This module is essentially 1 1/2 PS5's worth of GPU processing with a Navi 23. Quite impressive. His claims of being able to play "Cyberpunk" on the Cybertruck are not unrealistic.
28 CUs vs 36 CUs, close but not outcompeting the PS5. It would also be more power constrained than a PS5, further lowering performance. Pretty crazy for a car computer though.
@@axiom1650 I mean, with it being Glycol cooled and linked to a giant battery, there's no reason for it to be as power constrained as you may think. Although it's totally possible I don't know all that much about it
"Engineering sample" - different customs duties, if any, are often levvied on R&D samples, often up to a given annual volume of import in that category.
Wow. So much to digest. I had no idea they had a Ryzen in this thing. All of this really illustrates the generational gap between Tesla and the incumbent auto manufacturers.
The Ryzen machine handles the infotainment. It's certainly more powerful than many manufacturers would use, but from a practicality standpoint, many drivers might prefer to have CarPlay or Android Auto and that type of system has much lower hardware requirements. Many of the more mission-critical components are much older and likely shared across every Tesla model ever made, a practice that reduces the need to test variations in critical components. Also, Elon Musk has talked up the infotainment system and he expected it to be disassembled. Most infotainment systems never get public hardware teardowns.
@@thedevincrutcher there was some information in a press release that a certain german manufacturer uses the snapdragon 820A in its newest models that are currently on sale. The chip is from 2016, and looks to be horribly underpowered, the system is slow as molasses. But it does have CarPlay and Android Auto.
@@HNedel CarPlay and Android Auto only need to decode h.264 stream from phone USB and send touch commands back to phone. It's a bit more complicated for wireless, but still not outrageous. The requirements for it are quite low, even a single-core ARM chip can do it without dropping frames. And for many users, Android Auto and CarPlay are preferred over the cars built-in system because it's a more consistent experience, especially for those who switch cars. It's fundamentally the same in a rental Altima as in an Audi and there is something to be said for that.
Hopefully those little coin cells don't get run down as long as 12v is available! At least they're socketed. It's interesting they didn't socket the NVME - I figured after all the trouble with the Gen1 MCUs they'd have made that easier to service.
As far as I know, they moved everything that's written regularly to the SD card and only keep the software installation and low-traffic stuff like settings on the hard-wired storage.
Yeah, it was the massive logs that wore down the memory chip, it was a small emmc job, probably not rated for endurance. Wonder what will happen when the sd card eventually wears out, if there will be some notification for the user to go to a service center or something
@@HNedel This computer is certainly accessible to the average person. Looks like you could probably split it apart without damaging it. And when he pulled the SD card out I'm pretty sure it had a name brand on it so it's not some custom SD card. There are high endurance SD cards available. I use one in my dash cam because it sees multiple overwrites continuously. But they do eventually fail. Just glad to see that they made it a replaceable part. Be interesting if you did get a message to replace it if you did it yourself would it just automatically detect it or would you still have to go to a service center to have it reset?
Love the design, using one cooling integrated housing to mount the car computer, the graphics card and the FSD computer. So much savings of steps and cost. And love your presentation style too, very similar in excellence to the Tesla design! Lol
Thank you for your great and very informative teardowns. It is very interesting to see the technology and the approach Tesla is using in their cars , compared to legacy car manufacturers. Great design. The EMC requirements for this car computer would be crazy having so many different RF signals on the same board.
This is one more reason for the all-metal enclosure. People keep asking why the (expensive) cast/machined/stamped enclosure when it could be plastic. Especially in the EU, where EMC regs are more strict.
Thanks! Would like to know how it compares to earlier computers. Shame that someone wrecked a Plaid already, but probably not surprising. More money than driving skills or responsibility. EVERYONE WHO VALUES THEIR LIVES, PLEASE go to a high performance driving or racing school to get some driving skills. It can save your life and the lives of your passengers. The best safety system is the driver.
6:45 WOW, an off board Realtek Ethernet controller, I never though one of those existed like without being inside a SoC. Never saw one as a discrete chip before.
No, that 16 GB microSD card is used for logging other things (the other Teslas have a separate microSD card for the same purposes). The eMMC equivalent is the memory chip that he pointed out as being 256 GB at 5 min 30 sec (the Model 3/Y have 64 GB).
@@android04 but it is a good thing that they have switched to basically a normal SSD which can handle the write cycles a lot better than the eMMC memory.
