Embedded Image Processing the European Way: A new platform for the future automotive market

Within the European Processor Initiative (EPI) an objective is build an embedded High-Performance processing platform for future automotive applications such as autonomous driving. An embedded Field-Programmable-Gate-Array (eFPGA) enables the platform to be extended for future needs and requirements by various stakeholders. In this paper we give an overview about the project and our contributions to define the architecture of the eFPGA, which is suitable for the automotive market.Therefore, we describe our concept to explore the eFPGA architecture. It is motivated by a sound use case that deals with face recognition based on current neural networks. During the scope of the work we describe how the application is carefully mapped on the different domains of the EPI platform to make it more safe and secure as well as performant. As a result, we will find an apt eFPGA configuration, which can host common but also future neural network applications and a mapping of common image processing tasks.