FlexRay Controller

Product Details

• Ask Xilinx About this Core
• LogiCORE IP Site License (PDF)

Device Family Support

• Virtex-II Pro
• Spartan-3A DSP
• Spartan-3E
• Spartan-3E XA
• Spartan-3 XA
• Spartan-3

This core has been discontinued as of June 30, 2009, and is no longer orderable.

The Xilinx LogiCORE™ FlexRay controller core is ideally suited for use in automotive network applications that demand highly fault tolerant synchronous and asynchronous transfer capabilities. Through user-configurable options, the Xilinx FlexRay core provides a flexible solution for applications such as automotive network backbones, body control units, test equipment and gateways. The core can be used in standalone mode or connected to Xilinx MicroBlaze™ or PowerPC™ processors. The FlexRay core is designed to FlexRay specification 2.1A and is verified in hardware to enable users to quickly deliver flexible and affordable FPGA-based automotive systems.

Key Features

• Designed to FlexRay Specification Version 2.1A 
• Single communication channel 
• Data rates up to 10 Mbps 
• Scalable synchronous and asynchronous data transmission 
• Configurable payload length 
• Configurable Buffer storage supporting up to 128 messages 
• Frame ID, Cycle Counter and Message ID based receive filtering 
• Full support of error and status notification 
• Use standalone with a generic bus interface or in conjunction with MicroBlaze soft processor and On-chip peripheral Bus interface (OPB) 
• FlexRay Driver for the MicroBlaze 32-bit processor available through Vector Group to enable easy access to full suite of Vector's FlexRay software solution developed according to the AUTOSAR specification