Software company Synopsys and Zenuity, a joint venture between Veoneer and Volvo Cars, are joining the Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC). This consortium sets itself the goal of enabling the development of safe and affordable autonomous vehicles at scale.
Established in October 2019, the AVCC aims to develop fully self-driving vehicles by collaborating at the industry level. The consortium is initially working on recommendations for a system architecture and computing platform. These recommendations are tailored to the performance requirements of autonomous vehicles, on the one hand, and vehicle-specific requirements and constraints, such as temperature, energy consumption and safety, on the other.
Cross-industry collaboration
"The Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium aims to address the complexities and obstacles related to the deployment of autonomous vehicles," explains Armando Pereira, chairman of the AVCC. Consortium members join forces by sharing knowledge and ideas and studying common technological challenges together. The consortium thus enables cross-industry collaboration.
At the launch, the consortium included Arm, Bosch, Continental, DENSO, General Motors, NVIDIA, NXP Semiconductors and Toyota. "The hardware and software requirements of autonomous vehicles are enormous, requiring an energy-efficient and high-performance AI platform to process sensor data and achieve the highest level of safety," said Gary Hicok, senior vice president of Automotive Hardware and Software Systems at NVIDIA, at the launch of the AVCC in October.
Massimo Osella, board chairman of the AVCC and lab group manager, Research & Development at General Motors said at the time, "The huge amount of technological innovation required to power self-driving vehicles at scale requires industry-level collaboration."
'The future of the automotive industry'
Semiconductor solutions provider Renesas Electronics already joined the consortium at the end of October. Developer of car safety systems and self-driving technology Veoneer followed in November. So now Synopsys and Zenuity are also joining. Zenuity is a joint venture of Veoneer with Volvo Cars.
"Autonomous vehicles are the future of the automotive industry and require huge amounts of electronic hardware and software," said Burkhard Huhnke, vice president Automotive at Synopsys. "Synopsys' 'triple shift left' strategy aims to address functional safety, security and reliability challenges in the automotive industry with a broad suite of automotive intellectual property, design and verification solutions, and software. The Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium enables us to join forces with leading automotive experts to advance the development of automotive systems."
Author: Wouter Hoeffnagel
