Video and Graphics

Visualizing Your Destination

You can use highly scalable and flexible FPGAs to implement sophisticated controls for LEDs in background lighting for driver information systems to match OEM specifications.

Extended Spartan®-3A devices include built-in support for lowswing differential I/O standards, such as reduced swing differential signaling (RSDS), make external terminating resistors obsolete by simplifying the physical connection between the FPGA and the an LCD TFT display for various connection types and resolutions.

Other typical applications supported include:

• Low end graphic systems, such as message centers or HVAC control, requiring display functions such as blend, fade, scroll, and simple animation of graphic objects through the use of a multilayer alpha blended LCD controller and basic 2D acceleration
• Mid/high end graphic systems, such as fully re-configurable LCD instrument clusters or Rear Seat Entertainment systems, requiring additional operations such as bitmap decompression, anti-aliased scalable fonts, bitmap rotation, and bitmap translation/scaling.
• High end graphic systems, such as navigation or advanced user interfaces, requiring real time manipulation of 3D graphics including texture rendering, shading, or other true 3D effects

Xylon, a Xilinx automotive solution provider, offers graphics software support ranging from basic embedded graphic libraries, such as Segger emWIN, to complete end-to-end development solutions including GUI development environments such as Altia and industry standard interfaces such as OpenGL ES.

Here are a few examples of what you can accomplish with products and services from Xilinx and our partners:

• Use the Xilinx EDK Platform Studio with configurable IP in the Xylon Graphics Display Controller solution to help create complete systems with optional MicroBlaze™ processor and little or no VHDL coding.
• Use the efficiently scalable XA Spartan FPGAs with Xylon IP cores to size the XA device to particular end-product configurations and optimize cost per function without changing platform architecture or board design.
• Assemble graphics subsystems with features and performance well suited to an wide range of competitively-priced graphics systems, with or without video support.
• Use a single FPGA to scale the number of displays to two or more in a system, such as rear seat entertainment.