My requests for more details: 1) Weber Auto Channel (Prof. Kelly from Weber State) assembles whole subsystems on a bench. I wish, you did so, too. So for example, you could take the FSD board, then attach the Ethernet cables, all cameras, GPS antenna, power, and the bus wires to the actor ECUs (steering, e-motor controller). And you could stress that all parking sensors and the radar sensor transmit their data via busses to this board via separate ECUs. 2) You could assemble the whole infotainment system: the PCB you showed and then: wireless and bluetooth antenna, USB-C cable to the glovebox, console USB, the 3 displays, (e-call), autopilot computer, diagnostic connector, power cable, CAN busses and all ECUs, speakers, LTE antenna. 3) You probably know those boards with ECU, sensors, actors, power supply on demonstration boards in automotive schools. Something like that would be nice when you explain the systems, each with their ECUs, sensors, actors and power supply and ground. 4) A bus topology view would be very helpful. You can start with the Tesla specific diagnostic link connector, its pinout and then work your way down to the switches (Ethernet and CAN gateway), then busses (BroadR, Ethernet, CAN busses) and then to the ECUs, their attached sensors and attached actors, and LIN busses.
I did this once on the Model 3, see this video: ua-cam.com/video/rDYbvI32OBE/v-deo.html Making youtube videos is a side hobby. Sadly I just can't spend that much time on an ongoing basis.
@@genabuksuet I donated my time to write the comment. He asked for requests for more details from viewers. I answered his questions and made some recommendations. The Weber Auto channel from Prof. John Kelly - even though rooted in transmissions and hybrid drivetrains - is very popular (380.000 subscribers at this time) with his even more educational approach. But Phil is even better regarding the actual electronics and digital details like tracking down ICs and explaining circuits. BTW: I donated money as well in the past to Phil on an ongoing basis. Not a lot. But to show my support. He even asked me for teardown ideas via email.
@@koeniglicher I'm glad to hear you contributed to Phil's channel with more than requests. Weber Auto channel is backed by Weber State University, while Phil is here on his own. He needs our financial support to continue spending his time educating us. I've never come across someone else, who is giving away so much of their knowledge, asking nothing in return. There are only 2 other channels that I know of, sharing similar in-depth details about Tesla. One is EVTV, which pretty much went South after Jack Rickard passed away, the other one is Damien Maguire. Engineerix is presenting his knowledge in a much easier way to consume by people with less of engineering and electronics skills and knowledge, similar to Weber, but much more in-depth from electronics stand point. J. Kelly himself is more of a mechanic and doesn't have deep understanding of electronics, unlike Engineerix. You can't really compare the two.
hahaha you got super awkward at the end my guy you ended it like 20 times hahahahaha I like the actual technical specifications you went over, would love for you to go deeper with the technicals
9:39 What can be the so called "repeater two camera" possible usage? Could there be cameras installed at the corners of the cars, inside the turn signal for example, to help city driving to detect traffic when making a left turn without having the front of the car entering into a traffic lane?.
@@maxmyzer9172 There is another in addition to the backup camera. Nothing has been officially said of it, just observed when the prototype was on display
Why would it. It’s inside the vehicle and no other components inside the car are waterproof. No other vehicle for that matter has waterproofing on their electronic components unpleasant it’s outside
Love your videos! Is there any possibility that you could show the coldplate in a more detailed way? Maybe even cut through it in order to see the fluid flow tubes and turbulators etc. Thank you in advance and keep it up!
@@Ingineerix I know and I definitely would if I had one to trash. I just thought maybe with a bit of luck the one you disassembled might have been broken or needed to be replaced anyway 😉
Could you elaborate on EMI shielding of gaps between the metal enclosure and connectors. Also could you elaborate on the use of different connectors for the redundant autopilot channels. The 2 connectors seem to anchor in rather different ways.
This was a awesome look into the electronics side of Tesla. How many other control modules is there? I remember Sandy Munroe said Tesla uses three to control everything versus Ford using more than 20 small individual modules. Thank you 😊.
The main concept of Car Computer System from Tesla, which are first introduced in M3 - is a mininum quantity of control modules. Most of functions of car is implemented in this computer, and 3 another - VCFRONT, VCLEFT, VCRIGHT. Another is: ABS/ESP, SRS, TPMS. Also, of course, HV Battery has own control system, and Drive Motor(s).
Very nice detailed view on this awesome unit. Modern cars need lots of computing power and have to be easely updateable. Alot of car manufacturers have problems with slow old systems that are build up with many modules throughout the car. Tesla has all the important stuff in one place :)
That computer is mind blowing!!! Fantastic video, very interesting and fascinating! Can't wait to get my Plaid and experience all its ALIEN TECH!! Thank you for the teardown!!!
Help me understand. Is that computer actually mounted on the flat part of the floorboard? That is hard to imaging. Perhaps it is on the part of the footwell I would call the firewall. Or maybe I got it all wrong.
Great info! On the diagonstic connector below the display, does it still have the four CAN bus connections, or is it something different now. Do they use the same 20 pin connector?
