Futuristic platform for automotive electronics

A Si-Gate product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Nov 11, 2004

Si-Gate has developed an innovative development platform (Si-Gate X1500) suitable for futuristic automotive electronics applications.

The Si-Gate X1500 is a novel development platform for futuristic automotive electronics applications.

The platform can be reconfigured using Hardware Description Language (HDL) targeting multiple applications including powertrain, body, chassis and safety systems.

Si-Gate develops products and electronic solutions for the automotive and OEM markets, and offers custom development of automotive electronic control units for both prototyping and low volume production runs.

Si-Gate also develops embedded software and custom FPGA code/IP development, with a core focus on the application of state-of-the-art technology into new automotive systems.

"By combining our experience in developing automotive electronic control units (ECUs) together with low cost field programmable gate array (FPGA) technologies in our Si-Gate X1500 product, we believe our customers can develop and release new feature content in their ECUs without re-investing in expensive development programs".

"Upcoming FPGA technologies are allowing automotive electronics designers new degrees of design freedom with cost targets not previously obtainable with traditional FPGA solutions".

"With the Si-Gate X1500 development platform our customers can rapidly configure their custom application needs into a reconfigurable/re-useable ECU while reducing their time to market without waiting on upon technologies not yet released in silicon", said Robert Newberry, Managing Director of Si-Gate.

The Si-Gate X1500 is a complete 32bit field configurable ECU platform, combining the highly popular 32bit ARM7TDMI-S processor core with programmable logic for customer driven IP applications, a robust memory subsystem, and a full suite of automotive and industrial peripherals.

The X1500 enables programmable system on-chip applications and expands traditional development platforms by including necessary physical layers onboard the ECU.

The X1500 provides designers with a configurable ECU right out of the box suitable for a wide range of automotive and industrial applications.

The X1500 is ideally suited for projects where flexibility and expandability is needed.