A View from Above – Aldec Adds ‘Bird’s Eye View’ Function to Growing Portfolio of ADAS FPGA-based Reference Designs f...
October 15 2018 - 6:00PM
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Aldec, Inc., an industry leader in electronic design
verification, is making available yet more support for automotive
design engineers with the addition of an Advanced Driver-Assistance
System (ADAS) ‘Bird’s Eye View’ reference design for its
TySOM™-3-ZU7EV embedded development kit.
Bird’s Eye View is an embedded vision (EV) feature currently in
high demand for ADAS as it provides a 360o surrounding view of the
vehicle, as if seen from above. As a minimum the feature will
assist drivers when parking but it also has the potential to play a
role in obstacle detection and for providing lane departure
warnings.
The reference design is available with Aldec’s TySOM™-3-ZU7EV
embedded development kit and requires an FMC-ADAS daughter card and
four fisheye cameras; also available from Aldec either separately
or as part of Bird’s Eye View bundle.
“As with all our TySOM reference designs we’ve set out to save
software and firmware engineers considerable design time and
effort,” comments Radek Nawrot, Director of Operations at Aldec.
“This allows them to take a building-block approach for some
functions and to concentrate on integration issues and the crafting
of higher-level functionality, which is where their skills are best
employed and how they bring most value to their projects and
companies.”
The Bird’s Eye View reference design makes the most of the Zynq
device’s processing system (software) and programmable logic
(firmware) parallel processing capabilities, and has six stages.
These are: 1 – image capture (firmware), 2 – frame resize (software
& firmware), 3 – lens distortion removal (software &
firmware), 4 – perspective transformation (software &
firmware), 5 – final image creation (firmware) and 6 – output to
display and/or other ADAS systems (firmware).
The TySOM-3-ZU7EV features a Xilinx® Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC
device, which provides 64-bit processor (dual-core ARM® Cortex™)
scalability while combining real-time control with soft and hard
engines for graphics, video, waveform, and packet processing.
Aldec provides a HW/SW co-simulation solution for Zynq-based
applications in the form of Riviera-PRO™, the company’s popular
functional verification tool, when used in conjunction with
open-source Quick Emulation (QEMU).
A full demonstration of the Bird’s Eye View will be given on
Aldec’s stand (617) at Arm TechCon 2018; October 16th to 18th, San
Jose Convention Center.
About TySOM-3 Embedded Prototyping Board
TySOM-3-ZU7EV is a compact prototyping board containing a Zynq®
UltraScale+™ MPSoC device which provides 64-bit processor
scalability while combining real-time control with soft and hard
engines for graphics, video, waveform, and packet processing.
Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ ZU7EV-FFVC1156 MPSoC contains a Video Codec
Unit which supports H.264/H.265, and also has the biggest FPGA in
the UltraScale+™ MPSoC family. This chip includes a Quad-core ARM
Cortex-A53 as an Application Processing Unit, Dual-core ARM
Cortex-R5 as a Real-Time Processing Unit and ARM Mali-400 MP2 as a
Graphics Processing Unit. TySOM-3-ZU7 is designed to assure
flexibility in selecting peripherals because of leveraging all the
features of the Zynq UltraScale+ ZU7EV-FFVC1156 MPSoC chip. This
prototyping board contains 4 GB DDR4 Memory for the Programmable
Logic (PL) and support DDR4 SODIMM Memory for the Processing System
(PS). This board includes 2 Gb NAND Memory and supports up to 32GB
of SSD storage in Micro-SD card. Communication and networking is
enabled by ×2 Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi & Bluetooth, CAN, Pmod,
4× USB 3.0, USB to UART Bridge, SATA and QSFP+ connector.
Multimedia interfaces are provided using DisplayPort, HDMI IN/OUT.
To expand the peripherals, 2× FMC (1× HPC and 1× LPC) VITA
57.1-2010 compliant are provided on the board. Thus, additional
devices can be connected as FMC Daughter Cards that are provided by
Aldec and other vendors.
About Aldec
Aldec, Inc., headquartered in Henderson, Nevada, is an industry
leader in Electronic Design Verification and offers a patented
technology suite including: RTL Design, RTL Simulators,
Hardware-Assisted Verification, SoC and ASIC Emulation/Prototyping,
Design Rule Checking, CDC Verification, IP Cores, Requirements
Lifecycle Management, DO-254 Functional Verification,
High-Performance Computing and Military/Aerospace solutions.
www.aldec.com
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