Not Navi "YE180FC3T4MFG uses four Zen 1 cores with eight threads and an integrated Vega graphics unit with up to 11 compute units or 704 shader arithmetic units. According to AMD's announcement from June 2021 "
Superb video. How does the fluid move trough cold-plate? The 2 tubes for lilquid cooling are converging in battery cooling system, but no pump in-between apparently. Is there and integrated pump?!
Great video and insight into the Tesla's computer. Any way you could explain in more simpler terms for people who are not so familiar with the tech thanks
the unpolulated camera header could be for the upcoming interior (driver awareness) camera in future revisions of the cars as they become mandatory on self driving enabled cars
Simple question, why is it water cooled? It's a 45Watt Ryzen. That thing would be Ok with a simple air cooler that would weight maybe 1/25th of that block and be more than good enough.
Keep in mind this is also cooling the Autopilot hardware, and this is inside a car cabin which can almost boil water in cars outside in hot climates. Air cooling is not going to cut it if you want it to be reliable.
Could be that they have not finilized the conformal coating at their supplier and/or additional components to release the vehicles to customers sooner citing low likelyhood of water damage. Many manufacturers are making shortcuts right now due to constraints in the supply chain.
@@chouky02 Sealing covers and cable-connectors would be good enough with a pressure relief valve and desiccant to take care of altiude- and temperature-changes, pretty much like for a harddrive. Conformal coating would just be an icing on the cake.
Curious what their assembly yields look like for each of these boards. Is the re-work the responsibility of the board assembly house, or does tesla do that inhouse. used to repair boards a long time ago.
DUDE! I am an ME and I have a huge question. That coldplate / housing core is unbelievable - how is the cooling channel manufactured? The only method I've heard of that would work is either sand cast or salt core die cast, which is wild. Because this looks like one solid piece, it doesn't look like it's been welded back together. Do you still have the housing?
@@jon-williammurphy9780 Sorry, I assumed you were talking about the older computer. I realize it was the new one, yeah, I can't tell how it was done, it's one big casting, so there is some kind of hollow process like you describe.
Video inputs on the dual custom A72 autopilot board - are they T1 ethernet, GSML FPDLink? Also curious we see 2 species of ethernet switch - Realtek + Marvell. A while back Tesla announced they were a starting successor to the twin (1+1 dual simplex?) ARM solution, I'm guessing it will be based on a ARM redundant core automotive processor A76AE or successors maybe? I can picture how such a high availability upgrade PCB could fit neatly into this stackup. Finally, the single central cold plate is a winning architecture with lower cost & weight with higher efficiency - top marks for that and liberal use of T1 GigE.
Is Ingineerix able to restore Supercharging on Flagged vehicles? What is required to restore supercharging on a flagged vehicle? Is it managed from the mothership rather than vehicle side, and could a non flagged module be substituted? More videos when you have time please, so many details I would love to learn about here, that are not covered anywhere else!
Yes, I can restore supercharging on many models after Tesla has turned it off due to salvage status. I have a video that explains how charging works here: ua-cam.com/video/0lxxOsLcNQQ/v-deo.html
@@Ingineerix Is there a listing anywhere that outlines which modules/models you are able to restore supercharging on, and under what specific conditions? Really are great videos I dont think can be found anywhere else, let alone with the amount of technical detail. Thank you for the reply
Of course it's possible, but you are probably looking at millions of dollars in development cost. If you include autopilot, probably on the order of tens of millions, if not over a hundred million at this point. Got your checkbook?
@@Ingineerix i see , so it wouldn't be possible to move a existing system to a more powerful console ? Ie for example upgrading the hardware of a jeep wrangler from a basic quad to a 16core with a better gpu . Same functionality but better spec
@@DALINKUP Of course it's possible, but at what cost? If you are designing a car computer like Tesla did on this one to be manufactured in the millions of units for many years of production you can afford those one-time engineering costs. You as a Jeep owner cannot afford the engineering costs to re-engineer the whole Jeep infotainment system. It's too big of a project for a "one-off". If Stellantis wouldn't do it in the first place, how can just one guy?
@@Ingineerix i see , i didn't know if it was possible just to transfer a existing system to better hardware . But you've made me aware that it would take development . I thought aslong as your using a existing system / do not try and edit or add to it you're just increasing the hardware's power . Kinda like how some people use Chinese oem parts to upgrade existing systems , As alot of Chinese factories haven't got millions to develop parts . They just make the connectivity universal . But thank you for the answer
Electronic components come in various grades, like consumer, industrial, automotive, military and space grade. It is known that the MCU1 suffered from a too small, consumer grade eMMC......so I wonder what grade these are. Also, as you mentioned the replacement cost would be insane, hopefully one day there are shops which can component repair those units.
