Remote In-System Reconfiguration for Automotive Device

In this paper, we propose a remote In-System Reconfiguration (ISR) for automotive devices. An Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based remote ISR reconfigures the automotive system when it requires to be fixed or updated. The remote ISR improves the system flexibility and enables the system to control various functions with restricted resources in the automobiles. In addition, the remote ISR enables to redesign the circuits without replacing any hardware components for driver convenience. The ISR is implemented on an FPGA with a microcontroller unit and we successfully demonstrated the feasibility of the proposal.