Welcome to the next generation
AURIX™ TC4x
Thomas Boehm, Senior Vice President Automotive Microcontroller
12 January 2022
1TriCore™ is the trusted choice for Automotive, with shipments toexceed 1 Billion Units by end of 2022
The TriCore™ concept was born in 1999
TriCore™ integrates three functions: DSP, RISC & MCU
The success story started in Powertrain and spread to the entire automotive MCU market

AUDO 11999
1st TriCore™

AUDO NG
thenFuture

AUDO
MAX

AURIX™
TC2x

AURIX™
TC3x

2005

2011

2014

2018

AURIX™
TC4x2021
1st silicon!!

845,000,000 TriCore™ shipped to date including >320,000,000 AURIX™
2022-01-12

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What does the future car need?
Headroomto grow› OEMs and Tier 1's need performance headroom
for future upgrades

High Performancewith AI› More performance needed for mobility andautonomous driving› AI is needed to enable this transformation

New E/Earchitecture› The E/E architecture will change to reduce complexity› Resulting in adoption of zone based architectures

Fully connected› The future car is fully connected and always online

Performance
Fast Timeto Market2022-01-12› Technology is changing fast, the market must respondfaster than ever before

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The AURIX™ TC4x meets these future needs and more, providing theindustries most extensive major upgrade path for auto MCUs

Whilst ensuring
dependability
2022-01-12

Headroomto grow› Feature rich to offer applications headroom to grow› Scalable family HW and SW concept for platform reuseHigh Performancewith AI› More processing power from TriCore™v1.8 with
virtualization support and new AURIX™ Accelerator Suite› Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) for affordable AI

New E/Earchitecture› Optimized devices for Zone and Domain control,› Optimized devices for complex sensor and actuator control

Fully connected› Enhanced connectivity, new high speed interfaces› Data Routing Engine for efficient communication› Faster cloud connection and crypto agility for SOTA

Fast Timeto Market› Seamless "Ease of Use" tool chain and software offering› Model based design support for rapid prototyping› Early development support based on virtual prototyping

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AURIX™ TC4x extends a proven architecture with a rich set of newfeatures, furnishing the headroom needed for future growth
Headroomto grow2022-01-12

More Performance…

Enhanced TriCore™ v1.8, Up to 6 CPUs, up to 500 MHz
New! AURIX™ Accelerator Suite

More Memory…

Upto 25 MB on chip-flash

More Safety and Security

Security according to ISO21434,
ISO26262-2018 compliance for Safety to ASIL-D
New! CSRM and CSS security modules

More Real time control…

New! eGTM timers, High Resolution PWMs
New! Low latency interconnect (LLI) to PPUMore Connectivity…

New! 5 Gbps Ethernet, PCIe ,10 Mbit T1S Base Ethernet and CAN-XL
New! Data Routing Engine accelerator

More Freedom from interference

New! TriCore™ v1.8 with upto 8 Virtual Machines per Core and Hypervisor
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5But a car is still a car. It must be robust, reliable, available, safe andsecure, this is what Infineon calls dependability
RobustReliable

Available

Safe

AURIX™
history› AURIX™ TC3x is ultimate benchmark in robustness› Trusted automotive partner with Long-term commitment› Holistic architecture based on deep application know-how

AURIX™
safety features› AURIX™ TC4x safety concept built on proven AURIX™ TC3xx› Strong feature reuse from TC3xx› New features are optimised for enhanced safety

AURIX™
implementsindustrystandards› New cybersecurity modules meet the new ISO 21434 standard› Safety up to ASIL-D according ISO26262-2018 Standard

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High Performancewith AI

Upgraded
TriCore™
New TriCore™ v1.8
Up to 500 MHz
60% more ASIL-D
performance

AURIX™
Accelerator Suite
Parallel Processing Unit: PPUUp to 78 times more performance1TriCore™ and AURIX™ Accelerator Suitecombine to deliver a major performance
upgrade of up to 3 times vs. AURIX™
TC3xx
Whilst maintaining safe and secure real timeperformance

Data Routing Engine: DRE
Up to 50% more performance1
Signal Processing Unit: SPU
Up to 4 times more performance2
CSRM / CSS
Up to 8 times more performance2

1 vs. TriCore™ v1.8
2 vs. AURIX™ TC3xx
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Why are AI capabilities important?
New use cases for low-power AI are emergingHigh Performancewith AI

