Dream Chip shows ADAS processor on FDSOI

Dream Chip Technologies GmbH (Hanover, Germany) has developed the first chip to be manufactured in the 22FDX 22nm FDSOI manufacturing process of Globalfoundries Inc. It plans to show the chip at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

Peter Clarke , Feb. 27, 2017 – 

The chip is an Advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) computer vision SoC developed under the auspices of the European Things2Do project in cooperation with ARM, Arteris, Cadence, Globalfoundries and Invecas. The chip was manufactured at Fab 1, Dresden Germany where Globalfoundries hosts its FDSOI manufacturing.

Dream Chip is a design service company specialized in the development of ASICs, FPGAs, embedded software and systems with a strong application focus on automotive vision systems. The company is the result of more than 20 years of endeavour having been founded as Sican by the government of lower Saxony in 1990. In 2000 it was acquired by Infineon Technologies and operated as Sci-worx. It was then bought by Silicon Image before a management buy-out in 2010 and a name change to Dream Chip Technologies.

The chip the team has developed is intended for high performance image acquisition and supports convolutional neural network (CNN) vision workloads for object detection and identification. It supports road-sign detection, lane departure warning, driver distraction warning, blind spot detection, surround vision, park assist, pedestrian detection, cruise control and emergency braking.

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