It connects to Toolbox3 via gigabit BroadRreach (1000BaseT1), so you need a media converter. There is no SIM card, at least in the US, they use an eSIM.
Graphics card is a custom Radeon 6600M Navi 23 👍🏻
Did I miss the description of the autopilot computer?
Wait goddamn. Really?
Shame it can’t mine crypto to pay for its own “fuel”
@@501isa it probably does, but goes into elons wallet.
@@NicMG yeah, cause Elon is only in it for the money.
This module is essentially 1 1/2 PS5's worth of GPU processing with a Navi 23. Quite impressive. His claims of being able to play "Cyberpunk" on the Cybertruck are not unrealistic.
28 CUs vs 36 CUs, close but not outcompeting the PS5. It would also be more power constrained than a PS5, further lowering performance. Pretty crazy for a car computer though.
Good thing we had a gamer to step up and put the hardware into the perspective of a.......gamer.....gee.....thanks.....
@@axiom1650 I mean, with it being Glycol cooled and linked to a giant battery, there's no reason for it to be as power constrained as you may think. Although it's totally possible I don't know all that much about it
@@BenQuigley Fair point, didn't consider that. I'll eat my hat though if it clocks higher than ps5.
How much RAM does it use?
Love your teardowns. Straight to the point and really informative.
"Engineering sample" - different customs duties, if any, are often levvied on R&D samples, often up to a given annual volume of import in that category.
Water cooled car computer. It makes sense, there’s already coolant lines everywhere, but it’s still crazy.
Coolant lines everywhere? I thought Tesla was low maintenance, much simple than ICE car?
Wow. So much to digest. I had no idea they had a Ryzen in this thing.
All of this really illustrates the generational gap between Tesla and the incumbent auto manufacturers.
The Ryzen machine handles the infotainment. It's certainly more powerful than many manufacturers would use, but from a practicality standpoint, many drivers might prefer to have CarPlay or Android Auto and that type of system has much lower hardware requirements. Many of the more mission-critical components are much older and likely shared across every Tesla model ever made, a practice that reduces the need to test variations in critical components. Also, Elon Musk has talked up the infotainment system and he expected it to be disassembled. Most infotainment systems never get public hardware teardowns.
@@thedevincrutcher Wasn't there a video of someone playing Cyberpunk 2077 on their Tesla just for funsies? I think Elon retweeted it.
@@thedevincrutcher there was some information in a press release that a certain german manufacturer uses the snapdragon 820A in its newest models that are currently on sale. The chip is from 2016, and looks to be horribly underpowered, the system is slow as molasses. But it does have CarPlay and Android Auto.
@@HNedel CarPlay and Android Auto only need to decode h.264 stream from phone USB and send touch commands back to phone. It's a bit more complicated for wireless, but still not outrageous. The requirements for it are quite low, even a single-core ARM chip can do it without dropping frames. And for many users, Android Auto and CarPlay are preferred over the cars built-in system because it's a more consistent experience, especially for those who switch cars. It's fundamentally the same in a rental Altima as in an Audi and there is something to be said for that.
a embeeded ryzen isnt a god tier processor calm your fanboying
Totally geeking & nerding out on this! crazy tight packaging, cooling integration
me too- a ryzen APU, dedicated radeon GPU, two nvidia PX drive SOCs and more packed into a box the size of a mini ITX PC- just awesome
Hopefully those little coin cells don't get run down as long as 12v is available! At least they're socketed.
It's interesting they didn't socket the NVME - I figured after all the trouble with the Gen1 MCUs they'd have made that easier to service.
As far as I know, they moved everything that's written regularly to the SD card and only keep the software installation and low-traffic stuff like settings on the hard-wired storage.
Yeah, it was the massive logs that wore down the memory chip, it was a small emmc job, probably not rated for endurance. Wonder what will happen when the sd card eventually wears out, if there will be some notification for the user to go to a service center or something
@@HNedel
This computer is certainly accessible to the average person. Looks like you could probably split it apart without damaging it. And when he pulled the SD card out I'm pretty sure it had a name brand on it so it's not some custom SD card. There are high endurance SD cards available. I use one in my dash cam because it sees multiple overwrites continuously. But they do eventually fail. Just glad to see that they made it a replaceable part. Be interesting if you did get a message to replace it if you did it yourself would it just automatically detect it or would you still have to go to a service center to have it reset?
Came over from Dillon Loomis' referral! Really appreciate your work from my grad studies days in computing architectures, several lifetimes ago!
This is fantastically designed, very good job by tesla.
More computing power in there than in any other car manufacturer's entire inventory combined! Thanks for talking us through this.
