ETAS and BlackBerry QNX to Jointly Develop Software Platform Based on AUTOSAR Adaptive
ETAS and BlackBerry QNX business will cooperate to jointly develop and market a safety-critical platform for use in next generation connected and autonomous vehicles. ETAS provides solutions for the development of embedded systems for the automotive industry and Blackberry is a security software and services company. The companies announced that they will combine their assets to develop and sell a software platform and associated tools for vehicle computers and domain controllers based on the AUTOSAR Adaptive standard.
This solution unites BlackBerry QNX’s POSIX compliant (POSIX stands for Portable Operating System Interface, and is an IEEE standard designed to facilitate application portability), safety-certified real time operating system and Hypervisor as well as ETAS’s expertise in functional safety and basic software based on the AUTOSAR Adaptive standard (Standard based on POSIX operating systems and is a future-proof basis for automotive ECUs). It aims to provide the high performance, safe, and secure foundation for the development of microprocessor based vehicle computer/domain controller electronic control units (ECUs). The solution will be also compliant to the ISO26262:2018 standard allowing use in systems up to, and including, ASIL-D.
ETAS and BlackBerry QNX claim this software platform solution and the AUTOSAR Adaptive standard will become increasingly important to support the automotive industry moving towards connected, autonomous, personalized, and electrified mobility as well as associated changes in electronic and electric (E/E) vehicle architectures. Powerful vehicle computers based on microprocessor technology will form a decision-making layer in the next generation of automotive E/E architectures and coordinate formerly decentralized ECUs. This leads to a separation of software from hardware and requires the capability to integrate software from different sources and application domains.
With the establishment of this cooperation, ETAS and BlackBerry QNX unite their competencies to accelerate the support for this rapid technology change in the automotive industry. In addition, they will enable applications in the areas of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Vehicle to Everything communication (V2X), multimedia, and Over-the-Air (OTA) updates.
Source: Press Release
