Automotive Display Controllers

Toshiba's automotive display controllers are designed to provide the capability to display instrument clusters, navigation systems and other in-vehicle applications. The controllers integrate a CPU, a graphics accelerator and a variety of interfaces on one single chip. All of which have the unified memory architecture (UMA).

  • Display controllers available for low-end to high-end applications
  • Integrated ARM Cortex™ and MIPS 64-bit CPU
  • 24-bit color depth plus 8-bit alpha blending
  • Powerful 2D/3D graphics accelerator
  • Controllers with an embedded DRAM eliminate the need for external graphics memory.
  • Distortion correction for fisheye-camera and head-up display
  • Camera/video input with scaler

This figure provides an overview of the Toshiba's automotive display controllers. 

Roadmap

Toshiba will offer a full range of SoC and SiP products, from low end to high end, that incorporate the ARM Cortex™ core.

This figure shows the roadmap of Toshiba's automotive display controllers.

System Organization Example

TX4966 System Organization Example

This is the block diagram of the TX4966.

TMPA970C20 System Organization Example

This is the block diagram of the TMPA970C20.

Automotive Display Controller : TX4966 Demo Video

This video clip introduces you fully-digital instrument panel system uses computer graphics replacing mechanical pointers and bulbs.

This video clip introduces you fully-digital instrument panel system uses computer graphics replacing mechanical pointers and bulbs.

TMPA970C20 and TX4966 Display Capabilities

This figure shows the benefits of using the TMPA970C20 and TX4966.

3D cover flow
  • G1 3D Engine (TX4966), G2-Lite 3D Engine (TMPA970C20)
  • Animation using OpenGL® ES 1.1 and 2.0
  • Mirroring

This figure shows the benefits of using the TMPA970C20 and TX4966.

2D cover flow
  • High-quality motion pictures using Blitting Engine and Transformation Engines
  • Antialiasing

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System Features

Bus Architecture

This figure shows the on-chip bus structure of the Toshiba's automotive display controllers.

Provides high-performance solutions thanks to the graphics accelerator, independent graphics bus and embedded DRAM.

Graphics Engine Overview

This figure depicts the features of Toshiba's 2D graphics engine.

This figure depicts the features of Toshiba's 3D graphics engine.

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Lineup

Feature TX4966XBG-280 TX4964FG-120 TX4961XBG-240
CPU core 64-bit RISC TX49/L4 64-bit RISC TX49/L4 64-bit RISC TX49/H3
Operating frequency 280 MHz 120 MHz 240 MHz
Graphics accelerator 2D/3D (Hardware) 2D (Hardware) 2D (Hardware)
3D graphics OpenGL® ES 1.1 N/A N/A
Camera/video inputs 2 ch 1 ch 1 ch
Display outputs 2 ch 1 ch 1 ch
A/D converters N/A N/A 10-bit × 8-ch
CAN controllers 4 ch 2 ch 3 ch
MediaLB® Available N/A Available
External memory SDRAM N/A DDR1 (512 MB max)
On-chip memory SDRAM 8 MB SDRAM 4 MB N/A
Package PBGA456 LQFP176 PBGA456
Operating temperature range -40℃ to 85℃ -40℃ to 85℃ -40℃ to 85℃
Feature TMPA970C20
[Under Development]		 TMPA972C20
[Under Development]
CPU core ARM Cortex™-A9 Dual Core ARM Cortex™-A9 Dual Core
Operating frequency 336 MHz 336 MHz
Graphics accelerator 2D/3D (Hardware) 2D/3D (Hardware)
3D graphics OpenGL® ES 2.0 OpenGL® ES 2.0
Camera/video inputs 2 ch Analog 4 ch
Digital 1 ch
Display outputs 2 ch 1 ch
A/D converters N/A 10-bit × 15-ch
CAN controllers 3 ch 2 ch
MediaLB® Available N/A
External memory DDR2 (512 MB max) N/A
On-chip memory 2 MB 2 MB + DDR2 256 MB
Package PBGA516 PFBGA541
Operating temperature range -40℃ to 85℃ TBD

Product Introduction

Automotive Display Controller: TX4964FG-120

  • 2D graphics accelerator
  • On-chip eDRAM
  • Reduced board assembly cost due to the QFP package

Features

  • CPU: 64-bit TX49/L4 core; 120 MHz
    • No floating-point unit
  • 4-Mbyte eDRAM
  • Graphics display controller with per-pixel alpha-blending
    • 32-bit RGB alpha plane ×2
      8-bit CLUT plane ×2
      4-bit CLUT plane ×1
  • 2D graphics accelerator
    • Blit engine with alpha blending
      Rotation engine
      Transformation engine
  • Camera/video frame grabber
    • RGB/YCbCr input interface
  • Peripheral modules
    Communication modules:
    • 2-channel full-CAN controller (TXCAN; two sets of 16 mailboxes)
    • SPI (SEI) master/slave module with FIFOs
    • SIO/UART with FIFOs
    • 1-channel I2C module
    • 2-channel I2S module
    System control:
    • 24-bit RTOS system timer
    • Watchdog timer
    • 3-channel 16-bit PWM timer
    • 3-channel 16-bit timer
  • Package: LQFP-176-2424-0.5

This is the block diagram of the TX4964FG-120 Automotive Graphics Controller. 