Wow thats like a whole gaming pc
No surprise they use HDMI/USB conectors for debug connections, those connectors can push a lot of bandwidth and are dirt cheap.
I wish our layout engineers where this good, every tesla board looks beautiful.
Lol.....
Love the design, using one cooling integrated housing to mount the car computer, the graphics card and the FSD computer. So much savings of steps and cost.
And love your presentation style too, very similar in excellence to the Tesla design! Lol
Good to have you back doing stuff. I guess you got moved and setup shop some place new. Again. Welcome back.
Holy moly, that thing is densely populated. What the hell
WOW! Such a deep dive into Tesla Cars… This arch looks like regular computer system.
Thank you!
The latest x seems to have a passenger display that is currently enabled.
Link? Can't see to find this info
This is super cool. Really interesting to know what's powering the new Tesla computer!
Thanks for the tear down
Sandy be like *HEAVY BREATHING*
Thank you for your great and very informative teardowns. It is very interesting to see the technology and the approach Tesla is using in their cars , compared to legacy car manufacturers. Great design. The EMC requirements for this car computer would be crazy having so many different RF signals on the same board.
This is one more reason for the all-metal enclosure. People keep asking why the (expensive) cast/machined/stamped enclosure when it could be plastic. Especially in the EU, where EMC regs are more strict.
Really nice teardown, good job.
Thank you! This is excellent, and a lot more detailed than I thought it would be. Very informative!
Great In sight , didn't know it was a separate GPU . Thought they were using a Ryzen apu .
Well im guessing this is like a laptop. Igpu for non gaming stuff and save power, and gpu for gaming
Thanks! Would like to know how it compares to earlier computers.
Shame that someone wrecked a Plaid already, but probably not surprising. More money than driving skills or responsibility.
EVERYONE WHO VALUES THEIR LIVES, PLEASE go to a high performance driving or racing school to get some driving skills. It can save your life and the lives of your passengers. The best safety system is the driver.
Impressive computing power on that thing, which makes sense, since we're talking about an autonomous (to some degree) car.
6:45 WOW, an off board Realtek Ethernet controller, I never though one of those existed like without being inside a SoC. Never saw one as a discrete chip before.
I am addicted to this channel!
Very informative teardown as usual!
Any plans to do quick teardowns on the latest Plaid VC Front/Right/Left and new 12V Li-Ion battery controller?
Thanks for the review, helps to understand the car better
Is that MicroSD card the replacement for the eMMC chips that failed on the model s and X?
That is exactly what i was thinking... that would be a really smart move to make it replacable if it wears out.
And it is nice one, endurance up to 128 TBW, 8000 full 16GB writes on MLC
No, that 16 GB microSD card is used for logging other things (the other Teslas have a separate microSD card for the same purposes). The eMMC equivalent is the memory chip that he pointed out as being 256 GB at 5 min 30 sec (the Model 3/Y have 64 GB).
@@android04 but it is a good thing that they have switched to basically a normal SSD which can handle the write cycles a lot better than the eMMC memory.
@@android04 Micro 256GB (M.2) NVMe SSD, so I think it's a MTFDHBA256TDV
Thanks for the teardown. What the brand and model number of the Class-D amplifier chips?
That's a rather cool shared coldplate design. Would love a SFFPC built like that.
Clear and concise what a change from the confused garbling's we see from others, thanks.
That Passenger Display port on the computer might be for the new Roadster, which had a small passenger display on the vehicle used for the unveiling.
My requests for more details:
1) Weber Auto Channel (Prof. Kelly from Weber State) assembles whole subsystems on a bench. I wish, you did so, too. So for example, you could take the FSD board, then attach the Ethernet cables, all cameras, GPS antenna, power, and the bus wires to the actor ECUs (steering, e-motor controller). And you could stress that all parking sensors and the radar sensor transmit their data via busses to this board via separate ECUs.
2) You could assemble the whole infotainment system: the PCB you showed and then: wireless and bluetooth antenna, USB-C cable to the glovebox, console USB, the 3 displays, (e-call), autopilot computer, diagnostic connector, power cable, CAN busses and all ECUs, speakers, LTE antenna.
3) You probably know those boards with ECU, sensors, actors, power supply on demonstration boards in automotive schools. Something like that would be nice when you explain the systems, each with their ECUs, sensors, actors and power supply and ground.
4) A bus topology view would be very helpful. You can start with the Tesla specific diagnostic link connector, its pinout and then work your way down to the switches (Ethernet and CAN gateway), then busses (BroadR, Ethernet, CAN busses) and then to the ECUs, their attached sensors and attached actors, and LIN busses.
