Xilinx has introduced the Xilinx Automotive family of Spartan-6 FPGAs optimised for applications requiring high-speed connectivity and high-resolution video performance. These automotive-qualified devices provide the flexibility, scalability, and integration needed to reduce the system cost of automotive infotainment, driver assistance, driver information, and in-vehicle networking products. The devices provide a cost-optimised mix of logic and integrated features with a range of density and package options that enable developers to scale designs across multiple vehicle platforms. The devices offer up to 75K logic cells, 3.1Mbits of block RAM, 132 dedicated DSP slices for massive parallel processing at 250MHz, and support memory access rates of up to 800Mbit/s using integrated memory controllers. The hard-coded memory controllers and increased memory capacity of these devices enable fast buffering of video frames for vision-based driver assistance, infotainment, and hybrid driver information systems. The devices with embedded 3.125Gbit/s low-power serial transceivers and PCI Express interface cores are suitable for chip-to-chip communications in automotive infotainment systems. The high-speed interface capabilities and high clock speeds of these devices are also suitable for the low-cost camera interfacing and processing performance requirements of driver assistance applications.
