Austin, Texas – To solidify its strong position in solutions for the autonomous vehicles/advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) market, Freescale Semiconductor has purchased Ottawa, Canada-based CogniVue Corp., a developer of image cognition for automotive and consumer applications.
Freescale has developed sensor, microcontroller, and microprocessor solutions for automotive radar and vision applications. The company has shipped more than 20 million units into ADAS applications to date, and has designs in nine of the world’s top 10 automotive OEMs.
To further fuel this growth, speed time to market and deliver even more automotive innovation for the world’s top carmakers and their suppliers, Freescale is bringing CogniVue’s advanced vision IP development capabilities and world-class R&D resources in-house.
“The acquisition of CogniVue accelerates our autonomous vehicles portfolio with leading-edge vision processing IP,” says Bob Conrad, senior vice president and general manager of Freescale’s Automotive MCU group. “With the exceptional market response to our S32V234 vision processor, as well as demand for our next generation vision solutions, this acquisition places Freescale in a position to supply highly automated car applications with the requisite performance, safety, security, and reliability those systems require.”
CogniVue vision processing IP is already available in multiple Freescale products, including the S32V processor announced in March 2015, as well as other offerings.
Source: Freescale Semiconductor