Automotive Vision Grabber: FPGA design, cameras and data transfer over PCIe

Abstract

In this paper, a system which enables testing and faster development in automotive industry is proposed. The system enables testing in a very simple way, allowing for cost savings during testing and development, as well as raising security in a way that first tests are not to be performed on real roads, but are done in the laboratory. Automotive Machine Vision Grabber is a device whose purpose is capturing multiple video streams and saving them to hard disk drive. Captured streams could then be used for testing various ADAS algorithms used in automotive. This paper shows implementation of FPGA design, camera control system and PCIe interface. Furthermore, different tests were performed, while the obtained results are promising.