Multi-Channel (5) PMIC for Automotive Radio Applications – 3 LVBUCK and 1 LDO
One-Chip Solution for Radio and Audio Processing
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The SAF9000 is an automotive radio and audio single-chip solution enabling car infotainment for the software-defined car. It includes five built-in tuners for multistandard analog and digital radio processing, two advanced audio processing cores, an embedded MCU and comprehensive connectivity including PCIe and Gbit-Ethernet. Based on a new software control approach, the SAF9000 covers worldwide radio and audio requirements for vehicles with a single hardware variant.
The SAF9000 hardware and enablement (documentation, software and boards) are available for selected customers with an approved NDA. For additional information and availability, contact support or your local sales representative.
Product Details
Block Diagram
Features
Radio
- Support of all major analog and digital broadcast standards like AM, FM, DAB, DAB+, DMB, HD Radio®, DRM for AM, DRM for FM (DRM+) and CDR
- Single hardware variant covering all standard radio use cases (incl. PD and MRC)
- Unique wideband tuner concept receiving full bands
- Five built-in tuners
- Number of tuners and radio standards controlled via software
Advanced Audio
- Two high performance floating-point audio DSPs (HiFi5) on board (incl. neural network accelerators)
- Broad range of audio algorithms via vast 3rd party eco-system
- High number of integrated sample rate converters
- 12 audio ADCs (configurable)
- ASIL A audio support
- Fully programmable digital audio input/output port to support a large variety of digital audio interface formats
- Support of DSP Concepts® Audio Weaver® Tool
Connectivity
- Two general-purpose SPI ports
- PCIe 3.1 compliant interface (data rate support of 2.5 Gb/s and 5.0 Gb/s)
- 2nd PCIe interface or Gbit Ethernet SGMII interface (supporting 100BASE-T1 and 1000BASE-T1 PHY)
Package
- 9 x 9 mm package
Control
- Integrated Arm® Cortex® M7 core for tuner and audio control middleware (radio control unit RCU)
