In connected car news are STRADVISION, Renesas, Wind River, TomTom, StreetLight, Synopsys, PikeTec and HARMAN.
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STRADVISION & R-Car PPP
STRADVISION, an automotive industry pioneer in deep learning-based vision perception technology, has been selected as a Renesas’ R-Car Consortium Proactive Partner Program member for five consecutive years.
The R-Car Consortium, established by Renesas, serves as an inclusive platform that unites system integrators, middleware/application developers, operating systems, and tool vendors. This collaborative space empowers customers to access tailored solutions for their specific needs. Within this framework, partners offer expertise to develop cutting-edge connected cars and ADAS solutions jointly.
Meeting the consortium’s benchmarks of “open,” “innovative,” and “trusted,” STRADVISION successfully earned recognition as a 2023 Proactive Partner, backed by a strong track record in the automotive sector. This achievement facilitates swift customer engagement, exemplifying their commitment to excellence.
Through this initiative, STRADVISION will enhance its expertise through a range of activities encompassing promotion, technical support, education, and more. These endeavors are aimed at precisely aligning with customer needs and demands.
“Attaining membership in the Renesas R-Car Consortium Proactive Partner Program for five successive years is truly an honor,” stated STRADVISION’s COO and US CEO, Sunny Lee. “Seizing this moment, we intend to forge fresh business connections within the automotive sector, thereby making meaningful contributions to the advancement of ADAS technology.”
Since the joint announcement of collaboration in September 2019, STRADVISION has maintained a close partnership with Renesas. Their collaboration is centered around the development of a deep learning-based object recognition solution tailored for smart cameras utilized in ADAS applications.
STRADVISION’s SVNet is an ultra-light, high-efficiency solution that implements deep learning-based object recognition with minimal computation and power consumption. It supports over 18 System-on-Chips (SoCs) platforms and provides over 30 object recognition functions. It actively participates in multiple projects for mass-producing vehicle models with autonomous driving level 2 or higher, leveraging solid technology and flexibility gained from mass production in the automobile industry.
Wind River Linus for ZEEKR
Wind River, a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems, announced that Wind River Linux has been selected by global electric mobility technology brand ZEEKR to power its future electronic and electrical architecture for software-defined vehicles.
Wind River Linux, which includes a comprehensive suite of tools and lifecycle services for building and supporting intelligent edge solutions, will be embedded in the future ZEEKR Electronic and Electrical Architecture (ZEEA) platform.
“The role of software is increasingly important for the automobile industry. Software can unlock new possibilities to grow value for both car makers and consumers,” said Avijit Sinha, chief product officer, Wind River. “Wind River Linux can help automotive innovators like ZEEKR implement modernized development frameworks that leverage AI in the cloud and at the edge, combined with software lifecycle management capabilities, to enable them to accelerate their innovations and drive the realization of software-defined vehicles forward.”
Delivering the embedded industry’s most advanced Linux platform, Wind River Linux enables teams to develop, deploy, and operate robust, reliable, and secure embedded solutions running on a purpose-built Linux operating system.
TomTom Partners with StreetLight Data
TomTom (TOM2), the location technology specialist, announced a new partnership with StreetLight Data, Inc. (StreetLight), a subsidiary of Jacobs (NYSE: J) and the leading Big Data company providing insights into how people, goods, and services move. This partnership includes incorporating TomTom’s best-in-class global data into StreetLight’s growing line of cloud-based products that support transportation professionals with the most critical analytics, for any road and any mode.
The StreetLight InSight® platform transforms data into contextualized, normalized, and aggregated travel patterns. Through this partnership, StreetLight leverages TomTom’s historical and real-time traffic analytics based on anonymized speed data from more than 600 million connected devices. The result is deep global data coverage and a robust analytic platform that empowers planners and other transportation professionals with data driven insights to inform transportation and infrastructure projects of any size and scope.
“We are excited to partner with an industry leader like StreetLight to deliver reliable and scalable mobility measurement tools to address today’s complex transportation problems,” said Ralf-Peter Schäfer, Vice President for Traffic & Travel Information at TomTom. “By combining our data from millions of trips globally with StreetLight’s industry-tailored solutions, we enable transportation planners, road authorities and businesses to make informed, accurate decisions, thereby reducing congestion and improving mobility.”
“As StreetLight looks to expand into new products and geographies, we’re excited to partner with TomTom,” said Laura Schewel, StreetLight CEO and VP of Transportation Software at Jacobs. “TomTom offers a huge increase in sample size, rich data characteristics, and global reach. By integrating TomTom’s origin and destination trip information, we will open up powerful new solutions for our clients in infrastructure planning, combatting climate change and improving transportation for all.”
Synopsys & PikeTec
Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) announced it has completed the acquisition of PikeTec GmbH. PikeTec is one of the leaders in solutions for the testing and verification of automotive software for control unit systems.
The emergence of software-defined vehicles (SDVs) is accelerating the rapid growth of electronics content in vehicles that manage its operations, functionality, and features primarily or entirely through software. The growing complexity of SDV systems, comprised of software, sensors, computing, and mechatronic functionality, is compounding the test and verification effort required, and rapidly becoming the biggest challenge for automobile manufacturers and their suppliers in getting a SDV to market.
“As the automotive industry evolves towards software-defined vehicles, so does the need for more efficient and effective software testing methods,” said Jens Lüdemann, CEO at PikeTec. “Joining Synopsys reflects our commitment to enable automotive OEMs with the most comprehensive virtualization and testing solutions that help them scale to deliver high quality software.”
PikeTec test automation tools enable intuitive and flexible testing across all phases of development and simulation environments ranging from Model-in-the-Loop (MiL) to Vehicle-in-the-Loop (ViL). As the volume and complexity of software increases, it is pushing testing of automotive software to earlier stages of product development with models, software, and processors in virtual environments. The combination of Synopsys’ leading Software-in-the-Loop (SiL) and virtual hardware solutions with PikeTec’s test automation tools and services offers automotive companies a strong solution to bring SDVs to market faster, safer, and more secure.
HARMAN Ready Care Awarded
HARMAN was honored in Fast Company’s 2023 Innovation by Design Awards in the Automotive category for its new Ready Care product and its purposeful integration of several key technologies in order to improve driver safety and well-being on the road.
The Innovation by Design Awards, which can be found in the September 2023 issue of Fast Company, honor the designers and businesses solving the most crucial problems of today and anticipating the pressing issues of tomorrow. The competition, now in its 12th year, features a range of blue-chip companies, emerging startups, and hungry young talents. It is one of the most sought-after design awards in the industry.
HARMAN Ready Care is the latest in HARMAN Automotive’s expanding portfolio of products designed and built to deliver consumer-focused experiences at an automotive grade. Ready Care is the industry’s first closed-loop interior sensing and tailored interventions product that measures a driver’s eye activity, cognitive load and vital signs to determine the level of focus and attention on the road ahead. Using neuroscience, artificial intelligence and machine learning, Ready Care classifies a driver’s behavior into a focused versus distracted state and initiates a personalized in-cabin response to help mitigate dangerous driving situations, such as stress, anxiety, distraction and drowsiness. More information on Ready Care can be found here.