Automotive AI Use Cases
Artificial Intelligence& Neural Networks

Domain/Zone Control› Modelling› Model Predictive Control› IDPS & other security methods
ADAS› Object classification› Advanced Radar Signal Processing› Sensor Fusion
xEV Applications› Predictive Control› Virtual Sensing› Advance State of Health (SoH) and State of Charge (SoC) algorithms

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High Performancewith AI

Parallel Processing Unit:
PPU
SIMD Vector DSP for AI

Dedicatedresource for AI

PPU Compute Cluster
Scalar Core...offering
affordableintelligence

SIMD Core

L1 Memory
System Components
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SIMD vector DSP (VDSP)

Parallel Processing Unit:
PPU
SIMD Vector DSP for AI
PPU Compute Cluster
Scalar Core

Optimize performance / cost for various neuralnetwork architectures
Up to 78x more performance vs TriCore™ v1.8
dependent on the algorithm

SIMD Core

L1 Memory
System Components

AURIX™ TC4x offers scalable PPU portfolio

DMA, Shared Memory

Integrate more sophisticated functions per ECU

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The E/E architecture will change and zone architectures will become
more widely adopted
New E/Earchitecture

4 key requirementsof zone control

AURIX™ offers…

Higher Performanceand versatility› Up to 6 new TriCore™ v1.8
› Up to 5 application specific accelerators to offload
TriCore for optimal efficiency

Safety and Security› Support of latest safety & security standards› Security cluster minimizes latency, maximize
throughput and enables SOTA

Freedom ofinterference› Hypervisor enables separation and isolation› TriCore™ v1.8 with Hypervisor Mode
› Up to 8 Virtual Machines per TriCore™

Richer connectivity› New high speed comms interfaces plus legacy
automotive busses› Communications accelerator for fast processing
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Provide hard realtime
performance for safety critical
SW with safe isolation

Provide cost effective solutionthat still functions with legacy
sensors & actuators

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The future car has a hierarchical network and is always connected tocloud services
Fully connected

AURIX™ Accelerator Suite TC4xx DRE/CRE Routingaccelerators› Reduces SW processing load of data transmission› Increases performance and throughput by up to 50% vs
TriCore™ by reducing routing latency and jitter

TC4xx Ethernet MACs and Ethernet bridge› Performance & redundancy for safety critical application indaisy chain & ring topologies

reduces communicationload on CPUs andenables safety criticalreal time communication

NEW! Scalable high speed communication interfaces› 5 Gbps Ethernet and PCIe
› Support for new communication standards, 10 Mbit
› T1S Base Ethernet and CAN-XL
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The infrastructure is in place to get started with AURIX™ TC4x using
either simulation
Fast Timeto Market

Synopsys offers an AURIX™ TC4x Virtual Prototype (VP) in the Synopsys
Virtualizer Development Kit

Start development independent of HW availability

Address new automotive use cases in AI and xEV and improve SW quality

Developed in co-operation with software & tool partners, consists of several independentinteroperable packages, including the PPU toolchain

Enables ease of use and fast TTM

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13Or using first silicon, with the MetaWare for AURIX™ Development kit
Fast Timeto Market

The Synopsys ARC MetaWare Toolkit for AURIX™ TC4x SDK enables thosewishing to start development with AURIX™ TC4x silicon
Basic SW Ecosystem› Auto code generation via model based design and auto vectorization› Compiler supporting C/C++ & OpenCL and debugger› Simulation tools for easy application & kernel developmentxNN SDK for AI flow
› Tool automates & optimizes mapping of neural network models› Reduce computation, memory and bandwidth requirements

HW Optimized libraries› PPU optimized vector library including BLAS/LAPACK› Basic linear algebra subprograms› Linear algebra package
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The AURIX™ TC4x will meet these future needs and more….
providing a major upgrade path for Tier 1's and OEMs
Headroom
to grow

High Performancewith AINew E/E
architecture

AURIX™ TC4x is sampling now to leadcustomers

The Synopsys Virtualizer Development Kit
and ARC MetaWare Toolkit for AURIX™
TC4x are available now

Fully connected

More partner offerings will be sharedover 2022

Whilst ensuring
dependability
2022-01-12

Fast Timeto Market

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