Panasonic Automotive Systems and Arm Partner to Standardize Software-Defined Vehicles
07 November 2024 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. (PAS) and Arm today
announced a strategic partnership aimed at standardizing automotive
architecture for Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs). The two
organizations share a common vision for creating a software stack
with the flexibility to meet the current and future needs for
automotive and have aligned on this through their active
participation in SOAFEE*1, an industry-wide initiative that is
driving greater collaboration in standardized software development
across the automotive market. This new partnership will see PAS and
Arm adopt and extend the device virtualization framework VirtIO to
decouple automotive software development from hardware and
accelerate automotive industry development cycles.
The automotive industry increasingly consolidated Electronic
Control Units (ECUs) into a single powerful ECU such as Cockpit
Domain Controller (CDC) or High-Performance Computer (HPC). This
has made hypervisors and advanced chipsets more important than
ever. However, many automakers and tier-1 suppliers are challenged
by vendor-specific proprietary interfaces, which leads to increased
costs and delivery time when transitioning from one vendor solution
to another.
PAS and Arm recognize the need to shift from a hardware-centric
to a software-first development model to address these challenges.
By standardizing the interfaces between automaker and tier-1
supplier software stacks and the underlying hypervisors and
chipsets these run on, it is easier for automotive partners to
adopt the latest generations of technology optimized for their
needs and use cases.
This new partnership will involve several key initiatives:
1. Utilizing VirtIO-based Unified HMI to
standardize zonal architecture PAS and Arm are leveraging
VirtIO not only for virtualizing devices connected to the central
ECU like CDC/HPC, but also for remote devices linked to zonal ECUs.
The two organizations have demonstrated a groundbreaking
proof-of-concept using PAS's open-source remote GPU technology,
Unified HMI, to implement a Display Zonal Architecture built on
Arm. This architecture distributes GPU loads from the central ECU
to multiple zonal ECUs, reducing heat generation and harness weight
without altering applications running on the central ECU. The
flexible partitioning in the Mali™-G78AE GPU of Zonal ECUs
allocates dedicated hardware resources to different workloads,
enabling deterministic graphics performance in a Display Zonal
Architecture. PAS and Arm are collaborating to provide a SOAFEE
Blueprint and reference implementation of this work, aiming to
standardize emerging zonal architectures in the automotive
industry.
2. Ensuring environmental parity from
cloud to car PAS's vSkipGen™ operates on Arm® Neoverse™-based
cloud servers. By maintaining the same Arm CPU architecture and
VirtIO device virtualization framework, this initiative will ensure
full environmental parity between cloud virtual hardware and
automotive hardware. PAS and Arm will collaborate to implement
VirtIO in virtual hardware, further bridging the gap between
virtual and physical automotive systems.
3. Expanding VirtIO Standardization
Currently focused on cockpit use cases like Android Automotive™ and
Automotive Grade Linux™, PAS and Arm aim to broaden the VirtIO
standards to encompass more automotive applications. This includes
standardizing interfaces for Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) to
decouple Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) software from
hardware dependencies.
Masashige Mizuyama, Executive Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer of PAS, stated “Our partnership with Arm aims to
promote the standardization of VirtIO and bring this industry
reference standard to the next level. By combining the expertise
and industry leadership of our organizations, we are confident that
this collaboration will unlock software potential and serve as a
crucial foundation for building the future of automotive technology
towards SDV.”
Dipti Vachani, senior vice president and general manager,
Automotive Line of Business at Arm, commented “SDVs continue to be
one of the most exciting opportunities for automakers today, but
realizing this vision demands innovative approaches that allow
software developers to begin their work before physical silicon is
available. Our partnership with PAS stems from both organizations’
active participation in SOAFEE, and builds on a shared goal to
reduce fragmentation in the industry through standardization, which
will ultimately accelerate automotive development cycles for our
partners.”
Notes:
*1: SOAFEE (Scalable Open Architecture For the Embedded Edge) is
an initiative bringing the automotive and software industries
together to make the AI-enabled software-defined vehicle a reality:
www.soafee.io
Android is a trademark of Google LLC. Linux is a trademark owned
by Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.
About Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. was launched on April 1,
2022, as a business company responsible for the automotive business
in line with the start of the Panasonic Group’s business company
system. We are a global company with operations in 22 countries and
regions, approximately 30,000 employees, and sales of approximately
1,491.9 billion yen (fiscal 2023 results). As a Tier 1 company, we
provide advanced technologies unique to Panasonic, such as
infotainment systems, to automakers in Japan and overseas,
contributing to the creation of comfortable, safe, and secure
automobiles. Our corporate vision is to be the “Joy in Motion”
Design Company, and we are committed to meeting the expectations of
our customers around the world with technology that stands by
people. To learn more about our company, please visit:
https://automotive.panasonic.com/en.
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