Integrated Device Technology announced a multi-year collaboration with 5G Lab Germany on 5G tactile networks, including the application of IDT technology to enable network-connected autonomous vehicles.
The project extends the Dresden-based lab’s focus on combining 5G technologies with system-transforming applications.
“With Germany’s leadership in the global automotive industry, our lab’s focus on the tactile Internet of Things, and IDT’s low-latency interconnect and market-leading timing portfolio, the key elements are in place to tackle the real-time mission-critical challenges of platforms for the tactile Internet, including autonomous vehicles,” said Gerhard Fettweis, 5G Lab chair and Vodafone chair professor for Mobile Communications Systems. “With the 1 millisecond round trip constraints in 5G deployments, we need low-latency computing platforms for vehicles, base station and edge computing servers. This project will explore connecting the requisite high-performance computing nodes through the deployment of IDT RapidIO technology and associated timing products.”
The collaboration will build on IDT’s recently announced RXS family of 50 Gbps RapidIO products, as well as computing appliances under development by IDT partners in the Open Compute Project’s (OCP) High-Performance Computing group. The OCP’s projects support heterogeneous computing between x86, ARM, Power Architecture, GPU and FPGAs.