GPS World, February 2016

WATCH MARKET OEM 2 T he Snapdragon 820A is Qualcomm Unveils Processor for Connected Cars Qualcomm Technologies newest automotive grade system on chip SoC It offers a scalable nextgeneration infotainment graphics and multimedia platform with machine intelligence along with a version that has integrated LTE long term evolution Advanced connectivity Qualcomm Technologies has taken a modular approach to designing the Snapdragon 820A enabling a vehicles infotainment system to be upgradable through both hardware and software updates so that vehicles can easily have the latest technology The Snapdragon 820As sensor integrat ion provides cognit ive awareness and vehicle self diagnostics supports advanced driver assistance systems ADAS features for improved vehicle safety systems and provides location and navigation through GNSS and dead reckoning technologies The Snapdragon 820A fami ly is based on 14 nanometer FinFET advanced process node running Qualcomms 64 bit Qualcomm Kryo central processing unit CPU Qualcomm Adreno 530 graphics processing unit GPU Qualcomm Hexagon 680 digital signal processor DSP with Hexagon Vector eXtension HVX and Qualcomm Zeroth machine intelligence platform The Snapdragon 820Am version has an integrated X12 LTE modem capable of 600 Mbps downlink 150 Mbps uplink Atmel Targets IoT Wearables PRIZE FOR GNSS OPINIONS Geomatics specialist Larry Tinney won the 50 gift card in our January drawing among takers of the Reader Poll You can win too Go to www gpsworld com febpoll by Feb 22 to answer the question What is the biggest challenge in simulating GNSS environments for testing products under development All poll takers will be entered in a drawing for a 50 gift card After Feb 22 go to www gpsworld com marpoll to register your opinion on an issue relating to Galileo 18 GPS WORLD WWW GPSWORLD COM FEBRUARY 2016 The 820A is engineered with custom bui lt highly optimized cores designed for heterogeneous computing the ability to combine its diverse processing engines within the SoC such as the CPU GPU and DSP cores to achieve performance and power savings The Zeroth initiative is designed to enable automakers to develop deep learning based solutions using neural networks for ADAS and in vehicle infotainment scenarios A tmel Corporation has launched an ultra low power connected platform for cost optimized applications for the Internet of Things IoT and wearable markets The platform is designed for battery operated applications requiring activity and environment monitoring Embodied in a 30 x 40 millimeter form factor the platform integrates the Atmel SMART ultra low power MCU Bluetooth SMART low energy connectivity capacitive touch interface security solution complete software platform real time operating system a BHI160 six axis SmartHub motion sensor and a BME280 environmental sensor from Bosch Sensortec The platform can be powered by a coin cell utilizing low power consumption It also features a lowpower ARM Cortex M0 and the Atmel SMART SAM L21 microcontroller which has a power consumption down to 35μA MHz in active mode and 200nA in sleep mode At m e l s B l u e t o o t h SMART solution is packaged in a 22 x 21 millimeter wafer level chipscale package enabling designers to build ultra small industrial designs for next generation connected IoT and wearable applications The new platform is compatible with Atmels flagship Studio 7 an integrated development environment and Atmel Start a web based platform for software configuration and code generation