An FPGA-based Electronic Control Unit for Automotive Systems

In this paper, we propose an Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based Electronic Control Unit (ECU) for automotive systems. By deploying the FPGA-based ECU in automobile, it improves the flexibility of entire system. The FPGA can communicate with an automotive MCU by deploying the Zipwire communication unit through high-speed and reliable protocol. The Zipwire communication unit is realized on FPGA and successfully demonstrates the Zipwire communication between the MCU and FPGA.