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OAX8000 Dedicated Driver Monitoring System ASIC with Integrated AI Neural Processing Unit, Image Signal Processor and DDR3 Memory
Camera Video Processor
  • SKU
    OAX8000-U96G-1A-Z

OMNIVISION’s OAX8000 is an AI-enabled, automotive application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) optimized for entry-level, stand-alone driver monitoring systems (DMS). The OAX8000 uses a stacked-die architecture to provide on-chip DDR3 SDRAM memory (1GB). It also integrates a neural processing unit (NPU) and image signal processor (ISP), which provides dedicated processing speeds up to 1.1 trillion operations per second for eye gaze and eye tracking algorithms. These fast processing speeds with 1K MAC of convolutional neural network (CNN) acceleration, along with integrated SDRAM, enable the lowest power consumption available for DMS systems—the OAX8000 and OMNIVISION automotive image sensor consume just 1 watt in typical conditions, combined. This integration also reduces the board area for the engine control unit (ECU).

The OAX8000’s on-chip NPU is supported by the popular TensorFlow, Caffe, MXNet and ONNX tool chains. Additionally, this ASIC embeds quad Arm® Cortex® A5 CPU cores with Neon™ technology for accelerated video encoding/decoding and on-chip video analytics algorithms, along with hardware for image processing, video encoding and RGB/IR processing. Its high dynamic range (HDR) processing capability allows the ASIC to accept input from RBG/IR image sensors and support high quality output, for videos taken during the day or at night, in conditions with widely contrasting bright and dark images. The integrated video encoder accepts up to 5 megapixel captures from OMNIVISION’s automotive image sensors, and outputs up to 2K resolution video at 30 frames per second (fps).

Boot-up time for the OAX8000 is significantly faster than its nearest competitor. This rapid startup eliminates any delay between ignition and activation of the DMS camera. Additionally, it supports secure boot features to provide cybersecurity.

Arm® and Cortex® are the registered trademarks of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the US and/or elsewhere. NEON™ is the trademark of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the US and/or elsewhere.

General features
– Highly integrated, extreme low power and fast boot up AI video processor with neural network (CNN) accelerator

Camera interfaces
– MIPI receiver: one 4-lanes, two 2-lanes
– Supports up to 5MP image sensor
– SCCB master to access image sensor

Image signal processor
– RGB-Ir processing
– HDR processing
– Dual-sensor 12-bit RAW to YUV processing
– Adjustable AEC/AGC, AWB, and auto focus
– Color correction/adjustment, gamma correction, and contrast adjustment
– 16×16 zone lens shading correction and online color shading correction
– Lens distortion and perspective correction
– Defective pixel correction
– Mirror and flip
– Supports up to 4x digital zoom
– 3D/2D de-noise filter

Video engine
– Supports single-stream video recording with a maximum resolution of up to 5 megapixels
– Supports dual-video-stream recording with one 4 megapixels stream and one 2 megapixels stream
– Rate control to support variable and constant bit rates

Video processing
– Cropping and scaling
– De-warping and rotation

Video analytics
– Built-in advanced motion-detection engine
– Built-in object tracking accelerator

Neural network accelerator
– 1K MAC NPU
– Pixel processor (SIMD) for pixel processing in CNN inference layer, and control of neural processing unit

USB device
– USB 2.0 HS/FS device controller

Display interface
– Supports MIPI two-lane transmitter
– Supports on-screen-display (OSD) and scaling functions

Still picture
– Supports still picture capture up to 5 megapixels
– Supports still picture compression

Storage interfaces
– One storage I/O peripheral interface, that can be used for an external WiFi module
– One storage card peripheral interface
– NAND flash parallel interface for 8-bit and 16-bit, with up to 8-bit BCH ECC
– NAND flash serial interface, with or without ECC engine

Security engine
– Supports AES/DES/3DES encryption/decryption
– Supports secure boot

Embedded microcontrollers
– Quad core ARM® Cortex® A5, each with NEON® and FPU, 32KB I-cache, 32KB D-cache

DDR-SDRAM controller
– DDR3L 16-bits wide

Miscellaneous
– UART, timers, watchdog timer, general-purpose I/O, JTAG

  • Spec
    OAX8000-U96G-1A-Z
  • Operating Temperature
    -40°C to +125°C
  • Package
    BGA
  • Package Dimensions
    10 x 10 mm
  • Use Case
    Sensing Applications - Driver Monitoring System, Sensing Applications - In-Cabin Monitoring System (RGB-IR)