Kernkonzept joins the automotive community of interest SOAFEE to co-develop a scalable, open embedded architecture for automotive as an open-source software developer.
Our Dresden-based software development company is a new member of the Special Interest Group of SOAFEE: the project to develop a Scalable Open Architecture for Embedded Edge. Car manufacturers, semiconductor vendors, cloud technology companies, and open-source software development companies are working together in this community of interest.
SOAFEE was founded in 2021 by the respected British semiconductor manufacturer Arm. Its governing body consists of other renowned software companies like RedHat, Bosch, or Continental. Until today, SOAFEE has been joined by more than 75 members.
The SOAFEE architecture seeks to re-use existing open standards for the components in its deployment framework for automotive workloads. Those standards will then be extended to meet the mixed-criticality requirements of automotive applications. The initial SOAFEE R1 that can be used to start enabling automotive DevOps using cloud-native fundamentals is available for download on Gitlab.
We will provide our expertise in design and development of operating systems and system architectures to the group. Our field-proven, open-source L4Re Hypervisor and the L4Re Operating System Framework provide a wide range of applications, from small micro-controllers to large servers.
A unified, scalable, cloud-native software architecture for mixed-critical automotive applications with a corresponding open-source reference implementation is the declared goal of SOAFEE. As a member of the SOAFEE Special Interest Group (SIG), we will work hard to establish a cloud-native development paradigm for efficient edge workloads.
We consider being a member in the SOAFEE network as an honor and a stepping stone to new application areas. Our L4Re Operating System Framework is excellently suited for real-time applications and virtualization in the automotive sector and is already being used here.