Automotive Solutions

The modern vehicle has become a data center on wheels. With embedded MIPI interfaces and the reprogrammable Quantum® fabric, Efinix® FPGAs are uniquely positioned to address the needs of automotive applications.

The automotive industry is going through a period of rapid evolution and that is posing a unique set of challenges. Automotive electronics are changing at a rapid pace with innovations in every aspect of the vehicle from driver assistance and autonomy to passenger experience, safety, and infotainment. Even the electronic drive train itself is evolving. Technologies such as advanced displays, sensors, and artificial intelligence are finding their way into vehicles and those same technologies and standards are advancing with increasing speed.

The unique challenge with the automotive industry is that, unlike the rapid typical consumer electronic design cycles, automotive design cycles are extremely long and burdened by time consuming and expensive certification requirements. Entire generations of electronic features can be designed into a vehicle and become obsolete before the vehicle enters production. What is needed is a hardware platform that can adapt to evolving requirements during the vehicles design cycle, absorbing new technologies and techniques while providing a stable hardware configuration for certification.

Applications

Applications up to ASIL-B are excellent targets for FPGAs. The explosion in the complexity of automotive electronics means that there is no shortage of ASIL-B applications in the modern vehicle.

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