h²ECU: A High-Performance and Heterogeneous Electronic Control Unit for Automated Driving

Massive amounts of multi-sensor information pose a huge computational challenge for the design of a real-time automated driving module. The proposed h²ECU is a high-performance and heterogeneous electronic control unit (ECU) architecture for automated driving. By incorporating multiple multiprocessor SoCs (MPSoCs), general-purpose GPUs (GPGPUs), and FPGAs into one module, it can provide sufficient computing power while maintaining high scalability. The feasibility of h²ECU is demonstrated on a modified COTS vehicle, associated with a customized evaluation board and two typical advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) applications.