Automotive Display Controller: TX4966XBG-280

  • 2D/3D graphics accelerator
  • On-chip eDRAM
  • Dual video inputs and outputs

Features

  • CPU: 64-bit TX49/L4 core; 280 MHz
  • 8-Mbyte eDRAM
  • 2-channel graphics display controller (GDC) with per-pixel alpha-blending
    • 32-bit RGB alpha plane ×5
    • RGB/RSDS/APIX® output interface
  • 2D/3D graphics accelerator
    • 3D graphics core
    • Blit engine with alpha blending
      Rotation engine with alpha blending
      Transformation engine with alpha blending
  • 2-channel camera/video frame grabber
    • RGB/YCbCr/APIX® input interface
  • Peripheral modules
    Communication modules:
    • 4-channel full-CAN controller (TXCAN; four sets of 32 mailboxes)
    • 4-channel SPI (SEI) with FIFOs
    • 2-channel SIO/UART with FIFOs
    • 1-channel I2C module
    • 2-channel I2S module
    • MOST MediaLB® interface
    System control
    • 24-bit RTOS system timer
    • Watchdog timer
    • 10-channel 16-bit PWM timer
    • 8-channel 16-bit timer
  • Package: PBGA456-2727-1.00

This is the block diagram of the TX4966XBG-280 Automotive Graphics Controller.

Automotive Display Controller: TMPA970C20 [Under Development]

  • High performance CPUs (1680MIPS)
  • Advanced 3D graphics accelerator

Features

  • CPU: ARM Cortex™-A9 Dual Core
    • Operating Frequency: 336 MHz
  • DDR2 memory controller
  • GDC with Alpha
    • 4 Layers
    • Dual display outputs (Digital RGB)
  • 2D graphics accelerator
    • Blit,Transformation,Rotation
  • 3D graphics accelerator (OpenGL® ES 2.0)
  • Camera / Video inputs
    • RGB/ITU-R656
    • Frame Grabber × 2
  • Peripherals
    • 3-channel Full-CAN (TXCAN, 3 × 32 mailboxes)
    • 5-channel SPI
    • 6-channel SIO/UART
    • 4-channel I2C/8-channel I2S
    • MOST MediaLB® interface
    • 1-channel USB Host
    • 8-channel 16-bit PWM timer
  • Package:PBGA516-2727-1.00

This is the block diagram of the TMPA970C20 Automotive Graphics Controller [Under Development].

Automotive Display Controller: TMPA972C20 [Under Development]

  • High performance CPUs (1680MIPS), 840 MIPS (336 MHz)×2
  • Advanced 3D graphics accelerator
  • SRAM and DDR2 SDRAM Memories in Package.

Features

  • CPU: ARM Cortex™-A9 Dual Core
    • Operating Frequency: 336 MHz
  • 3D graphics accelerator (G2 Lite)
    • API: OpenGL® ES 2.0
    • 33 M polygons/sec, 264 M pixels/sec @132 MHz
  • 2D graphics accelerator
    • Rotation, Transformation
  • LCD controller
    • 4 Layers, 1280 x 720
  • Embedded memory
    • 256-Mbyte DDR2 SDRAM
      with x32 bit data bus, Operating Frequency: 264 MHz
    • 2-Mbyte SRAM
  • Video interface
    • Input:4-channel Video SW (4 to 1 CVBS) with PAL/NTSC decoder
      R656
      Video capture: 2-channel
    • Output: Digital RGB
  • Audio interface
    • Input:I2S x1
      Analog audio from MIC (mono)
    • Output:I2S x1
      Analog audio : 3-channel (mono & stereo)
    • SRC: in: 8 k to 48 kHz, out: 44.1 k or 48 kHz
  • 1-seg interface (T.B.D)
    • Input: TS (CLK, DATA, EN)
  • Peripherals
    • USB 2.0 (Host)
    • SD x2: SDHC support
    • CAN x2: up to 1 Mbps, with Transceiver (1-channel)
    • SPI x4, UART x6, I2C x2, PWM x6, GPIO x36 ‥ multiplexed
  • Package:PFBGA541-2222-0.65AF

This is the block diagram of the TMPA972C20 Automotive Graphics Controller [Under Development].

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