Spansion® Traveo™ microcontroller family is aimed at rich human machine interface (HMI) in automotive dashboards. For the first time, Spansion is integrating its breakthrough HyperBus™ interface with its ARM® Cortex®-R5-based embedded Traveo MCU, enabling seamless connections with HyperBus memories, including Spansion HyperFlash™ memory, to provide customers design simplification and faster performance in automotive systems.
Former FSL/FSLA Ethernet AES (quinn, Moriguchi) did not transfer to Spansion
No more proprietary cores (R&D invest, time to market, . . . )
ARM‘s Cortex give compatible instruction set over a huge range of applications
Cortex-M for low power and low footprint applications
Cortex-A for IVI (in-vehicle-infotainment) with extensive OS requirements
Cortex-R for Cluster, Chassis, ADAS, High-end body, gateway, ...
Let’s take a closer look at what we built:
HyperBus™ is a new MCU Interface to support HyperFlash™
Enables Cluster Boot in sub-1 second
Delivering B/W ~ 333MB/sec
Significant return on investment
Reduced BOM
Simplified design and layout
Demonstrable performance improvements
Backward compatible, widely adopted going forward
Graphics subsystem consists of 2D graphics core and 3D graphics core. 2D graphics core includes display-video controller, and the display-video controller cooperates with 3D graphics core too.
Not long ago local car dealerships sold you on the number of cupholders – how many hours were invested by car designers in pursuit of the ideal quantity, location, and size of cupholders. Even today, poor cupholder planning can hurt a car sale! Ironically, many technologies such airbags (life saving technology), anti-locking brakes, cruise control have all become ubiquitous for the majority of drivers – these are pretty advanced technologies but totally taken for granted. Differentiation is being determined much more frequently by features more common to consumer electronics: display resolution, HMI, connectivity, ability to synch and tether smart mobile devices, infotainment and availability of usable and relevant apps.
All of these expectations exert significant pressure upon the automotive R&D value chain.