Entering 2023, the upgrading of vehicle electronic architecture will enter a new cycle. Whether it is intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, body control or information network security, software empowerment is still the main theme of the industry.
As a third-party research and consulting organization for the smart car track, Gaogong Intelligent Automobile Research Institute continues to help car companies and investment institutions find software suppliers with core competitiveness.
Starting from August 2, we will successively release the shortlist of TOP10 suppliers of the annual smart car software subdivision track, and the final list of award-winning companies will be announced at the Gaogong Smart Car Software Summit on August 30-31.
Shortlisted for the first batch of middleware solution providers:
ETAS Automotive Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
As the world's leading provider of embedded software development and automotive information security solutions and services, ETAS provides end-to-end solutions and tool ecosystems for automakers.
In order to support the need for rapid software iteration, ETAS provides an end-to-end full-stack solution based on the DevOps process. The product portfolio includes vehicle basic software, middleware, and development tools for realizing software-defined vehicles.
For the vehicle-mounted operating system, in addition to providing AUTOSAR-based vehicle-mounted middleware and solutions, ETAS has also added the automatic driving middleware AOS to solve the problems of automatic driving certainty and big data copying.
At the same time, the tool chain included in the middleware provides end-to-end functions by using open source software, fully complies with the new industry standard (VSS), and greatly shortens the development work by using cloud-native solutions.
Guoke Foundation Stone (Chongqing) Software Co., Ltd.
The Photon series of operating systems independently developed by Guoke Foundation Stone include Photon Linux for the autonomous driving domain of smart cars, Photon Smart Operating System, and Photon RTOS for the smart car control domain. Virtualization solution under the computing architecture - Phonton Hypervisor, as well as Phonton tuning and diagnostic tools.
At the beginning of this year, Guoke Foundation officially announced its open source operating system plan, which is the first time to open source the basic Linux used in the field of smart car autonomous driving. Up to now, the Linux version of the operating system launched by Guoke Foundation Stone has formed a certain community scale.
In addition, Guoke Foundation Stone also launched the basic light middleware adaptive software platform, which provides rich service abstraction interfaces and middleware compatible interfaces, and provides middleware architecture adaptive interfaces for southbound, compatible with AutoSAR and ROS2 middleware service frameworks; northbound Provide a unified and standardized vehicle-level abstract interface to improve the migration efficiency of application software.
Beijing Huayutong Soft Technology Co., Ltd.
Huayutongsoft is committed to providing a fully autonomous, controllable and highly scalable intelligent driving basic software platform and customized solutions for smart cars. The SWIFT DDS launched by it is the first high-performance communication middleware developed independently based on the DDS standard in China.
At the end of last year, "Swift" communication middleware (SWIFT DDS) obtained the ISO 26262 ASIL D level functional safety product certification, becoming the first high-performance communication middleware in China that was completely independently developed based on the OMG DDS standard and passed ASIL D certification.
At the same time, Huayutongsoft also launched the "Swift" real-time version (SWIFT DDS-RT), which runs on computing units with limited resources, such as MCU, ARM M core, ARM R core, etc., and provides complete functions.
In addition, Huayutongsoft also released the "Skylark" execution management middleware, which has the advantages of cross-platform, easy integration, and high security. Through reasonable interface design and module division, it helps customers greatly improve the development efficiency of applications.
Shanghai Yingchi Technology Co., Ltd.
Yingchi Technology focuses on the research and development and service of high-performance computing software platforms for smart cars and autonomous driving software products. The self-developed EMOS middleware platform supports deterministic communication and deterministic scheduling. The core module has passed TÜV Rheinland's highest level of ASIL D products certified.
EMOS is a vehicle-oriented high-performance computing software platform (autonomous driving/central computing), supporting heterogeneous, multi-chip, high-performance computing; global time synchronization of the vehicle, global task scheduling; providing a variety of system services, compatible with AUTOSAR AP platform and adaptation to a variety of underlying OS and chip platforms.
At present, intelligent driving software and domain control solutions equipped with EMOS have been mass-produced and launched on various models such as Ideal, SAIC, Nezha, and Great Wall. The company is establishing strategic partnerships with many domestic and foreign car companies, chip manufacturers, operating system and algorithm companies and other ecological partners.
Suzhou Changxing Zhijia Automobile Technology Co., Ltd.
As a subsidiary of Chuangda, Changxing Zhijia officially released the first domain control middleware RazorWareX 1.0 at the beginning of this year. This middleware is a highly reliable open software platform specially designed for intelligent driving, which can apply algorithms for intelligent driving. Offers a variety of services.
RazorWareX 1.0 configures a high-real-time, high-bandwidth communication backbone network between the chips of the domain controller and the systems of the car, fully deploys hardware computing power, shares sensor data, and provides an AI algorithm operating environment for intelligent driving. Highly reliable open software platform.
Changxing Zhijia is invested and established by Chuangda. It is a product provider for the autonomous driving domain controller computing power platform. It focuses on the development of large-scale mass production-oriented real-time Software platform and domain control platform.
Kotei Information Technology Co., Ltd.
As a future-oriented EEA framework, Kotei integrates global full-stack development capabilities and core technologies in the fields of smart cockpit, smart driving, new energy, etc. IP, launched the self-developed vehicle software platform KCarOS.
KCarOS is based on the central computing unit as the target platform, conforms to the requirements of the SOA framework, and is a basic software platform built with a series of technical standards as reference. It is also equipped with corresponding tool chains for AI algorithm development and evolution, and can be used for global full-stack software development.
Among them, the KCarOS full-stack self-developed basic software platform includes standard AP components that meet the Adaptive Autosar 20-11 specification, lightweight CP components, and real-time Ethernet protocol stacks (SOME/IP, DDS, DOIP, TSN, etc.), And self-developed Hypervisor software.
Based on the core technology of KCarOS, Kotei Information has established three domain control platforms: intelligent cockpit domain control platform, intelligent driving domain control platform, and intelligent electronic control platform, which can be combined with customers' domain control chips to realize mass-produced products quickly.