STDA054 October   2026 TDA54-Q1

 

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  2.   Abstract
  3.   Trademarks
  4. 1Introduction
    1. 1.1 Zonal Architectures
  5. 2Network Processing Accelerator (NPAC)
    1. 2.1 NPAC Architecture
    2. 2.2 NPAC Use Case Examples
    3. 2.3 NPAC Features and Benefits
  6. 3Summary

Abstract

New vehicle architectures and technologies such as software-defined vehicles and autonomous driving require a fundamental redesign of the electrical and electronic (E/E) architecture—shifting from highly distributed to domain-based, zonal-based, or hybrid approaches. These new architectures significantly increase the performance and security requirements of the vehicle network. The most efficient way to address these increased requirements is through dedicated hardware-based accelerators such as Texas Instruments (TI) Network Processing Accelerator (NPAC). TI’s NPAC offloads networking and security tasks from the main compute cores to dedicated hardware accelerators and programmable RISC-V cores.