System-on-chip integration of embedded automotive controllers
Michael Engel, Olaf Spinczyk · 2008
Automotive embedded systems today fulfill a large variety of tasks -- from simple mechanisms like window regulators to the control of complex multimedia systems. Current high-end cars use more than 70 microcontrollers, connected over one or more common bus systems. Many of these controllers are comparatively simple 8- or 16-bit systems. The availablility of large-scale FPGAs enables system designers to replace several of these systems with an implementation as software cores.