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A Project on

Graphics System in Vehicle


Electronics
By
Abdulbasit Shaikh
Under the guidance of
Asst. Prof Kiran Chavan
Introduction
• Nowadays vehicles contain many embedded computers. One
disadvantage is that the current use of such systems becomes static
after the development process and the possibility to update the
system is often limited to be done by professionals at service
garages. Embedded systems are getting more important in the
automotive industry and as the demands from customers increase,
the lack of possibilities to modify the systems creates a problem.
The EU research project DySCAS1 is an attempt to solve the
problem. The project started in June 2006 and will after 30 months
end during the period of this Master Thesis. The overall purpose of
the project is to create a middleware, SHAPE2 , to make it easier to
integrate consumer electronic devices in an automotive
environment. ENEA AB are involved in the project through the
creation of SHAPE and the develop of a demonstration platform to
test the essential ideas which the project is built on.
Problem Statement
• The thesis will comprise one main task and two
sub tasks. All three parts lies within the area of
program or modifying drivers. The primary
assignment of the thesis is to: • Investigate which
graphic library that best correspond to the
demands from embedded systems like DySCAS
and to program a prototype for 1Dynamically
Self-Configuring Automotive System (DySCAS),
http://www.dyscas.org/ 2 Self-configurable High
Availability and Policy base platform for
Embedded systems (SHAPE) 1 graphic drivers that
are being used with the demonstration platform.
Contributions
• A brief summary of a framework to write drivers for the
operating system OSE is given. There are essentially two ways
to write drivers that are recommended, signal-based interface
and system call interface. Based on some requirements an
analysis has been made to find out which the appropriate
graphics libraries are to use in embedded systems. A focus in
the search has been made to suit the hardware i.MX31ADS
and ENEAs operating system OSE 5. One of the requirements
has been that the graphics libraries must be operating system
independent as a future goal is to add a graphic HMI (Human-
Machine Interface) to the middleware SHAPE. SHAPE is at the
moment implemented in combination with OSE and Linux.
Theory
• It begins with a description of the ways to write device
drivers for the operating system OSE. That knowledge is
necessary to sort out several of the tasks this thesis
contains. This is followed by a study of graphics libraries
suitable for embedded systems. An adaption was made to
especially fit the hardware, i.MX31ADS, used in the thesis
graphics work. Based on the requirements of the report
two graphics libraries, OpenGL ES and Mobile 3D Graphics
API for Java, remain which could be combined to obtain a
greater width of the range of applications. Should only one
of these graphics library be used the choice is OpenGL ES,
as it is adapted for applications written in low level
languages.
Conclusion (Result)
• For the i.MX31ADS hardware there is a driver
implemented for the graphics port to Linux that
support displays with the same control signals
(VSYNC, HSYNC) as the SHARP screen that was
used during this work. The framebuffer driver,
which activates the LCD Controller driver, is used
by most graphics libraries (Qt, C/PEG, etc.) and let
applications talk directly with the systems
framebuffer. The already implemented touch
screen driver also works with the panel, and
other displays, which use the four pins on the LCD
connection port that SHARP uses.

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