CPU IP designed for safety critical systems in an autonomous age

Imagination Technologies announced a highly-scalable 64-bit MIPS multiprocessing solution that has been stringently assessed and validated to meet functional safety (FuSa) compliance for ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 standards. This makes it ideal for handling the compute-intensive tasks in emerging safety-critical systems such as autonomous vehicles, industrial IoT and robotics. Surpassing the capabilities of other FuSa CPU IP cores, the I6500-F provides a high-performance, highly efficient backbone for the many-core designs that drive these systems, scaling to 64 heterogeneous clusters of multi-threaded multi-core MIPS CPUs and other accelerators in a system. FuSa is essential to all parts of a safety-critical system, and that includes the CPU IP at the heart of the SoC. Applications such as autonomous vehicles and industrial control systems in smart factories require ever-increasing levels of processing that exceed the capabilities of today’s FuSa compliant CPU IP cores. Customers can use the extended performance capability of the I6500-F to efficiently integrate increased intelligence – including AI techniques such as CNNs and DNNs – in their safety-critical devices. Jim Nicholas, EVP MIPS Processor IP, Imagination says: “We’re providing the performance needed to drive the compute-intensive tasks in a new generation of autonomous and intelligent systems. The I6500-F is a thoroughly tested IP solution that will help ensure customers can meet the most stringent safety requirements. If you are building an SoC for this kind of system today, you need the I6500-F.”