On July 13, NXP Semiconductor (NASDAQ: NXPI) held the press conference at Korea NXP Semiconductors office building to celebrate Vice President and CTO of automotive department, Lars Reger’s visit. Lars Reger currently handles everything the company’s automobile related research development and new businesses.

NXP cooperates with the major companies, Siemens, Harman, Delphi, and Cohda Wireless, and automobile OEM companies about V2X technology. Especially in Korea, it announced joint participation with Essys(CEO Kim Yong-beom) for the first domestic Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems(C-ITS) promoted by MOLIT.

Shin Bak-je, Chairman of NXP Semiconductor, said, “I’m honored that internationally well recognized NXP’s V2X solution, roadlink chipset is selected as MOLIT’s C-ITS. With this demonstration business, I hope NXP to be of help to Korea’s ITS technology development. Through it, I think another accumulated experience will help provide the technology that can create safer, more smooth and pleasant traffic to prevent accidents and protect lives.”




In 2015, NXP Semiconductors took over Freescale of America, and achieved rapid extension of automotive related capability. By combining the fields where the company ranked no. 1 and Freescale’s no. 1 properties, it became global no.1 company in communication processor, broad base MCUs, RF power transistor, secure identification, automotive, and etc.

In automotive field, NXP Semiconductors keeps the fundamental values such as the abundance of the life and securing life and safety with cars, even inputs technology capacity for CO2 reduction by increasing energy efficiency. Especially among them, the security is raising awareness in the industry as the fatal accident recently occurred during Tesla autonomous driving, and the aspect of fundamental automotive value came to the fore.

Autonomous driving can be divided into four levels. Level 1 is defined as driving support, level 2 is defined as partially autonomy (for example: ADAS), level 3 is defined as ordinary autonomy, and level 4 is defined as high level autonomy. In the highest level, level 4 autonomous, it is presupposed that a stage where a driver does not need to bear driving in mind with brain is realized. Therefore, currently it is considered between level 2 to 3. Level 3 itself became a huge mountain to climb.

To realizing autonomous driving, technically high dimensional elements are needed. In NXP Semiconductors, when Secure V2X which ensures security, Sensor Fusion which integrating control various sensors, Ultrasonic which contributes to short range obstacle detection, Lider which makes it possible for commercial use, Camera which secures a wide range of view, and Radar which is more accurate through multi-phases in aspect of distance, are all equipped, it must be the start of autonomous driving.

As well as integrally securing these technical capabilities, completely securing safety becomes a mission to automotive solution vendors. Therefore, NXP Semiconductors achieved securing ISO26262 certification, maintaining non-hacking incidents record so far, and zero-failure and errorless in a dimension of design, and various research developments for minimizing human errors are being proceeded.






In Korea, autonomous driving will become the near future work. V2X technology of NXP Semiconductors that contributes to C-ITS demonstration business raises road safety, reduces CO2 emission, and supports smooth traffic flow as it allows to check the other side of the corner or the front traffic obstacles beyond the driver’s view. According to the National Police Agency, more than 5,000 people die in car accidents every year, and more than 300,000 people are injured. The traffic congestion causes the cost of more than about 31 trillion won. The Korea Transport Institute expects that if C-ITS is completely introduced, it will be possible to reduce about 76% of total traffic accidents.

NXP is already providing V2X solution from various parts of the globe. Recently, it provided intelligent traffic management system to Columbus, Ohio, the US, which is selected in Smart City Challenge by U.S. Department of Transportation. Also, on April, it successfully demonstrated the truck’s autonomous driving by using V2X technology at ‘European Truck Platooning Challenge,’ hosted by Netherland Infra and Department of Environment.

For continuously developing autonomous driving car and macroscopic traffic management, NXP’s roadlink V2X communication and security technology are necessary. This technology allows near cars to exchange information such as speed, location, and direction by wireless, and informs dangers such as traffic control data, speed limitation area, traffic signal, roadwork alert, and danger zones among cars and infrastructures. The security element protects the driver’s privacy from dangers of hacking or manipulation as it is integrated as a part of chipset.

Besides, 77GHz RFCMOS radar was presented for ADAS system. Moreover, a automotive specialized compute unit ‘Bluebox’ solution, which contains capabilities of both super-computing and safe-computing in one unit, also started supply. In aspect of network, the scales of 100Mbps and 1Gbps, which are generally used in PC, are gradually introduced to take charge of explosive network traffic. In addition, the most sophisticated security technology is incorporated in these all the electronics/electrical operation, so it concentrates on preventing damage from hacking.

Meanwhile, NXP Semiconductors develops various activities related to automotive fields. Through smart port, future automobile demo, ADAS live demo, V2X environment based drone integration test, participating in America Smart City Challenge, small car model research in the region, storm bike, and autonomous trunk test operation in Europe, it is building capability and basis for the gradual autonomous driving supply. These know-hows aim for creating global-leveled business through cooperation with partners in Korea. For this reason, the influence of NXP semiconductors’ move to domestic industrial world is permanently in growing trend.



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