Safety-Related Challenges and Opportunities for GPUs in the Automotive Domain
Sergi Alcaide, Leonidas Kosmidis, Hamid Tabani, Carles Hernández, Jaume Abella, Francisco Javier Cazorla · IEEE Micro · 2018
GPUs have been shown to cover the computing performance needs of autonomous driving (AD) systems. However, since the GPUs used for AD build on designs for the mainstream market, they may lack fundamental properties for correct operation under automotive's safety regulations. In this paper, we analyze some of the main challenges in hardware and software design to embrace GPUs as the reference computing solution for AD, with the emphasis in ISO 26262 functional safety requirements.