Xilinx Korea (Country Manager Ahn Heung-sik) February 13, 2014 – Xilinx and Xylon announced the logiADAK Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC Automotive Driver Assistance Kit, jointly developed with ecosystem partners eVS (Embedded Vision Systems) and DDC (Digital Design Corporation). This kit enables OEM automakers and major automotive electronics suppliers to develop advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) equipped with up to six cameras. Visitors to the Xilinx booth at Embedded World, held in Nuremberg, Germany from February 25-27, can obtain more information about the logiADAK Automotive Driver Assistance Kit.

The improved Driver Assistance Kit is a completely new-concept platform that includes application-specific software and a complete reference design for rapid test vehicle installation and demonstration. The customized reference design includes an IP core and a complete design framework for camera-based ADAS, enabling the easy integration of additional customer-developed software or IP-based functions.

The logiADAK platform is built on the Xilinx® Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC and provides real-time high-performance capabilities as well as meeting stringent automotive temperature and quality conditions that exceed AEC-Q100 requirements. The Xilinx Automotive (XA) Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC is available for order now.

The logiADAK Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC Automotive Driver Assistance Kit accelerates the development of ADAS applications, including the following:

• 360-degree surround view via 3D and bird's-eye modes using up to 6 cameras, accelerating the development of general and special-purpose vehicles
• Rear camera with extensive customizable view modes, including pedestrian protection distance measuring device
• Front camera collision avoidance for pedestrian and vehicle protection
• Lane Departure Warning
• Blind spot detection using optical flow

Nick DiFiore, Automotive Director at Xilinx, stated, “Xilinx is working to develop various camera systems quickly and efficiently in collaboration with automotive ecosystem partners,” adding, “When integrating surround view and front camera collision avoidance or assistance functions into large vehicles or a single integrated solution, the ability to support six 1-megapixel cameras is very important.”

Davor Kovačec, Founder and CEO of Zylon, stated, “Through a real-time ADAS optimization development platform based on the Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC, automotive manufacturers and their electronics suppliers will be able to create unique and differentiated driver assistance applications by combining hardware and software IP with a high-performance SoC that allows for reprogrammability.”

With the Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC, which integrates industry-leading Xilinx 7 Series FPGA technology and the ARM® dual-core Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processing system, flexible and optimized intelligent high-density hardware/software ADAS can be rapidly implemented.