OmniVision announced the OAX8000 AI-enabled, automotive-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The new ASIC is optimized for entry-level, stand-alone driver monitoring system (DMS).

It leverages a stacked-die architecture to provide the DMS processor with on-chip DDR3 SDRAM memory (1GB). Further, the DMS integrates a neural processing unit (NPU) and image signal processor (ISP). This allows for processing speeds up to 1.1 trillion operations per second for eye gaze and eye tracking algorithms.

The entire OAX8000 and automotive image sensors only consumes 1 watt in typical conditions.

Per a company press release, the OAX8000’s on-chip NPU is supported by the popular TensorFlow, Caffe, MXNet, and ONNX tool chains. Additionally, this ASIC embeds quad Arm Cortex A5 CPU cores with Neon technology for accelerated video encoding/decoding and on-chip video analytics algorithms, along with hardware for image processing, video encoding and RGB/IR processing.

The HDR processing capability allows for the ASIC to accept input from RBG/IR image sensors.

Video encoders featured are able to accept up to 5megapixel captures and outputs up to 2K resolution video at 30 frames per second.

For more information, visit https://www.ovt.com/asic.