I did this once on the Model 3, see this video: ua-cam.com/video/rDYbvI32OBE/v-deo.html Making youtube videos is a side hobby. Sadly I just can't spend that much time on an ongoing basis.
How much did you donate to feel comfortable making this kind of request?
@@genabuksuet I donated my time to write the comment. He asked for requests for more details from viewers. I answered his questions and made some recommendations. The Weber Auto channel from Prof. John Kelly - even though rooted in transmissions and hybrid drivetrains - is very popular (380.000 subscribers at this time) with his even more educational approach. But Phil is even better regarding the actual electronics and digital details like tracking down ICs and explaining circuits.
BTW: I donated money as well in the past to Phil on an ongoing basis. Not a lot. But to show my support. He even asked me for teardown ideas via email.
@@koeniglicher I'm glad to hear you contributed to Phil's channel with more than requests. Weber Auto channel is backed by Weber State University, while Phil is here on his own. He needs our financial support to continue spending his time educating us. I've never come across someone else, who is giving away so much of their knowledge, asking nothing in return. There are only 2 other channels that I know of, sharing similar in-depth details about Tesla. One is EVTV, which pretty much went South after Jack Rickard passed away, the other one is Damien Maguire. Engineerix is presenting his knowledge in a much easier way to consume by people with less of engineering and electronics skills and knowledge, similar to Weber, but much more in-depth from electronics stand point. J. Kelly himself is more of a mechanic and doesn't have deep understanding of electronics, unlike Engineerix. You can't really compare the two.
Thank you, excellent overview!
hahaha you got super awkward at the end my guy you ended it like 20 times hahahahaha I like the actual technical specifications you went over, would love for you to go deeper with the technicals
9:39 What can be the so called "repeater two
camera" possible usage?
Could there be cameras installed at the corners of the cars, inside the turn signal for example,
to help city driving to detect traffic when making a left turn without having the front of the car
entering into a traffic lane?.
CyberTruck prototype has extra cameras - one in the front bumper, and an extra by the license plate (maybe for hitch assist?)
@@BlazerRox license plate - you mean like the backup camera, or aimed lower?
@@maxmyzer9172 There is another in addition to the backup camera. Nothing has been officially said of it, just observed when the prototype was on display
Would the semi have more cameras also?
Probably to calculate hitch angle which will be needed as an input for stability while towing on Autopilot. GM does a similar thing.
Wow this is real technology and a reason other cars become distant legacy. Huge thanks for walking us thru.
That's what she said LOL.....
How is the heat sink assembled? Is it two pieces that bolt together to form the coolant channel or is it welded together?
Cant wait for people to really get to grips with these systems and offer "unofficial" features and cheap unlocking.
The Plaid does have a passenger screen by the way... in the back seat behind the center console.
That's already accounted for, that's called the "rear" display. The "passenger" connector is not populated, so not used in the Plaid.
@@Ingineerix ah very interesting
Hmm. I think my car have more compute power than my ageing gamer PC.
I will say, looks like some quality components and build !
Fantastic detail and level of expertise in your video. Very nice share!
Shame it’s not water resistant. Anyway thx for these videos.
pretty disappointing its not water proof.
Why would it. It’s inside the vehicle and no other components inside the car are waterproof. No other vehicle for that matter has waterproofing on their electronic components unpleasant it’s outside
They bathe it in an oleophobic coating which helps keep water away
@@jamarforsythe7262 that wouldn’t help at all if the unit is submerged ln water, which can happen since it is mounted beneath the floor mats.
It’s amazing how they were able to cram so much processing power into such a small package and run everything the Tesla needs from there.
Love your videos! Is there any possibility that you could show the coldplate in a more detailed way? Maybe even cut through it in order to see the fluid flow tubes and turbulators etc.
Thank you in advance and keep it up!
Buy one that I can destroy and send it to me! You are talking about trashing a $3-4k piece of hardware.
@@Ingineerix I know and I definitely would if I had one to trash. I just thought maybe with a bit of luck the one you disassembled might have been broken or needed to be replaced anyway 😉
Could you show in more detail how the cooling plate was built?
What exactly is the "gateway"?
You can think of it as a central data point where all the different communications from various modules of the car come together in a single place.
INB4 Linus adds liquid metal and overclocks this thing somehow.
Very interesting...Happy I found your site....
Did I see a pair of mercury battery coin cell sockets on the back of the bottom-most PCB?
Coin cell; yes. Mercury; no. Almost all modern uses are Lithium primary, not mercury.
Where does the cooling glycol come from? Is there a separate radiator to keep the glycol cool?
That's some beautiful and very dense engineering!
Can you give us a better look at the coldplate?
Can we get a comparison with the model 3 computer? Wonder if we’ll be able to upgrade down the line.
