Infineon Technologies, Green Hills Software cooperate to enhance safety-critical real-time automotive systems defining the new-age of SDV E/E architectures.
Propelling SDV E/E architectures innovation, the joint launch sports Green Hills’ safety-certified real-time operating system (RTOS) µ-velOSity™ and Infineon’s new generation of safety controllers AURIX™ TC4x.
This is said to provide OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers with a reliable, safe, and secure processing platform to develop domain and zonal controllers and define SDV E/E architectures.
The joint integrated platform for real-time applications also caters drivetrains for electric vehicles for their next-generation software-defined vehicle (SDV) architectures.
“Green Hills’ product philosophy for tools and the matching software environment support our requirements for reliable products and solutions very well,” said Thomas Schneid, Senior Director for Software, Partnership and Ecosystem Management at Infineon. “Combined with advanced microcontroller products such as the AURIX TC4x family, our customers gain a significant advantage in meeting their critical requirements.”
“We are excited to extend our long-standing collaboration with Infineon and showcase our joint solution at embedded world 2024,” said Dan Mender, Vice President of Business Development at Green Hills Software. “The combination of Infineon’s new scalable microcontroller family AURIX TC4x and Green Hills’ µ-velOSity RTOS will enable our joint customers to develop safe and secure systems for the next generation of SDV E/E architectures.”
Enabling the Development of Advanced ECUs
The latest automotive electronic control units (ECU) play a crucial role in the modified SDV E/E architectures. Developing these ECUs necessitates the use of new microcontrollers that can fulfill the demands of safety-critical systems like zone control, chassis, radar, electric drives, and cost-effective AI systems, through the provision of enhanced performance and cutting-edge functionalities.
The new family of AURIX TC4x devices by Family addresses these growing demands. It complements its TriCore™ multicore architecture with a safety and security accelerator suite. Moreover, to meet the stringent safety requirements, Green Hills has ported its safety-certified µ-velOSity RTOS to the AURIX TC4x family.
The advanced MULTI® integrated development environment also supports this processor family, enabling developers to shorten development times by increasing developer productivity while generating the fastest and smallest code for the AURIX TC4x.
Infineon’s AURIX TC4x Family Provides
- Upward migration path from the previous AURIX TC3x family of ASIL-compliant automotive MCUs.
- AURIX TC4x uses the next-generation TriCore 1.8 and a scalable accelerator suite.
- Including the new Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) as well as several intelligent accelerators, in areas such as data routing, digital signal processing, radar processing and cryptographic computing.
- The AURIX TC4x family supports high-speed interfaces, including Gigabit Ethernet, PCIe, CAN-XL or 10BASE T1S Ethernet.
- Provide sufficient communication bandwidth for the next generation of automotive systems and help develop critical SDV E/E architectures.
The Green Hills µ-velOSity RTOS targets the highest functional safety levels (ISO 26262 ASIL D). Based on an efficient and reliable kernel with a minimal footprint and a simple API, it also offers fast boot and streamlined execution. In addition, µ-velOSity is tightly integrated with the MULTI safety-certified tools and compilers.
Demonstration at the embedded world 2024
Green Hills and Infineon will showcase their solution at embedded world 2024, April 9-11, at the Green Hills booth 4-325.
Infineon at embedded world
embedded world will take place in Nuremberg, Germany, from 9 to 11 April, 2024. Infineon will present its products and solutions for decarbonization and digitalization in hall 4A, booth #138 and virtually. Company representatives will also hold several TechTalks as well as presentations at the accompanying embedded world Conference, followed by discussions with the speakers.