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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 and significantly increase the vehicle software content. They also 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 over the vehicle lifespans.
A wide variety of automotive-targeted Arm IP is used in microcontrollers and system-on-chips found in automotive electronics systems. As a leader enabling the automotive supply chain to deploy electronics digital twins, Synopsys has partnered closely with Arm for more than two decades to provide advanced solutions. The software-defined vehicle transformation driving the automotive market will benefit from this solid foundation in multiple areas resulting in lower verification and validation costs and faster more differentiated innovation.
We have written two blogs 'Synopsys Collaborates with Arm to Drive Automotive Design Excellence', and 'Synopsys and Arm Collaboration - Accelerating Development and Innovation for Arm-based Automotive Systems' describing in depth how we are working with Arm to enable automotive solutions..
Supporting a Broad Range of Use Cases
Automotive use cases are not performed in isolation, they often require collaboration between teams and companies. These collaborations are simplified and enhanced with electronics digital twins.
Early architecture exploration for next-generation Arm-based architectures
Early software development for new MCUs and SoCs
SoC performance and power validation
Electronic Control Unit (ECU), vehicle platform software, and application software development and test
Features
Virtual ECU Abstraction
To support software-defined vehicles, the automotive industry is looking to move from lengthy development cycles and complex maintenance schedules to a more agile development approach. It requires moving from software development and validation using physical ECUs and benches to digital twins of the electronics. It brings important benefits such as frontloading the validation effort, testing scalability, and better ecosystem collaboration. Learn about the various abstraction levels, and applicability from Level 1 through Level 4, as well as Synopsys' broad support.
Virtual MCU and SoC Models
Through our Center of Excellence collaboration with leading semiconductor companies, Synopsys is delivering the latest virtual prototypes for automotive microcontroller and system-on-chip designs for automotive companies to start development earlier. Early specification, access to software and test suite, joint development and validation, proactive roadmap development, joint ecosystem enablement, and simplified single source access ensure fast, high quality and early virtual prototypes. Combined with 100s of board level components, electronics digital twin of automotive systems can be deployed faster.
Multi-ECU Simulation
Automotive systems bring together multiple ECUs. Synopsys technologies enable automotive companies to build digital twin of the electronics combining multiple virtual ECUs at mixed level of abstraction. Such multi-ECU simulation environment allows for optimized used case coverage and performance integrating Silver-based (L1-L3) and Virtualizer-based (L4) virtual ECUs. They can be deployed in high-performance computing environments or in the clouds.
Cloud Deployment
Cloud deployment is essential to achieve the highest level of deployment of digital twins for electronics. From providing powerful end-to-end developer toolchains to scaling for peak validation demand, Synopsys has developed reference flows with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. With these partnerships, automotive companies developing software-defined vehicles can easily scale to drive billions of miles, test multiple configurations, and increase coverage testing. Learn more from Synopsys/AWS webinar and Synopsys/Microsoft video.
Webinar
Ecosystem Enablement
Full automotive system digital twins require multi-physics, vehicle dynamics, environment, sensor simulations, and tools such as analysis, debug, test automation or calibration in support of specific use cases and embedded software. Leveraging open APIs, standards, and reference flows, Synopsys has developed a comprehensive ecosystem of partners to accelerate Arm-based automotive system development.
- Vehicle and environment/sensor simulation.
- Embedded software IP from AUTOSAR to LINUX, Android, ROS, QNX, and others.
- Debuggers, test automation, and engineering tools for measurement and calibration.
- Support of hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) systems and physical hardware.
Technology Integration
Synopsys and Arm provide a full range of integrated models for the latest Arm automotive IP in support of digital twin use cases
- Arm Interconnect Performance Models are supported by Platform Architect.
- Arm Fast Models are integrated with the Synopsys Virtualizer tool and automotive VDKs for early SW development.
- Arm Fixed Virtual Platforms are configurable and extendable in Virtualizer to create full MCU/SoC models including Synopsys IP
- The Synopsys ZeBu and HAPS emulation and prototyping platforms execute Arm RTL for power and performance validation and hybrid solutions with Virtualizer for software bring-up.
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