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Semiconductor provider NXP has showcased a complete autonomous vehicle platform which makes use of its new BlueBox engine.

The company, which has just become the foremost provider of silicon to the global automotive market, has a system demonstration which also makes use of radar, lidar, and vision sensing, as well as an onboard secure V2X system – all running on NXP silicon currently in volume production or sampling to customers now.

The BlueBox engine is with customers at four of the top five largest carmakers and offers OEMs and their suppliers the technology required to comply with the stringent safety, power and processing performance requirements of the global automotive industry.

In autonomous vehicles systems, several streams of sensor data are sent to the BlueBox engine, where they are integrated to provide a 360° world model around the vehicle. As a result, safety is ensured with the management and prevention of emergency situations.

BlueBox and its connected secure smart solutions also make use of embedded intelligence and machine learning required for complete situational assessments, supporting advanced classification tasks, object detection, localization, mapping and vehicle driving decisions.

The NXP BlueBox engine for autonomous vehicles is a step ahead of closed systems focused only on vision or other single-sensor data streams and is an open-platform, Linux-based solution programmable in linear C language that automotive manufacturers can easily customize to their needs for optimal product differentiation.