This will transform the whole process of automotive software development: Our partner Arm has just launched a new suite of its Automotive Enhanced IP on a virtual platform, and our L4Re Hypervisor family is fully compatible with the latest Arm® automotive technology.
In today’s automotive landscape, success is increasingly defined by software innovation. Pressured by the growing AI and software needs of modern automotive applications, the industry has to constantly bring out new innovations. Digital twins are playing an ever-growing role in shaping the future of software-defined vehicles – they are presenting a fundamental rethink of the product development process.
By leveraging this new technology, developers can initiate software development as soon as a new processor generation is released in a virtual development environment. This simultaneous hardware and software development process eliminates the need to wait for physical silicon.
Digital twins allow automotive manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers to streamline their software development processes, making the whole process a lot less complex and time-consuming, accelerating innovation in the automotive sector.
There are several advantages in this new parallel development processes:
- significantly faster time-to-market
- significantly accelerated software development process (by 2 years!) through parallelization of processes
- faster functional safety certification and
- better overall quality control
With this in mind, we’re pleased to announce our collaboration with Arm®: Our open-source L4Re Hypervisor family supports the latest Arm® processor designs and integrates seamlessly with the latest Arm® automotive technology.
Moreover, the L4Re Hypervisor family is versatile, supporting various Arm® architectures and offering consistent abstraction layers between hardware and software. This flexibility facilitates hardware-independent, scalable system and software development.
Developers can partition and isolate safety-critical systems (such as body domain control) from non-safety critical systems (e.g., infotainment) to ensure that critical systems are isolated and safely managed in the event of system failure. The L4Re Hypervisor family can do this on various Arm® architectures, including the latest state-of-the-art Arm® processors.
With the new Arm® virtual platforms, combined with the L4Re Hypervisor family, features and applications can be developed independent of the specific processor variant. Our L4Re Hypervisors run on Arm’s high performance CPUs as well as on power-saving versions or other variants.
Our open-source L4Re technology ensures high transparency and security, with its roots tracing back to 1996 at the Dresden University of Technology. As proud members of SOAFEE, the Scalable Open Architecture for Embedded Edge Special Interest Group, we’re committed to fostering an open and secure ecosystem for automotive IT systems, extending all the way to the (automotive) cloud.