Ceva has announced that its SensPro™ IP DSP sensor hub has achieved ASIL B and ASIL D certifications.
ASIL certification of the ISO 26262-compliant functional safety standard is essential for automotive systems-on-chip (SoC) used in safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) applications.
"CEVA has been committed to providing high-performance DSPs and complete SDKs for automotive applications for over a decade. We are pleased to achieve functional safety certification for our latest DSPs in cooperation with SGS-TÜV Saar. SensPro's scalable architecture is ideal for increasingly sophisticated ADAS processors that manage and fuse data from a variety of vehicle sensors; their certification for these functions enables designers to develop state-of-the-art ISO 26262 compliant automotive SoCs," commented Ran Snir, Vice President and General Manager of Ceva's Vision Business Unit.
SensPro has already been licensed by several major automotive semiconductor manufacturers for next-generation automotive SoCs. As a provider of automotive intellectual property, SensPro's security certification reflects the company's commitment to a security-centric design methodology for its processors, tools and software for automotive applications.
SensPro's high-performance DSP sensor hub is designed to process and fuse data from multiple sensors, including cameras, radar and Lidar, in a highly energy-efficient manner; SensPro also offers 8- and 16-bit parallel processing capability required for deep neural network (DNN) inference processing.
SensPro's ASIL certification is based on SGS-TÜV Saar's comprehensive audit and assessment of the functional safety development flow in accordance with ISO 26262:2018 and can be found on the SGS-TÜV website.
Wolfgang Ruf, functional safety manager for semiconductors at SGS-TÜV Saarcommented: "The certification of CEVA DSP's SensPro sensor hub for ASIL D systematic compliance and ASIL B random compliance gives customers confidence that their automotive SoCs can achieve compliance with automotive safety levels.
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