Wind River, a leading provider of software for critical intelligent systems, has announced a new partnership with Samsung Electronics’ System LSI Business. The two companies will work together to accelerate the development of software-defined vehicles, creating high-quality in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) solutions, cockpit monitoring, and advanced driver-assistance systems.
The automotive industry is evolving toward software-defined vehicles, where more and more functions and features are driven by software and can be updated quickly and easily. Ensuring that developers have excellent tools, processes, and structures to effectively create, test, and update software is a top priority for the entire industry.
To accelerate this evolution, Wind River will provide its software technology to customers based on the Samsung Exynos Auto V920 chipset, creating a fully integrated set of automotive software and hardware solutions. The core of this solution is the Wind River Helix™ Virtualization Platform. This is a safety-certified multi-core, multi-operating system platform that allows end-users to converge runtime environments with different safety requirements, including the VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS), Linux, and Android.
Designing and developing connected, autonomous, and electric vehicles requires a new software-defined approach and high-performance computing systems. By partnering with Samsung, we can help OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers inherit and develop the technology and experience accumulated over three decades in fields such as aerospace and defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications. This will enable them to build the software systems that are critical to future software-defined vehicles and meet various levels of critical certification requirements.
The Exynos Auto V920 is our latest 5nm automotive processor, providing powerful intelligent performance and a higher level of in-vehicle experience for greater vehicle safety. This system can run multiple applications on multiple virtual machines at the same time in an energy-efficient manner, thereby meeting the industry’s low-power consumption needs. Through close collaboration with Wind River, we can strengthen our industry-leading IVI development efforts and further expand into multiple safety-critical areas through Wind River’s leading runtime environments.