive operating system to interface with external devices independently of the Cortex-A53 CPU.

The S32V234 processor provides 4MB of on-chip system RAM and two 32-bit DRAM controllers, supporting LPDDR2/DDR3/DDR3L (all with ECC memory). To implement image processing and vision capabilities, it includes dual APEX-2 vision accelerators, a GC3000 3D GPU (supporting surround view), MIPI CSI2 and parallel image sensor interfaces, and a built-in image signal processor. Additionally, the S32V234 offers an impressive array of connectivity capabilities, including Gigabit Ethernet, a Zipwire serial interface, dual CAN-FD interfaces, two-channel FlexRay communication, and PCI Express (PCIe) lanes.

The S32V234 processor offers numerous security features, including an On-the-Fly AES Cryptographic Engine (OTFAD) and a Cryptographic Services Engine (CSE) that complies with the Secure Hardware Extension (SHE) protocol specification. It also boasts automotive safety compliance capabilities developed through NXP's SafeAssure program, which was developed to help manufacturers achieve system compliance with ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 functional safety standards.

The S32V234 processor is supported by the SBC-S32V234 Vision Prototyping Kit, which offers options for the Linux (Yocto) and AutoSAR operating systems. The SBC-S32V234 kit is supported by a set of support tools and the S32 Design Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE).