CES 2018: Continental Offers Platform for Accelerating Development of Automated Driving Control Units
Summary
Developed by Continentals San Jose Research & Development Center in collaboration with Xilinx, San Jose, the Assisted & Automated Driving Control Unit will enable Continentals customers to get to market faster by building upon the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) framework, standardized by the Khronos Group, a consortium focused on the creation of open standards for graphics, media and parallel computation.The result is the ultimate freedom to optimize performance, without sacrificing latency, power dissipation, or the flexibility to move software algorithms between the integrated chips, as the project progresses.Xilinxs All Programmable Technology was chosen as it offers flexibility and scalability to address the ever-changing and new requirements along the way to fully automated self-driving cars," said Amit Kapoor, Head of Continentals Advanced Driver Assistance Systems business unit in North America.The first product of this scalable family is a module for advanced driver assistance systems that offers a complete, cost-optimized package connecting sensors and actuators with the perfect balance of central intelligence, safety, and security.Automotive engineers creating their own differentiated solutions are enabled with Xilinxs software development environment, including building blocks for computer vision, machine learning, sensor fusion and connectivity.