Xilinx Automotive User Manual

Xilinx Automotive –

Flexible Solutions Beyond Silicon

AUTOMOTIVE

DRIVING AUTOMOTIVE

SOLUTIONS

Solutions Beyond Silicon

Xilinx leads one of the fastest-growing segments of the semiconductor industry––Programmable Logic

Devices (PLDs). With over 50 percent market share, Xilinx PLDs are rapidly becoming the solution of

choice for automotive applications, offering extreme flexibility, proven reliability, and the freedom to

change functionality even after being manufactured. As the automotive electronics market grows in the

areas of infotainment, driver assistance and driver information systems, Xilinx devices are at the heart of

each new innovation.

The Xilinx Automotive (XA) family of CPLDs and FPGAs allows for integration and

platform flexibility in design, lowering costs and eliminating obsolescence concerns,

while helping you achieve aggressive BOM cost targets.

To provide the complete solution, Xilinx is committed to develop, support and

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maintain key automotive IP blocks through our LogiCORE

system.

Xilinx is also working with prominent third-party companies to offer further IP

modules, as well as the required operating system/software support. In addition,

custom development and system integration are offered through expert design

services by Xilinx, as well as by proven third-party providers.

Courtesy of Ibeo Automobile Sensor GmbH

Automotive Industry Standards

• ISO/TS16949 Automotive Certification

• AEC-Q100 Device Qualification

• RoHS Compliance

• Pb-Free Packaging

• Extended temperature ranges:

I-Grade (Tj= -40˚C to + 100˚C)

Q-Grade (Tj= -40˚C to +125˚C)

Automotive

IMAGE PROCESSING

AND RECOGNITION

Xilinx Automotive FPGAs are being utilized as key components in the deployment of

vision-based Driver Assistance Systems:

• Superior computational performance to support pixel-level image processing

• Scalability for multiple feature bundling and customization on a single platform

• Flexibility for time-to-market and processing algorithm evolutionary enhancement

Xilinx Automotive and its alliance members offer a combination of image processing IP

solutions and design services tailored to automotive market needs:

• Productized IP cores provide fundamental image processing functionality and serve as

building blocks for customer-implemented designs

• Specialized design services leverage FPGA design experts with image processing experience

for efficient design and implementation efforts (turn-key or collaborative)

• Application-specific development boards for proof-of-concept implementation

Vision-based Automotive Applications

Forward-Looking Example: Lane Departure Warning Rear-Looking Example: Back-up/Park Aid

DDC's Automotive VADR module provides an

FPGA-based image processing platform with the

ability to record raw roadway video data in the field

for laboratory evaluation.

VIDEO AND GRAPHICS

Hybrid Instrument Cluster

Flexible Graphics Display

Controller System

Scalability and Flexibility

The scalability and flexibility of FPGAs can be

leveraged by the system architect in multiple ways.

For example, in driver information applications, the

increased usage of LED background lighting in today's

instrument clusters requires sophisticated control of

the individual LEDs to match the exact color and

brightness in OEM specifications.

Based on production variances of the LEDs, along with

varying numbers and arrangements inside the clusters,

achieving high production yields has become difficult

and now requires individual end-of-line programmability,

easily achievable with FPGA technology.

Easy LCD Interfacing

Deployment of hybrid instrument clusters consisting

of various numbers of traditional analog gauges,

with the addition of an LCD TFT display, poses further

challenges to the developer. Built-in support on

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Spartan

differential I/O standards, such as Reduced Swing

Differential Signaling (RSDS), make external

terminating resistors obsolete by simultaneously

simplifying the physical connection between the

FPGA and the display.

-3 generation products for low-swing

Automotive

Different kinds of display connections, as well as

resolutions, can easily be overcome with the highly

scalable and flexible FPGA approach, covering a

complete range of needs from simple text, to 2D

animation, to graphics-intensive 3D representations.

3D Graphics Accelerator

Xylon®Graphics Display Controller Solution

• Xylon Graphics Display Controller solution features a set of

configurable IP that is fully compatible with the Xilinx EDK

Platform Studio, allowing for complete systems with optional

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Microblaze

coding required

• Xylon IP cores combined with a Spartan XA FPGA scale

very efficiently, thus making it possible to size the FPGA

to a particular end-product configuration, and optimize

cost-per-function without changing platform architecture

or board design

• Graphics subsystems can be assembled with the appropriate

features that are well suited to an entire range of low- to

high-performance graphics systems, with or without video

support, all at a competitive cost

• Scaling the number of displays to two or more in a system,

such as Rear-Seat Entertainment, is now possible on a

single FPGA

embedded processor with little, or no, VHDL

Supporting a Wide Range of Applications

• Low-end graphics systems, such as message centers or HVAC

control, requiring display functions such as blend, fade, scroll,

and simple animation of graphic objects through the use of a

multilayer alpha blended LCD controller and basic 2D

acceleration

• Mid/High-end graphics systems, such as fully reconfigurable

LCD instrument clusters or Rear-Seat Entertainment systems,

requiring additional operations such as bitmap decompression,

anti-aliased scalable fonts, bitmap rotation, and bitmap

translation/scaling

• High-end graphics systems, such as navigation or advanced

user interfaces, requiring real time manipulation of 3D graphics

including texture rendering, shading, or other true 3D effects

Xylon graphics software support ranges from basic embedded

graphic libraries (i.e. Segger emWIN) to complete end-to-end

development solutions including GUI development environments

(i.e. Altia) and industry standard interfaces (i.e. OpenGL ES).