TDA2x SoC powered development board for autonomous vehicle

Texas Instruments (TI) has made available a new development board for automotive driver assistant systems and autonomous vehicle application. The RT-RK Alpha development board uses TDAx SOC from TI and supports ADAS applications such as advanced warning systems, active control systems and semi-autonomous driving. The development board has three TDA2x processors which can run up to six independent ADAS applications simultaneously at 24W. The board supports 10 sensor inputs, parallel ADAS application execution and production ready ADAS algorithms based on TI's software development kit Vision SDK. The single board can support multiple applications with provisions to add differentiating algorithms. TI says, this board allows to connect vehicle cameras on one ECU. The board is powerfull enough supporting level-3 and level- 4 autonomous vehicle systems. TDA2x SoC in this board are scalable and share a common hardware and software architecture such as camera-based front (mono/stereo), rear, surround view and night vision, plus multi-mode radar and sensor fusion systems. The processors support video processing algorithms. The algorithms supported by this board are production ready for front camera and surround view. It also has production ready imaging support for features such as image pipeline, wide dynamic range (WDR) and flicker mitigation. The TDAx processors use heterogen...