A Survey on use of FPGA in Automotive System

Abstract

Automotive systems are real-time basis systems and are required to be highly fault-tolerant systems. Microcontrollers became a prominent part of the automotive sector. Microcontroller-based ECUs are easier to program, debug and design. However, they lack in non-availability of hard and softcore design suites, processing speed, etc. The Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is one of the System-OnChip (SoC) units. FPGAs are the best choice for low-volume, high-end applications and for pre-and post-silicon validation and firmware development. FPGAs provide access to hardcore and softcore processing. This makes it more likely to be utilized in automotive systems. Clusters with more difficult performance make FPGAs a better choice over microcontrollers as they have higher performance, and parallel processing ability due to which they provide a quicker solution. FPGAs have an Advance Encryption Standard (AES), which protects the hardware from cyber threats. They are also less susceptible to data flip which causes a soft error in the hardware while processing. This paper presents a survey on the role and significance of FPGA in Automotive systems. This survey aims to showcase the opportunities and challenges of FPGAs in next-generation automotive systems.