Could you elaborate on EMI shielding of gaps between the metal enclosure and connectors. Also could you elaborate on the use of different connectors for the redundant autopilot channels. The 2 connectors seem to anchor in rather different ways.
This was a awesome look into the electronics side of Tesla. How many other control modules is there? I remember Sandy Munroe said Tesla uses three to control everything versus Ford using more than 20 small individual modules.
Thank you 😊.
The main concept of Car Computer System from Tesla, which are first introduced in M3 - is a mininum quantity of control modules. Most of functions of car is implemented in this computer, and 3 another - VCFRONT, VCLEFT, VCRIGHT.
Another is: ABS/ESP, SRS, TPMS. Also, of course, HV Battery has own control system, and Drive Motor(s).
@@aekas56 it makes things simpler and the down side more costly. If you're having an audio problem, you're buying all this outside of warranty
@@htnowpro I prefer cheap modules that only an expensive one.
How can I support your channel financially? Do you have a Patreon link or something like that? FMPOV, you do an awesome job.
Thanks! On my channel's "About" page there is a donation link. ua-cam.com/users/Ingineerixabout
Excellent video. Subscribed with notifications set to all.
But, I'm confused. There are 2+1=3 gpus?
One GPU on the ICE (Infotainment) side, and Tesla has it's own proprietary 2 chips on the APE (Autopilot) side. They aren't technically GPUs.
Very nice detailed view on this awesome unit. Modern cars need lots of computing power and have to be easely updateable. Alot of car manufacturers have problems with slow old systems that are build up with many modules throughout the car. Tesla has all the important stuff in one place :)
Can you do displays next.or front panel to be exact.bio defense, screen tilt, the long glass panel on the passenger side please ❤️❤️
This was great to see!
Fantastic, I’d love to know how much RAM various parts of the main computers uses.
That computer is mind blowing!!! Fantastic video, very interesting and fascinating! Can't wait to get my Plaid and experience all its ALIEN TECH!! Thank you for the teardown!!!
Lol... there is othing nmind blowing about that.
@@carholic-sz3qv you can't even write a full sentence bro.
My curiosity has been solved.
The best review of the year!
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Help me understand. Is that computer actually mounted on the flat part of the floorboard? That is hard to imaging. Perhaps it is on the part of the footwell I would call the firewall. Or maybe I got it all wrong.
It sits, as mentioned in the video, on the inclined part of the footwell on the passenger side where you put your feet.
This was an excellent video. Thanks for sharing!
Great info! On the diagonstic connector below the display, does it still have the four CAN bus connections, or is it something different now. Do they use the same 20 pin connector?
Not Navi
"YE180FC3T4MFG uses four Zen 1 cores with eight threads and an integrated Vega graphics unit with up to 11 compute units or 704 shader arithmetic units. According to AMD's announcement from June 2021
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I'll take an engineering sample from Tesla any day.
Superb video. How does the fluid move trough cold-plate? The 2 tubes for lilquid cooling are converging in battery cooling system, but no pump in-between apparently. Is there and integrated pump?!
There is a flow diverter, and there are already 4 pumps on the Plaid, there is no additional pump.
@@Ingineerix Tks for the brilliant answer
Great video and insight into the Tesla's computer. Any way you could explain in more simpler terms for people who are not so familiar with the tech thanks
This one is for you: ua-cam.com/video/fUCgLCbX_18/v-deo.html (Warning over 40 minutes!)
the unpolulated camera header could be for the upcoming interior (driver awareness) camera in future revisions of the cars as they become mandatory on self driving enabled cars
I believe all the cars since 2017 or 2018 has the driver facing camera.
I'm so confident I would like this, I upvoted then watched.
so basically a watercooled ryzen/navi pc inside :D
Simple question, why is it water cooled? It's a 45Watt Ryzen. That thing would be Ok with a simple air cooler that would weight maybe 1/25th of that block and be more than good enough.
Keep in mind this is also cooling the Autopilot hardware, and this is inside a car cabin which can almost boil water in cars outside in hot climates. Air cooling is not going to cut it if you want it to be reliable.
I'm shocked that this is not a hermetic unit :o
Yes, given the price and the mount location, that would certainly be the more sustainable option.
Could be that they have not finilized the conformal coating at their supplier and/or additional components to release the vehicles to customers sooner citing low likelyhood of water damage. Many manufacturers are making shortcuts right now due to constraints in the supply chain.
@@chouky02 You can always wrap it up in a plastic container, and make the cables tight with 1$ of silicone.
@@chouky02 Sealing covers and cable-connectors would be good enough with a pressure relief valve and desiccant to take care of altiude- and temperature-changes, pretty much like for a harddrive.
Conformal coating would just be an icing on the cake.
