Cognizant Mobility at Embedded World 2024: SDV development becomes cloud-native
At Embedded World 2024, Cognizant Mobility will be demonstrating how vehicle manufacturers can benefit from the advantages of fully virtual development using the Embedded Pipeline: an end-to-end, virtual process chain for the hardware-independent development of functions for software-defined vehicles. Reusable building blocks and the interaction between ARM design, SOAFEE and the AUTOSAR standard make embedded development more efficient and sustainable.
Nuremberg, February 15th, 2024 - Cognizant Mobility will be showcasing a process chain for the fully virtual development of embedded software at Embedded World in Nuremberg from April 9-11, 2024. Visitors will be able to follow all three steps of the virtual workflow live and in real time: development, integration into a virtual target and finally deployment to the real target, i.e. a corresponding vehicle model.
With this pipeline, Cognizant Mobility supports vehicle manufacturers and system developers in mastering the paradigm shift to the SDV. In the software-defined vehicle of the future, as many (customer) features as possible should ideally share a central computing unit instead of being tied to specific control units. In reality, however, many OEMs still find it difficult to view and test functions of the future product separately from the hardware. As a result, a function is inextricably linked to a specific control unit; related functions cannot share the same hardware and can only be updated slowly.
100 percent virtual and cloud-native
With this in mind, Cognizant Mobility and its partners within the SDV Alliance rely on a 100% virtual cloud-native development approach. Embedded software is developed in accordance with the AUTOSAR standard within powerful frameworks (including software components from partner Elektrobit), integrated into software containers and tested. These containers are then integrated into a virtual version of the hardware. The pipeline is based on the SOAFEE framework. Its integrated virtualization support enables developers to test all functions - even if the hardware does not yet exist.
The ARM design used ensures compatibility between the virtual targets and the subsequent "real" hardware. The processors used in the cloud are also already based on ARM. Only in the third step are the software containers transferred 1:1 over-the-air to the hardware, i.e. the control units. Thanks to this targeted front-loading, real functions can be tested very early on in the development process. This means that potential errors can be rectified early enough before they cause major costs. In addition, virtual development makes it possible to split up various features at an early stage - an important step towards the complete decoupling of hardware and software in vehicle development.
"The interaction between ARM design, SOAFEE and the AUTOSAR standard allows software development to be significantly accelerated and made more sustainable. Our reusable development components and powerful frameworks also save a lot of development time. As part of the SDV Alliance, we are very proud to be able to successfully combine these worlds," says Jens Schmidt, Head of Embedded Software at Cognizant Mobility.
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