PUBLIC

VICE PRESIDENT & GENERAL MANAGER

I.MX APPLICATION PROCESSOR PRODUCT LINE

RON MARTINO

EMBEDDED PROCESSORS FOR FUTURE APPLICATIONS

APRIL 2019

1 COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

"Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for

spreading ideas that work." --Seth Godin

FD-SOI is a technology platform

enabling innovation for edge computing

2 COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

3 COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

The AI / IoT Era Will Create New Industry Leaders

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Mainframe Mini-Computer PCs Cell Phones AI / IoT

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Edge

Processing

Machine

Learning

Connected

Data

“The 4th Tectonic Shift in Computing”

Securi

ty

* Source: Jefferies

4 COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

SCALABILITY OF EMBEDDED PROCESSING

28 FD SOI PLATFORM

PUBLIC

Ultra-low Power

Dynamic & Static

Common IP with i.MX

ARM Cortex M7 + 2D

Large OCRAM

i.MX 8

i.MX 8X

i.MX RT

i.MX 7

5 COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

i.MX 7 ULP

Ultra Low Power processing for use cases

demanding long battery life

• Heterogeneous architecture

• IP selection

• Low Power SW enablement

• FD-SOI 28nm Process Technology

6 COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

High Performance & Longer Battery Lifetime with FD-SOI Technology

Arm Cortex® - A7 +

Cortex® - M4

Longer battery

life @ same

speed

Batte

ry D

rain

Faster speed

Same battery life

> 10x

Speed

7 COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

Leveraging Biasing for Next Generation Applications

• Vdd Overdrive Only

• SOG Global Body Biasing

• Independent Domain Body Biasing

• On Chip Memory Array Body Biasing

• Assymetric Device Body Biasing

• Mixed Vt Common Well Body Biasing

8

Advanced Real-time

Edge Computing

9

i.MX RT Series

• High data volume and sensors traffic-

pushing more processing to the edge

• Consumers expect smartphone-like GUI

experience

• Need for GHz Application Processors, eg: ARM®

Cortex®-A performance, at Cortex-M cost & power

consumption

The New Normal – Crossover Processors

• Industries 1st Crossover processor

• Record breaking MCU performance

• Application Processor integration in an MCU

• MCU with a true high performance DSP core

1010

Breaking the ‘GHz’ Barrier – i.MX RT1100 MCUsCoreMark® > 5000

GHz Performance

Auto & Industrial Grade

Secure Boot, PUF

On-the-fly Crypto

Tamper Detect

Low Power 28 FD-SOI

TSN, Hi-Perf Analog

Cortex-M7

Up to 1GHz

Cortex-M4

Up to 400MHz

Secure Resource Controller

Cortex-M7 Cortex-M4

Overdrive Voltage Underdrive

1 GHz

1111

Extreme Real-Time Response with i.MX RT & Zephyr OS

High performance with secure, open-source, comprehensive RTOS (e.g. Zephyr)

will enable IoT systems of the future

147

73

37

22

16 15

6

Thread Creation Time Thread Join Time Context Switching Time Thread Lock Time Memory HeapAllocation

Thread Unlock Time Memory HeapDeallocation

A7 @ 600MHz (Linux)

i.MX RT @ 600MHz (Zephyr RTOS)

i.MX RT @ 1GHz (est.)

> 9x> 3x

> 12x> 8x

> 80x faster

> 40x

> 20x

Faster / higher is better

12

Machine Learning at the Edge

1313

• TensorFlow Lite

• Arm CMSIS-NN

• eIQ-CML with OpenCV for classical ML algorithms

• NXP-designed accelerator for DSP Functions

• 5-10x faster for Matrix, FIR, Convolution, Correlation ops

• 15x faster running CMSIS-DSP library for FFT / IFFT

• DSP Tensilica HiFi 4 @ 600MHz for Natural Language

• Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE) for Sigmoid transfer

function – accelerating wake-word

• Arm v8-M feature - tightly couples co-processor to the M33 core

• Faster execution than instruction extensions

• Maintains ecosystem and toolchain compatibility

i.MX RT600 Crossover

Cortex-M33

RAMTCM

PowerQuad

Arm Co-processor

Interface

Tensilica HiFi 4

DSP core with TIE

Security

NXP co-processors

ML Acceleration with Co-Processors & DSP Extensions

Designed to unlock the

potential of voice-

assisted end nodes

14 COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

HMI, Vision, Audio and Voice Enabled with i.MX

DSP, Vision Acceleration, Real Time Domain, Safe Camera/Display/Audio, Simplified eCockpit

New Connectivity & Headless Optimization

8DXL / SXL

i.MX 8 and 8X Subsystem ReuseScalability of Embedded Processing for Automotive & Industrial Applications

PUBLIC 15

Edge Computing in Industrial Environments

Basler I.MX8 - Embedded Vision Kit

COMPANY PUBLIC 16

2 Independent Operating Systems with thin Hypervisor (Xen) or NO Hypervisor

i.MX 8 & 8X

i.MX 8 and 8X Hardware Virtualization & SafetySafe Display, Camera, Audio & User Monitoring

COMPANY PUBLIC 17

i.MX 8X Strongly Positioned in Multiple Auto Applications

17

In Vehicle

Monitors• Driver Monitoring,

HMI

Parking

Camera• Safe processing &

machine learning

• i.Mx SoC for

integration in

headunit

V2X• Modem, Processor, SW, Security

• #1 Leader with scalable processing

18 COMPANY CONFIDENTIALPUBLIC

Scalable Solutions

Lowest Leakage Memories

Real Time & General Compute

Leadership Thru Body Biasing

Best Dynamic & Static Power

Enabling Edge Compute

19 COMPANY CONFIDENTIALPUBLIC

The Future of Embedded Processing Enabled by FD SOI

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