FPGA based Networked Embedded Systems Design and Prototyping: Automobile oriented Applications

摘要

In 1968 Volkswagen integrates an electronic circuit as a new control fuel injection system, called "Little Black Box". It's considered as the first embedded system in the automotive industry. Presently, every year, automobile constructors integrate new embedded systems into their vehicles. Behind these automobile's embedded systems, a sophisticated HW/SW architecture, which is based on Multiple CPU is built. In this paper we describe our experience within a progressing work in using FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) to design and prototype wireless networked embedded systems. We built a hardware platform based on FPGAs in order to emulate a wireless networked embedded systems for V2X automobile applications. Also, we discuss the emulation of on-car embedded systems that communicate and exchange data wirelessly. Firstly we show how a HW platform based FPGAs can be a very attractive approach; secondly, we describe a real experience in building a wireless networked hardware platform based on Zynq 7020, finally, we share our preliminary results by discussing our choices.