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Destination: Innovation—Blaupunkt Leverages Altera Solution to Deliver Advanced Auto Navigation
Blaupunkt reduced its time to market and minimized the component count of its TravelPilot Rome auto navigation system by using Altera® Cyclone FPGAs and Nios II embedded processors. Choosing Altera’s programmable solutions over ASICs or ASSPs gives Blaupunkt an accelerated product development model that enables the company to quickly bring additional automotive navigation products to market.
Altera’s low-cost Cyclone FPGA embedded with a Nios II soft processor provides the TravelPilot Rome with important control and display functions. The TravelPilot Rome is an after-market automotive navigation system that offers car owners many features generally found only in factory-installed navigation systems, including custom map views that highlight street geometry and the ability to identify multiple alternative routes. In addition, the TravelPilot Rome provides all the capabilities of a full-featured car stereo, including radio and playback support for both audio CDs and CD-R/RWs.
“The combination of Altera’s programmable solutions for the automotive industry and excellent development support shortened our design time by six months and made it possible for us to meet the demanding schedule we set for the TravelPilot Rome. We were able to reduce design complexity by replacing multiple standard components with a single Cyclone device hosting a Nios II embedded processor, which eased our development effort and increased our product quality and reliability.”
Georg Sandhaus
Director of System Engineering
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