Green Hills Software recently announced its collaboration with NXP Semiconductors to provide a combined hardware and software solution for developing and deploying safety-focused, mixed-criticality SDV zonal architectures based on NXP's new S32K5 MCU family.
This software solution features the ASIL D safety-certified µ-velOSity real-time operating system (RTOS), the µ-visor hypervisor for MCUs, and the Green Hills Compilers, and advanced MULTI debugger with system visualisation tools. This combination from NXP and Green Hills Software allows OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers to safely consolidate mixed-criticality ECU functions while reducing system complexity, lowering development cost and time-to-production while improving software reuse in new vehicle programs.
Emerging designs for next-generation vehicle electronics have to adapt to acommodate the growth and consolidation of softare features with advanced new electronics architectures. Customers need a flexible and performant compute platform that is able to safely consolidate hardware and software with freedom-from-interference while providing real-time performance, lower cost, and more system reliability features.
Additionally, time-to-market pressures require a software development environment that cuts down on the time and cost to develop, integrate, optimise, and deploy millions of lines of code in complex heterogenous multicore, multi-OS ECUs.
“As vehicle ECU functions are consolidated, automakers must ensure functional safety while reducing system complexity and development time,” said David Vieira, Senior Director, Automotive Zonal Solutions, NXP. “We’re pleased to partner with Green Hills to enable our new S32K5 MCU family with solutions to help auto makers accelerate and streamline vehicle development without compromising on safety.”
“Green Hills is thrilled to be working with NXP to provide early and extensive enablement for NXP’s latest microcontroller family, the S32K5,” added Dan Mender, Vice President, Business Development, Green Hills Software. “By using our comprehensive production-focused software solutions, customers can develop their next-generation zonal and domain controllers with the most performant, scalable, configurable offerings available, significantly reducing the time to production and cost to develop.”
This combined hardware and software solution is suited for automotive applications targeting up to ISO 26262 ASIL D certification including zone controllers, domain controllers, premium body and safety controllers. The S32K5 family of MCUs provides high performance, increased networking capability, and innovative hardware-enforced safety isolation, all at low power consumption.
