Overview
To facilitate autonomous driving, the automotive industry is transitioning to zonal architectures. This new E/E architecture promises improved performance and scalability, but necessitates a significantly higher in-vehicle network bandwidth. Over the last decade, OEMs have been integrating automotive Ethernet as the vehicle's data backbone to link zonal controllers with the central compute unit. Now, OEMs are beginning to implement multi-gigabit SerDes PHYs to connect high-resolution sensors with the zonal Controllers, enabling high-speed end-to-end in-vehicle communication.
Key Benefits
Performance and Scalability
Using zonal architectures to enable end-to-end communication
Standards-Based Design and Verification IP
Including automotive ethernet, MIPI, PCIe, and CAN to enable cutting-edge automotive applications
End-to-End Vehicle Communication
Connecting high-resolution sensors via zonal controllers to the central CPU, leveraging automotive ethernet as the vehicle’s data backbone
Multigigabit Data Transfer
High-speed SerDes interfaces enabling asynchronous, high-reliability, and very-low-latency data transfers over long-reach wiring