Description

Decentralized vehicle architectures on the road today use individual ECUs that lack processing power and high-speed interfaces to handle the complex tasks and data movement needs of newly emerging automotive architectures. Higher level functions require the right combination of DMIPS: data bandwidth and power efficiency. The DRA829V and TDA4VM processors in our Jacinto™ 7 processor family provides necessary performance: power and automotive interfaces needed for these architectures.This automotive reference design can enable domain-based architectures while showcasing the performance capabilities of DRA829V and TDAV4M SoCs. This 8-layer PCB design is optimized to reduce cost and time-to-market: making it a great way to evaluate Jacinto 7 processors with a fully functional domain controller board while enabling automotive connectivity interfaces including Ethernet: CAN-FD and PCIe.Note: This DRA829/TDA4VM SoCs 8-layer reference design is tailored towards customers focused on cost: power and size optimization rather than full entitlement of features; the design focuses only on a subset of the capabilities of the DRA829/TDA4VM SoCs. For superset features: please refer to the DRA829V Jacinto Automotive Processors: Silicon Revision 1.0 data sheet.For engineers who want to unlock more capabilities of the DRA829V or TDA4VM processors: please note that we also have a 10-layer PCB design for that purpose. Please refer to the 10-layer reference design study readme" notes for more details."