GOWN wins award for FGPA design environment

GOWIN Semiconductor Corporation, an FPGA manufacturer experiencing rapid growth, announced the certification of its GOWIN EDA FPGA design environment as compliant with the ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 functional safety standards by the TUV testing laboratory.

This certification provides automotive OEMs with strong assurance that module designs incorporating GOWIN Arora-V (mid-density), Arora-II (low-/mid-density), or LittleBee (low-density) FPGAs can meet the system-level functional safety requirements outlined in the ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 standards.

The attainment of functional safety certification is anticipated to generate heightened interest in GOWIN's FPGAs, which are available in versions qualified to AEC-Q100 Grade 2, with qualification to AEC-Q100 Grade 1 pending. GOWIN's product range holds existing quality and reliability certificates such as IATF16949, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO/IEC 17025.

With a superior feature set, including a broader range of high-speed video, display, and graphics interfaces compared to other FPGAs in the same market segment, coupled with a strong reliability track record for devices fabricated on TSMC’s 22nm LP process, GOWIN FPGAs are already integrated into vehicles for various applications, including:

• Video bridging and local display dimming in infotainment systems
• Image signal processing of camera outputs in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)
• USB audio interfacing
• Display monitoring and safety backup in the instrument cluster

Jason Zhu, CEO of GOWIN, commented: "GOWIN is attracting growing interest in the automotive industry because of its innovations in FPGA design in the low- and mid-density segments. Notably, we uniquely provide hardcore MIPI interfaces in FPGAs alongside DDR3 memory and high-speed LVDS and PCIe interfaces.

‘With the award of functional safety certification for our popular GOWIN EDA development environment, we are confident in our ability to make further inroads into the automotive markets in Europe, North America and Asia."

The GOWIN EDA FPGA design environment comprises an FPGA design tool, IP cores, and reference designs, supporting the SystemVerilog, Verilog, and VHDL programming languages.