OLEA U310, a single-chip solution from Silicon Mobility, revolutionizes energy management and powertrain control in electric vehicles while cutting design costs.
One of the primary obstacles still facing electric vehicles (EVs) is their high initial cost. It is resolved by Silicon Mobility, an Intel company, with the introduction of the OLEA U310 system-on-a-chip (SoC). This technology expands services across platforms for EV stations, streamlines design, and improves EV performance.
It combines hardware and software, revolutionising powertrain control with up to 5% efficiency improvement. The solution complements Intel Automotive’s AI-enhanced SoCs, advancing the industry toward an all-electric future.
A single OLEA 310 FPCU can take the role of up to six conventional microcontrollers in an EV because to its innovative hybrid and heterogeneous architecture, which controls a variety of functions. Real-time control of both energy and power functions is made possible by this invention.
Initial data shows notable advantages:
- Improvements in energy efficiency of up to 5%
- 25% reduction in motor size
- Compared to contemporary EVs, 35% less cooling requires 30 times the shrinking of passive components.
These benefits enable EV producers to create software-defined cars with improved efficiency and range at reduced manufacturing costs.
The new offering supports the industry’s transition to an all-electric and software-defined future by enhancing Intel Automotive’s current line of AI-enhanced SDV SoCs.
Intel announced plans to acquire Silicon Mobility, a company that specializes in sophisticated EV energy management SoCs, at CES earlier this year. This acquisition fits well with Intel’s plan to apply AI to the whole automobile industry.
Recent addition to Silicon Mobility’s FPCU lineup is the OLEA U310. It is designed to satisfy the need for distributed software powertrain domain control in electrical/electronic designs. It has a special hybrid and heterogeneous design with configurable processing and control units included in both hardware and software.
This concept surpasses the capabilities of typical microcontrollers by seamlessly integrating cybersecurity and functional safety. It hosts and bridges important event-based multi-function control requirements with time-based and multi-task software application needs in a single chip.