Its not a submarine
This was so informative
Curious what their assembly yields look like for each of these boards. Is the re-work the responsibility of the board assembly house, or does tesla do that inhouse. used to repair boards a long time ago.
I hope your setup is ESD safe when you're doing these teardowns!
High humidity here in NorCal right now, so no static concerns.
DUDE! I am an ME and I have a huge question. That coldplate / housing core is unbelievable - how is the cooling channel manufactured? The only method I've heard of that would work is either sand cast or salt core die cast, which is wild. Because this looks like one solid piece, it doesn't look like it's been welded back together. Do you still have the housing?
To me, it appears to be 2 halves, and they appear to be friction stir welded on the sides.
@@Ingineerix huh, how does that work with the inlets? I’ve only heard of friction stir welded in one plane. Do you see weld lines around the sides?
@@jon-williammurphy9780 Sorry, I assumed you were talking about the older computer. I realize it was the new one, yeah, I can't tell how it was done, it's one big casting, so there is some kind of hollow process like you describe.
Great information, Thank you! I guess they couldn't fit it in the glove box ,would have been much higher.
I am not smart enough to understand it all but its so interesting. Thank you.
Video inputs on the dual custom A72 autopilot board - are they T1 ethernet, GSML FPDLink? Also curious we see 2 species of ethernet switch - Realtek + Marvell. A while back Tesla announced they were a starting successor to the twin (1+1 dual simplex?) ARM solution, I'm guessing it will be based on a ARM redundant core automotive processor A76AE or successors maybe? I can picture how such a high availability upgrade PCB could fit neatly into this stackup. Finally, the single central cold plate is a winning architecture with lower cost & weight with higher efficiency - top marks for that and liberal use of T1 GigE.
Is Ingineerix able to restore Supercharging on Flagged vehicles? What is required to restore supercharging on a flagged vehicle? Is it managed from the mothership rather than vehicle side, and could a non flagged module be substituted?
More videos when you have time please, so many details I would love to learn about here, that are not covered anywhere else!
Yes, I can restore supercharging on many models after Tesla has turned it off due to salvage status. I have a video that explains how charging works here: ua-cam.com/video/0lxxOsLcNQQ/v-deo.html
@@Ingineerix Is there a listing anywhere that outlines which modules/models you are able to restore supercharging on, and under what specific conditions?
Really are great videos I dont think can be found anywhere else, let alone with the amount of technical detail.
Thank you for the reply
Interesting they sent with a separate graphics card. Didn't expect that.
I can tell you German automakers look at this like alien technology
hello, are you able to point out or explain all the fuses where they're located ?
There are no fuses in the car computer. See my other videos on this topic.
Hmm... How much memory is on the APU and how much memory is on the GPU? That would be really interesting...
Does this revision address the eMMC issue. Did they disable the linux subsystem logging?
Amazing knowledge , Would it be possible to build a custom computer like this that fits into a jeep wrangler ?
Of course it's possible, but you are probably looking at millions of dollars in development cost. If you include autopilot, probably on the order of tens of millions, if not over a hundred million at this point. Got your checkbook?
@@Ingineerix i see , so it wouldn't be possible to move a existing system to a more powerful console ? Ie for example upgrading the hardware of a jeep wrangler from a basic quad to a 16core with a better gpu . Same functionality but better spec
@@DALINKUP Of course it's possible, but at what cost? If you are designing a car computer like Tesla did on this one to be manufactured in the millions of units for many years of production you can afford those one-time engineering costs. You as a Jeep owner cannot afford the engineering costs to re-engineer the whole Jeep infotainment system. It's too big of a project for a "one-off". If Stellantis wouldn't do it in the first place, how can just one guy?
@@Ingineerix i see , i didn't know if it was possible just to transfer a existing system to better hardware . But you've made me aware that it would take development . I thought aslong as your using a existing system / do not try and edit or add to it you're just increasing the hardware's power .
Kinda like how some people use Chinese oem parts to upgrade existing systems , As alot of Chinese factories haven't got millions to develop parts . They just make the connectivity universal . But thank you for the answer
Electronic components come in various grades, like consumer, industrial, automotive, military and space grade. It is known that the MCU1 suffered from a too small, consumer grade eMMC......so I wonder what grade these are. Also, as you mentioned the replacement cost would be insane, hopefully one day there are shops which can component repair those units.
With that many different component suppliers, it's a wonder that they can get these things made. What a headache of a supply chain that must be.
Thank you for this video!
Tnx so much, tell me please, how it connects to toolbox? Show switch sim card?
It connects to Toolbox3 via gigabit BroadRreach (1000BaseT1), so you need a media converter. There is no SIM card, at least in the US, they use an eSIM.