OTS - OpenSynergy Collaborates with Google and Qualcomm on Virtualizing Android Automotive OS
2020. July 07. 07:40
Berlin, July 7, 2020. (APA/MTI) - OpenSynergy, today announced its
yearlong collaboration with Google and Qualcomm on a reference
platform with a virtualized Android Automotive OS instance running
on top of OpenSynergy's COQOS Hypervisor SDK and Qualcomm's
Snapdragon SA8155 automotive System on Chip (SoC).
Google has announced collaborations with several vehicle
manufacturers to power in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems with
Android Automotive OS, Google's open-source Android platform.
The automotive sector is moving towards consolidating
increasingly complex and heterogeneous hardware subsystems such as
the Instrument Cluster, Infotainment, Head up display etc. onto a
single System on Chip (SoC) with mixed-criticality (safety-critical
& non-critical) requirements. This enables tighter software
integration between the subsystems, and allows for cost & weight
savings. Hence, Google is working on virtualization of Android
Automotive OS by leveraging and extending VIRTIO, an established
virtualization standard maintained by the OASIS consortium, which
Google is a member of. Virtualization allows multiple operating
systems ('guests') with mixed-criticality requirements to share the
same hardware ('host') managed by host software ('hypervisor').
Android Automotive OS will be supported as a guest virtual machine
on automotive industry standard based hypervisors.
Last year Google, OpenSynergy and Qualcomm decided to
collaborate on the implementation of this reference platform. Goal
of this platform, which is planned to be released soon, is to show
how Android Automotive OS can be safely and securely integrated on
a powerful System on Chip (SoC) using open standards based virtual
platform.
The VIRTIO standard
VIRTIO, a device-sharing standard popular in the cloud domain,
provides the transport layer and device models for essential
computing devices such as Block, Network, Console, GPU, Input, etc.
The DMA-like nature of the devices allows high-performance
implementations as an alternative to hardware assisted I/O
virtualization models while still providing ease of implementation
and safety.
OpenSynergy joined the OASIS consortium in 2019 to pioneer the
expansion of VIRTIO in the automotive domain. At the same time the
company contributed with several VIRTIO devices to the Linux
kernel. Thanks to the expertise gathered in the open source domain,
OpenSynergy currently provides the most mature open-standard-driven
virtual platform in the automotive industry.
Regis Adjamah, CEO of OpenSynergy: "Embracing VIRTIO was a
major milestone for our automotive-grade COQOS Hypervisor SDK. It
is good news for all our customers currently in the process of
upgrading their IVI programs. We are complementing our lean, OS-
agnostic, type 1 hypervisor with the open-standard device sharing
technology VIRTIO. We aggressively pursue the adoption of open
standards by investing in open source. We believe the time has come
for the automotive industry to abandon proprietary solutions, to
embrace open standards and compete on the quality of their
implementation".
By showing how Android Automotive OS can be deployed and ported
without further modification on different SoCs and different
hypervisors, the reference platform will help VIRTIO to expand its
scope to the automotive domain. VIRTIO provides maximum flexibility
to OEMs and Tier 1 partners, enabling them to easily switch between
SoCs, hypervisors and host/guest operating systems, to best match
their needs.
Google and Android are trademarks of Google LLC.
About OpenSynergy
OpenSynergy provides embedded software products for the next
generation of vehicles. Our hypervisor and communication products
pave the way for an integrated driving experience.
The virtualization platform COQOS Hypervisor SDK supports the
convergence of software-based vehicle functions with different
requirements on safety and security. It is designed for
multi-display cockpit controllers, smart antennae or powerful
domain controllers using a mix of AUTOSAR technology and open
solutions, such as Linux and Android.
OpenSynergy is active member of several standardization bodies
relevant in the Automotive industry, such as OASIS (Organization
for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), AUTOSAR,
GENIVI Alliance and Linux Foundation (Automotive Grade Linux).
Our engineering services complement the products.
Read on www.opensynergy.com
Contact
OpenSynergy GmbH
Sabine Mutumba
Director of Marketing
Rotherstr. 20
D-10245 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0)30.60 98 540-41
Email: marketing@opensynergy.com
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