Enabling voice activation, bluetooth, and USB connections in automotive interior systems, the Automotive Electronics Council (AEC) Q-100 qualified i.MX31C 32-bit processor features a 400 MHz ARM11-36 core. The chip has a 3D graphics processor, a hardware image processing unit, a CMOS/CCD camera interface, a vector floating point co-processor, and a smart DMA controller.

The MCU is a key part of the Ford/Microsoft SYNC in-car communication and entertainment system and can encode MPEG4 and H.263 VGA at 30 f/s. It comes in a 473 MAPBGA, 0.8 mm pitch package, and operates at -40¡ã to 85¡ã C.

The IC¡¯s system parallelism, accomplished via a 6 x 5 crossbar switch, nearly eliminates wait states and enables the processor to drive performance equivalent to processors with clock speeds up to 3 GHz, but without the power consumption.