Deep Dive Teardown of the Panasonic Toyota Tundra Head Unit 86100-0C381 Automotive
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The Toyota Tundra is a pickup truck produced by Toyota, a Japanese manufacturer, within the United States. The Panasonic 86100-0C381 is an advanced infotainment system developed by Panasonic. The is a head control unit part of the infotainment system of the Toyota Tundra. The Panasonic 86100-0C381 platform is designed to provide enhanced connectivity and entertainment for vehicle users. The head unit features Bluetooth 5.1 and WiFi6 (dual band 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) connectivity. This chip was supplied by NXP Semiconductor. It is also equipped with AM/FM radio working on a chip from Panasonic. NXP made the chips responsible for WiFi/Bluetooth. This device has two separate antennas supporting WiFiand Bluetooth. Also, the device has two external antenna connectors to supply signal for Digital Radio Tuner and GPS. For this device, Samsung supplied 4 x 2 GB Mobile LPDDR4X SDRAM (total of 8 GB LPDDR4) and 64 GB of NAND Flash.
