In-vehicle Movie Streaming Using an Embedded System with MOST Interface

This paper discusses the design and implementation of an in-car infotainment system, which uses the MOST field bus as a back-bone. The infotainment system is build around two ECU's (Embedded Computing Units) for which we used Xilinx FPGA's with integrated processor cores. An automotive camera and two other movie sources are connected with SPI interfaces to one ECU which streams the data to the other ECU over an optical link using the MOST protocol. As movie sources, a live stream from a satellite link and movies stored on a hard disk in the vehicle can be considered. Movies and other visual information are displayed on a 7 inch VGA TFT screen, integrated into the dashboard.