Keynote Speakers ew conference

Robert Schweiger, Cadence Design Systems

Track Keynote: Architecture trends for sensing and computing to enable automated driving (Thursday, 04 March 2021, 13:30 - 14:00)

The level of automation of a vehicle is the key driver for E/E architectures, sensor architectures and System-on-Chip architectures. Radar, Lidar and Camera are the key sensors to enable autonomous driving. However these sensors still need to be significantly improved in terms of resolution, power consumption, safety, form factor and cost but will also evolve to address new compute architectures. All these new technologies will dramatically increase the electronic content of a car which require to integrate more functionality on a chip, rather than on a PCB to provide the performance, safety and reliability in a small form factor device. As a result, a new class of high-performance System-on-Chip (SoC) and/or System-in-Package (SiP) is needed to process all sensor data and fuse them together to enable vehicles to become “aware” of their surroundings. This talk provides an overview on automotive trends and the implications for SoC design for sensors and automated driving platforms.