Next Generation FPGAs and SOCs - How Embedded Systems Can Profit

Felix Eberli; Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2013, pp. 610-613

New SOC like the Xilinx Zynq 7045 allow researchers and developers to combine the advantages of writing software for control functionality and having accelerators in the FPGA logic for the number crunching. The dual core Cortex-A9 ARM processor runs with up to 1 GHz and the FPGA has up to 900 DSP slices allowing a performance of up to 1,334 GMACs. SCS is porting a lot of algorithms like SGM stereo [1], Stixel clustering or an optical flow [2] to such devices allowing new cars to see their environment and react appropriately. The new developed SCS Zynq 7045 module will allow accelerated development using this technology.