NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2

Nvidia presents its car super-computer at CES 2016! DRIVE PX 2 is the world's most advanced autonomous car platform combining deep learning, sensor fusion, and surround vision. Drive PX2 is based on 2xTegra SoC (two Denver 2 and four Cortex A57cores with a 256-core Pascal GPU) + 2 x discrete Pascal GPU. Dual NVIDIA Tegra processors delivering a combined 2.5 Teraflops and dual NVIDIA Pascal GPUs delivering over 5 TFLOPS and over 24 DL TOPS! There is Interfaces for up to 12 cameras, radar, lidar, and ultrasonic sensors! This allows algorithms to accurately understand the full 360 degree environment around the car to produce a robust representation, including static and dynamic objects.

The liquid-cooled beast with the power equivalent to 150 MacBook Pros. Say hello to the Drive PX 2. It sports 12 CPU cores and has 8 teraflops worth of processing power.

NVIDIA also offers an end-to-end mapping technology for self-driving cars, designed to help automakers, map companies, and startups rapidly create HD maps and keep them updated. DriveWorks is a Software Development Kit (SDK) that contains reference applications, tools and library modules.

The self-driving cars needs to know exactly where it is,to be able to recognize the objects around it, and continuously calculate the optimal path for a safe driving experience. This situational and contextual awareness of the car and its surroundings demands a powerful visual computing system that can merge data from cameras and other sensors, plus navigation sources, while also figuring out the safest path - all in real-time.

Nvidia Parker SoC specifications:

• CPU – 2x Denver 2 ARMv8 cores, and 4x ARM Cortex A57 cores with 2MB + 2 MB L2 cache, coherent HMP architecture (meaning all 6 cores can work at the same time)
• GPUs – Nvidia Pascal Geforce GPU with 256 CUDA cores supporting DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.5, Nvidia CUDA 8.0, OpenGL ES 3.1, AEP, and Vulkan + 2D graphics engine
• Memory – 128-bit LPDDR4 with ECC
• Display – Triple display pipeline, each at up to 4K 60fps.
• VPU – 4K60 H.265 and VP9 hardware video decoder and encoder
• Others:
  • Gigabit Ethernet MAC
  • Dual-CAN (controller area network)
  • Audio engine
  • Security & safety engines including a dual-lockstep processor for reliable fault detection and processing
  • Image processor
• ISO 26262 functional safety standard for electrical and electronic (E/E) systems compliance
• Process – 16nm FinFet