Automotive semiconductor solutions company Telechips and P3 Digital Services have announced a partnership to create a pre-integrated software-plus-system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution to transform automotive infotainment for OEMs.
As a result, the TCC805x (Dolphin3) processor device from Telechips is now fully integrated with SPARQ OS, P3’s in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system. This enables vehicle manufacturers to bring new products featuring advanced infotainment to the marketplace faster using a hypervisor-less approach.
A hypervisor is a software layer between the hardware and the OS. It allows multiple virtual machines, managed and resourced individually, to run on the same hardware. With a hypervisor-less approach, virtualization capabilities are built directly into the hardware or host OS. By doing so, Telechips’ solutions reduce system complexity and overheads to deliver better performance.
Key features of Dolphin3 are flexibility and other functionalities related to media and video display options. The system supports dual and triple display configurations, and multichannel camera input, and includes an image signal processing subsystem and MICOM subsystem to support an isolated safety island. Dolphin3’s flexible architecture enables different IVI system requirements and deployments based on Android Automotive IVI, instrument cluster and ADAS.
Stanley Kim, head of the automotive business unit at Telechips, said, “Our Dolphin3 SoC combined with rapidly expanding SPARQ OS enables OEMs to deliver their innovative products to market faster while customers can enjoy a leading-edge infotainment experience.”
Marius Mailat, CTO and managing director of P3 Digital Services, added, “Dolphin3 delivers a huge range of deployment options to meet the needs of OEMs as they roll out new vehicles, and bringing Dolphin3 together with SPARQ, and soon Dolphin5, means that OEMs and their customers get transformational infotainment.”
