Freescale Semiconductor is collaborating with Neusoft Corporation and Green Hills Software to establish an Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
(ADAS) ecosystem designed to dramatically speed and simplify the creation of next-generation automotive vision applications.
The solution integrates CogniVue Corporation’s APEX Image Cognition Processing (ICP) IP, available from Freescale, with “silicon-aware” software from Neusoft’s ADAS vision applications, and the safety certified INTEGRITY® operating system and MULTI® tool chain from Green
Hills Software.
APEX processor technology enables extraction of application-specific information from a scene and interprets the image data to make decisions or take actions based on the extracted data. Freescale licensed
CogniVue’s APEX-642 ICP core IP in 2012 and is the exclusive provider of this technology to the automotive market.
The result of the three firms’ collaboration is a comprehensive off-the-shelf ADAS vision solution built on an ISO 26262 ASIL assessed software foundation. Specific applications include pedestrian detection, traffic sign
recognition, collision avoidance and other advanced ADAS capabilities.