A fast and flexible HW/SW co-processing framework for Time-of-Flight 3D imaging

We demonstrate the feasible implementation and integration of the framework by means of a mixed-critical automotive system demonstrator. This demonstrator enables various types of use-case scenarios, such as gesture recognition or indoor navigation, by employing the AURIX automotive processor from Infineon Technologies and the Xilinx Zynq platform. For instance, if a typical gesture recognition use-case is addressed, the framework is capable to provide high-quality depth images and 3D-point cloud data with nearly 100 FPS and introduces an average calculation error of only 0.08 mm. Most importantly, a high level of flexibility in software and hardware is preserved in order to support other use-case scenarios at the same time.