Introduction; About The Designcore™ Rvp-Tda3X Development Kit For Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (Adas) - D3 DesignCore RVP-TDA3 Series Quick Start Manual

1.0 Introduction

This Quick Start Guide applies to the following seven D3 Engineering kits: (The features specific to each
kit are detailed later in this section.)
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DesignCore™ RVP-TDA3x Development Kit for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)
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DesignCore™ RVP-TDA3x Development Kit
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DesignCore™ TDA3x Development Kit
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DesignCore™ TDA3x Automotive Starter Kit
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DesignCore™ DM50x Development Kit
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DesignCore™ DM50x Industrial Development Kit
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DesignCore™ DM50x Starter Kit
1.1 About the DesignCore™ RVP-TDA3x Development Kit for Advanced Driver Assistance
Systems (ADAS)
The DesignCore™ RVP-TDA3x Development Kit for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)
from D3 Engineering – also known as the RVP-TDA3x ADAS Development Kit – provides
qualified developers with a fully functioning evaluation platform for on-vehicle testing and
development of ADAS applications, for use primarily in the automotive, transportation, and
material-handling industries.
Built on the DesignCore™ Rugged Vision Platform (RVP) Reference Design with Texas
Instruments TDA3x Automotive Vision Processor, the RVP-TDA3x ADAS Development Kit
shortens development time of vision-based systems. This kit comes ready to use out of the box
and includes processor module, camera modules, display, cables, software, and calibration
tools. Its base support package provides optimized and verified hardware and advanced vision
software frameworks to use as a known-good launch point for design and development. The kit
also includes a single-use sublicense for all Texas Instruments and D3 Engineering firmware and
application code.
Throughout this document, the DesignCore™ RVP-TDA3x Reference Design may be referred to
simply as the RVP-TDA3x system or RVP-TDA3x module. Other kits applicable to this document
may be referred to as the TDA3x system or TDA3x module.
Rugged Vision Platform (RVP) with TI TDA3x Automotive Processor: A rugged development
platform in a finalized product form-factor.
DesignCore™ TDA3x Product Family ▪ Quick Start Guide
Document No. 00C-131 ▪ Version 1.0 ▪ Release Date: 1/17/2019
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