Virtualization In The Car
By: Ann Steffora Mutschler
How and why abstraction layers are becoming essential in automotive design.
As the automotive industry grapples with complexity due to electrification and increasing autonomy of vehicles, consolidation of ECUs within vehicles, more stringent safety and security requirements, automotive ecosystem players are looking to virtualization concepts in a number of ways to realize the vehicles of tomorrow.
“Processor cores for automotive applications evolve slowly,” said Shaun Giebel, director of product management at OneSpin Solutions. “To support virtualization, additional hardware functions are needed. Combined with more software layers, this makes the overall verification and functional safety compliance even more complex. Formal verification of certain low-level software functions is already in use in specific safety spaces. Adding the formal verification of hardware is the only way to be highly confident that the system performs as intended, and that it is free from interferences and critical performance bottlenecks.”
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And that could greatly speed up and improve the development process of more autonomous vehicles.
