Wind River and Samsung collaborate on software-defined vehicle tech

Wind River is collaborating with Samsung Electronics’ System LSI business to accelerate the software-defined vehicle development, including development of high-quality in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) solutions, cabin monitoring, and advanced driver-assistance features. The automotive industry is evolving toward the software-defined vehicle, in which more features and functions are enabled primarily through software that can be updated quickly and easily. Ensuring that developers have superior tools, processes, and structures to create, test, and update that software efficiently is a top priority for the entire industry. To help accelerate this evolution, Wind River and Samsung will collaborate to provide customers with Wind River technology on Samsung’s Exynos Auto V920 chipset, a fully integrated software and hardware solution for automotive. This integration will use Wind River Helix Virtualization Platform, a safety certifiable multi-core, multi-OS platform, allowing end users to mix a diverse set of runtime environments, safe and/or non-safe, including the VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS), Linux, and Android. “A new software-defined approach is required for designing and developing the high-performance compute systems needed for connected, autonomous, and electric vehicles,” said Avijit Sinha, chief product officer, Wind River. “Our collaboration with Samsun...