ECU in automotives are becoming more advanced and standardized. These ECUs communicate on standard networked on protocols. The proposed automotive Black Box design intends for storing and retrieving the data of various ECUs on standards CAN protocol frame. The data thus stored and retrieved can be used for introspection of cause of failure or unfortunate miss happening with the vehicle.
CAN: Controller Area Network, FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array, VHDL: Very High Speed Hardware Description Language, ADC: Analogue to Digital Converter, DIP: Dual In line Package.