The S32R45 and S32R41 radar imaging processors from NXP and development tools from Green Hills offer a common architecture and high-resolution 4D radar imaging solution for 360-degree environmental sensing. As Steffen Spannagel, Vice President & General Manager of Nxp's ADAS Division, explained: 'Radar imaging is a major sensing mode that ensures object location and road user classification, improves assisted driving systems and contributes to the realisation of autonomous driving systems. The combination of NXP's S32R45 and S32R41 radar processors and Green Hills' real-time operating system and software development tools enables automakers and tier-one suppliers to introduce the benefits of 4D radar imaging technology to a large number of vehicles while facilitating radar software development."
Radar sensors are indeed a key component of autonomous driving. As vehicle OEMs and their Tier 1 suppliers compete to add more autonomous driving capabilities to an ever-expanding portion of the car fleet, either as an option package for high-end versions or as standard equipment, new radar imaging technologies, such as those found in the S32R45 and S32R41 processors, play an important role in enhancing safety and driving convenience. At the same time, the underlying RTOS faces more stringent safety and determinism requirements in its role of controlling the processor and managing the hardware acceleration resources used by radar applications. In addition, when the S32R45 assumes the function of domain controller by executing additional software components with different levels of criticality, the RTOS must ensure that these components are securely separated, have access to resources, and do not interfere with each other at runtime.
Through the technology partnership, the two companies offer an integrated and scalable solution, combining the industry's first dedicated 16nm radar imaging processor, NXP's S32R45, with the pre-certified safety and security of the INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS) and Green Hills' software development tools.
"Green Hills is excited to collaborate with NXP on the next generation of advanced radar processors and offer customers a production-focused solution that includes an optimized RTOS certified as SEooC , with 10 times less memory footprint than Linux-based solutions, equipped with advanced debugging features that reduce testing time, and with the addition of performance-optimized development tools," said Dan Mender, Vice President of Business Development at Green Hills Software. "By using Green Hills' INTEGRITY radar SDK for NXP's S32R45 and S32R41 processors, customers achieve significant increases in development productivity resulting in reduced production time."
The combined solution from NXP and Green Hills offers a complete, energy-efficient and scalable hardware/software platform for the development and deployment of high performance, high quality radar processing applications. The platform provides:
- superior performance combined with energy efficiency, with the integrated Radar SDK providing advanced hardware-accelerated radar processing and sensor fusion algorithms;
- A scalable software architecture with RTOS and production-ready development tools that allow developers to exploit the benefits of radar accelerators based on the common architecture of NXP's S32R45, S32R41 and future radar processors;
- the compact microkernel of the INTEGRITY RTOS, which offers flexible multicore scheduling options for the Arm® Cortex® -A53 core complex and does not require external memory, thus reducing BOM costs.
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