BlueBox 3.0 Automotive High-Performance Compute (AHPC) Development Platform

BlueBox
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The NXP BlueBox development platform provides the necessary performance and functional safety features to build both zonal architectures and high-performance computing systems. BlueBox enables the analyzation of driving environments, including risk factors, for software-defined vehicles and directs the behavior of self-driving cars.

BlueBox 3 family is the latest addition to the series, which incorporates the the Layerscape® LX2160A embedded processor. The LX2160A is pair with the ASIL D ready S32G2 vehicle network processor for automotive service-oriented gateway, domain controller, safety co-processor and expansion options to include additional perception and acceleration solutions.

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Supported Devices

Processors and Microcontrollers

Layerscape Processors

  • LS2084A: Layerscape 2084A and 2044A Multicore Processors
  • LX2160A: Layerscape® LX2160A, LX2120A, LX2080A Processors

S32G Vehicle Network Processors

  • S32G2: S32G2 Processors for Vehicle Networking

Interfaces

Automotive Ethernet Switches

  • SJA1110: Multi-Gig Safe and Secure TSN Ethernet Switch with Integrated 100BASE-T1 PHYs

Features

BlueBox 3.0 Features

  • True automotive embedded platform featuring end-to-end automotive-grade system-on-chip ICs

  • Modular and scalable open platform supporting rich expansion options to prototype various configurations and connections to multiple ECUs and sensors:
    • Up to 6 PCIe® expansion slots
    • Up to 8 Ethernet ports

  • System-level safety implementation with the device-level safety collaterals:
    • ASIL D subsystem, with dedicated interfaces
    • ASIL B compute, automotive interfaces with vision acceleration

  • S32G274A vehicle network processor with ASIL D functional safety
  • High-performance LX2160A automotive processor with 16 Arm® Cortex®-A72 cores
  • SJA1110 automotive Ethernet switch with TSN support
  • 12 V / 24 V vehicle compatible power input
  • 16 GB DDR4 and 256 GB SSD
  • Ethernet 100M/1G/10Gbps, SFP+, 8 x 100BASE-T1, CAN-FD, FlexRay™, 8 x cameras

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