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Omnivision wins coveted 2022 LEAP Award

October 18, 2022 By Aimee Kalnoskas

Omnivision took home the bronze medal in the recently completed 2022 Leap Awards for product innovation.

LEAP AwardsThe LEAP Awards celebrates the most innovative and forward-thinking products serving the design engineering space. Omnivision won in the Embedded Computing category, which includes microcontrollers (MCUs) or microprocessors (MPUs) or other custom-designed chips, and supporting software in ROM (Read Only Memory) that comprise embedded computing. Also included are development tools and operating systems, computer boards, systems, and components, storage, and wired and wireless connectivity, including IoT and IIoT.

Omnivision’s OAX4600 is an advanced AI-enabled application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that can seamlessly and simultaneously power dedicated driver and occupant monitoring systems (DMS/OMS). It uses a stacked-die architecture to provide integrated RGB-IR image signal processing (ISP) with two AI neural processing units (NPUs) and embedded DDR3 memory (2Gb) in a single low-power, small package chip.

“Driver monitoring solutions that are high performance and low power, with a small package size, are attractive to OEMs looking to comply to regional safety regulations. The flexibility to add additional features and expand into cabin monitoring is a bonus,” says Mark Fitzgerald, director, Autonomous Vehicle Research, Strategy Analytics.

The OAX4600 is a next-generation ASIC that uses OMNIVISION’s dedicated NPU with 2 tera operations per second (TOPS). Seeing Machine’s Occula NPU is also included for greater application flexibility. The OAX4600 features 2Gb of embedded DDR stacked memory and utilizes the tri-ARM Cortex A53 with NEON core subsystem. “Our OAX4600 is set to transform the automotive industry. It integrates a unique set of features developed specifically for interior monitoring systems (IMS), and its small size and low power provide OEMs with the flexibility to place the camera at any location within the car, regardless of space constraints,” said Brian Pluckebaum, automotive product marketing manager at OMNIVISION. “It uses OMNIVISION’s ISP processing technology and dedicated NPU to ensure robust, latency-free image processing, even in the case of RGB-IR. We have also designed this device from the ground up with ASIL B functional safety in mind.”

The OAX4600 is capable of higher resolution processing of up to 5 megapixels. It has fast boot-up time to eliminate any delay between ignition and activation of the interior camera and features integrated cybersecurity. The OAX4600 comes in a BGA package and is available for sampling now.

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Filed Under: Applications, Artificial intelligence, Automotive, Embedded, Industry News, LEAP Tagged With: LEAP, omnivision

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