Monday, September 8th 2008
Tegra SoC Designs based on GeForce 6 series
Tegra is NVIDIA's System on a Chip (SoC) platform. It takes NVIDIA's supreme expertise in the field of visual computing and architectural finesse to SoC that is projected to have a large market in the near future in several industries, mainly consumer electronics and automobiles. Heavyweights in the automobile industry such as Daimler AG (Mercedes Benz), FIAT Group (Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Fiat, Lancia, Maserati), V.A.G. group (Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Seat, Skoda, VW) have lobbied around the Terga technology to be used to enhance their products.
As automobiles manufacturers venturing into a realm of new technology of compact computing, they would prefer proven and stable technologies from NVIDIA over future tech. For this matter, NVIDIA has derived some versions of the graphics processor part of Tegra on the GeForce 6 series. It makes it fully DirectX 9.0c compatible and capable of running up to three or more displays. Some variants NVIDIA plans to sell V.A.G. group includes a GPU derived from GeForce 9600 GT albeit much lower speeds (since it's not required to work to its potential). Futuremark has already showcased its 3D dashboard software for Audi which could harness the power of Tegra to display a futuristic dashboard panel that provides drivers with information on the car's operation along with maps and guidance in 3D.
Industry sources tell that the next-generation Tegra will add certain features from the GeForce GTX 280, such as full support for CUDA and dual-precision FP64 processing. The hardware is likely to be based on a single 8-shader processor node, which would result in about 30 GFlops of processing power. Expect the GeForce GTX for the automotive industry to arrive as a daughterboard initially.
Source:
TG Daily
As automobiles manufacturers venturing into a realm of new technology of compact computing, they would prefer proven and stable technologies from NVIDIA over future tech. For this matter, NVIDIA has derived some versions of the graphics processor part of Tegra on the GeForce 6 series. It makes it fully DirectX 9.0c compatible and capable of running up to three or more displays. Some variants NVIDIA plans to sell V.A.G. group includes a GPU derived from GeForce 9600 GT albeit much lower speeds (since it's not required to work to its potential). Futuremark has already showcased its 3D dashboard software for Audi which could harness the power of Tegra to display a futuristic dashboard panel that provides drivers with information on the car's operation along with maps and guidance in 3D.
49 Comments on Tegra SoC Designs based on GeForce 6 series
member1: Man have you benched you're Audi yet?
member2: No I just got it in, but i hear they have great ocing capabilities.
member1: Yeah thas what I heard. I know a guy that scored 35999 on 3dmark 2020.
member2: Man I hope I can get that high. And to think, I almost bought a VW.
:rolleyes:
@btarunr
It's not the typo. It's how many times, where and by who those typos were made. You know you deserved a small slap. That "News Editor" on your sig says so. :p
"hehe my car has more ROPs than yours,"
"yeah well mines haz a higher 3dmark score".
"The more complicated they make the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
Captain Scott
just one question, can we run Crysis in the new cars?
Officer - Sir why did you run that traffic light
Driver - Sorry sir, a demon in doom jumped out at me
Officer - That makes the 14th today
spark plugs you see, they need to provide a spark for ignition on every cylinder cycle, for EACH cylinder.
diesels have no spark plugs, except "glow" plugs.
so you see, any car already NEEDS the battery running for most of it's engine duties anyway, especially more modern cars where the engine needs electronic management.
so people saying the dashboard being vulnerable to electrical failure is like ignoring the fact that mechanical failure is more likely.
think about hard drives v's SSD's: the less processes of energy conversion involved the more efficient.
imagine all the mechanical workings behind the dash to make a bunch of needles move, then compare that to a simple electronic wire connection that transmits data from the sensor directly with no coils, gears, cogs,etc
the current dashboard system is a horrendous array of mechanical and pneumatic/hydraulic systems that are far more likely to fail or give error in some way compared to a simple electronic connection to a sensor.
for the people complaining about increased failure possibility with electronic dash's, god help them when the whole drive train goes electronic and we "drive by wire".
Diesels would also fail if there is an EMP blast... every new car produced has some sort of ECU I believe.
The electronic dash is a good thing IMO, much LESS to go wrong than the older electro-pneumatic systems.
On topic: I wonder when we'll see this in everyday normal cars (not supercars or even luxury cars). My guess is ~10 years after Benz adopts it since that's been the trend with most of the new technologies they've been implementing for decades :P
I just had this happen on my 04 Sentra after I replaced the battery and had forgotten to tighten the positive terminal. Ran fine until I shut it off.
Running cars do not shut off if you unhook the battery, unless there is a problem.
This is totally of topic anyway, why are we talking about that?
More on topic, mechanical parts are always more bound to failures than digital ones. Only dissadvantage of digital ones is that they are usually centralised, meaning that you would loose everything. In this case a failure in the Tegra chip could let you without any functionality in the car.
On topic: I agree failure of the chip would affect the car. There are several others on the car that also are this criticial. troubleshooting and repair will be much simpler though, just replace the chip, screen or sensor.