Omnivision, Broadcom and Freescale Collaborate on Automotive 360deg Camera

PR Newswire: Broadcom, Freescale Semiconductor, and OmniVision announced a jointly developed 360-degree surround view parking assistance system – the world's first Ethernet-based parking assistance solution.

• Omnivision supplied the OV10630's 720p color HDR SoC with fully processed YUV output format.
• Freescale brought to the plate its Qorivva MPC5604E 32-bit microcontroller with MJPEG encoding engine
• Broadcom contributed the newly announced BCM89810 100Mbps Ethernet PHY.

"Despite the recession and delayed model cycles, reports are projecting up to 90 million parking and driver assist systems will be deployed by 2018," said Kevin Mak, automotive industry analyst for Strategy Analytics.