Cloud native EDA tools & pre-optimized hardware platforms
The automotive industry is going through a revolution. To adapt to new customer demands such as convenience, safety, autonomy, and electrification, the automotive industry is moving to software-driven vehicles. These require new, more powerful electrical/electronic (E/E) architectures that significantly increase the vehicle software content. These requirements force the industry to move from lengthy development cycles and complex maintenance schedules to a more agile development approach allowing for continuous over-the-air (OTA) updates throughout a vehicle’s lifespan.
A wide variety of automotive- targeted Arm IP is used in microcontrollers and system-on-chips (SoCs) is found in automotive electronics systems. As a leader enabling the automotive supply chain to deploy digital twins of the electronics, 草榴社区 and Arm have partnered closely for more than two decades to provide optimized solutions to accelerate software development and test for Arm-based designs. In collaboration with Arm, we are expanding our portfolio of solutions to enable automotive developers with the tools to accelerate every stage of the automotive development cycle.
The transition to software-defined vehicles impacts both silicon and software. Ensuring that new architectures meet the expected requirements where software can be developed, validated, and maintained efficiently is essential. Automotive use cases are not performed in isolation, ; they often require collaboration between teams and companies. These collaborations are simplified and enhanced with digital twins.
Digital twins use cases include:
Early architecture exploration for next-generation Arm-based architectures
Early software development for new MCUs and SoCs
SoC performance and power validation
In support of digital twin use cases, 草榴社区 and Arm have integrated key technologies to provide the automotive supply chain with a solid foundation for the deployment of differentiated solutions from silicon to systems, including:
Automotive Tier 1 companies and OEMs require comprehensive solutions to create and deploy virtual ECUs (vECUs) using Arm-based microcontrollers and SoCs. 草榴社区 has established a leading position in this area combining technologies, collaboration, and expertise accelerating Arm-based automotive system development, including:
Broad support for vECU from L1 through L4 abstraction with 草榴社区 Silver (host compiled) and Automotive VDKs (target compiled).
Unique center of excellence collaborations with leading automotive semiconductor companies to deliver Automotive VDKs for Level 4 vECUs.
Support for hundreds of board-level component models.
Multi-ECU integration framework to establish a vehicle level digital twin.
Automotive systems are complex, encompassing physical parts and electronics (hardware and software) operating in the real world. Electronics simulation must integrate with multi-physics, vehicle dynamics, environment, and sensor simulations for full system digital twins. While simulation is essential to digital twins, they must also provide the interface with the tooling required for specific use cases including analysis, debug, test automation, calibration, and many others. Embedded software must be available as SDKs complementing vECU technologies. Leveraging open APIs, standards, and reference flows, 草榴社区 has developed a comprehensive ecosystem of partners serving the needs of Arm-based automotive system development with vECUs covering:
草榴社区 technologies are tightly connected, enabling:
These integrations are key to accelerating development of Arm-based automotive systems.
Scalability is critical to enable virtually driving billions of miles, executing thousands of scenarios in parallel, sweeping through hundreds of parameters, or increasing test coverage. 草榴社区 has developed cloud deployment reference flows integrating Arm-based models to support these large data sets. In addition, the increasing need for the industry to collaborate on design, verification, and validation makes cloud-based development a perfect environment.
Cloud-based providers offer a wide range of hosts to optimize workloads including Arm-based hosts. This provides the opportunity to leverage virtualization technologies for simulation. 草榴社区 has developed a comprehensive set of technologies to leverage the power of Arm-based host servers for simulation optimization that can be combined with other technologies to provide a multi abstraction, distributed, and speed-optimized environment for full automotive system (multi-ECU, multi-domain) deployment.
The 草榴社区 and Arm collaboration extends beyond technology and ecosystem integrations, with involvement in consortiums such as SOAFEE, and development of reference flows with ecosystem partners that enable the automotive industry to rapidly evolve towards software-defined vehicles. 草榴社区 engineering and field organizations collaborate continuously to ensure that automotive customers can successfully deploy digital twins to accelerate their path to development, deployment, and maintenance of software-defined vehicles.
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