Baidu’s Apollo is an ambitious, open-source platform designed to support self-driving vehicles. Apollo Enterprise, initially released at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show, targets highway autonomous driving, autonomous valet parking, and fully autonomous mini-buses. It includes an intelligent map data service platform and Baidu’s voice assistant for cars, DuerOS.
Of course, the software framework needs to run on something, which is the Apollo Computing Unit (ACU). Baidu and Xilinx just announced that Apollo is running on the Xilinx Automotive (XA) Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC (XAZU5EV) (see figure). The 16-nm FinFET+ XA Zinq UltraScale+ MPSoC is an automotive-qualified FPGA that targets advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and self-driving cars. It incorporates 64-bit, hard-core Arm processors with an FPGA fabric that contains over 650,000 programmable logic cells and nearly 3,000 DSP slices.
