ARM offers functional safety package for ARM® Cortex®-A
processors as it broadens its support for automotive
ARM is licensing functional safety support across its Cortex-A,
Cortex-R and Cortex-M processor families to deliver even stronger
alignment for automotive use as the industry seeks to meet rapidly
rising compute demands. This will help the ARM ecosystem shape next
generation technologies as vehicle manufacturers plan increasingly
complex driver assistance and infotainment systems. ARM-based SoCs
are already widely used in the automotive sector.
According to ARM, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)
equipped vehicles will require at least 100x more compute
performance by 2024 compared to 2016 models, with functional safety
an industry priority. By offering the first-ever applications
processor functional safety package for partners ARM is helping to
enable this vision. Currently, companies must build complete safety
cases on a chip-by-chip basis, duplicating effort and increasing
industry costs. Greater supply chain efficiency is vital for
vehicle makers who must balance increasing compute demands with
next generation models but still deliver competitive pricing.
“Exciting new technologies are being deployed by manufacturers
to make vehicle intelligence the prime consideration for
consumers,” said Richard York, vice president of embedded marketing
at ARM. “ADAS promises far greater intelligence and road safety,
and the efficiency advantages of the ARM ecosystem mean our
partners are well-positioned to deliver this technology. Today’s
announcement re-affirms our commitment to help shape future
automotive markets.”
ARM Cortex-A Safety Documents Package
- Support for future Cortex-A processors
with initial packages for Cortex-A57, Cortex-A72 and Cortex-A53
processor licensees
- Helps development and safety assessment
of SoC designs to help meet the goals of functional safety
standards such as ISO 26262 and IEC 61508
- Delivers a safety manual, FMEA report
and development interface report
“With an 18 percent unit CAGR, ADAS features are exhibiting the
highest growth within the automotive electronics domain as vehicle
makers look to differentiate on enhanced product safety,” said
Chris Webber, vice president of automotive at research firm
Strategy Analytics. “These technologies are stepping stones on
the road to fully autonomous driving systems which will demand
robust functional safety integrated within the control architecture
development. This must be coupled with processors capable of higher
performance code execution and data throughput.”
Increasing Vehicle Compute Performance
The path to high performance, automotive-grade, System on Chips
(SoCs) will enable future ADAS based on radar and vision technology
and other driver assist and infotainment capabilities.
Today, premium cars have more than 100 processors on board
utilizing tens of millions of lines of code. To meet future ADAS
demands, ARM expects processor performance compared to 2016
vehicles to increase 20x by 2018, 40-50x by 2020 and 100x by 2024.
Meeting this ambition will require deeper functional safety support
and higher performance, energy-efficient SoCs.
Industry Momentum
ARM’s partners are using the latest technology to serve multiple
automotive needs such as infotainment as well as ADAS. This
includes the Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 processors, and ARM partners
Freescale® Semiconductor and Texas Instruments have now announced
they will adopt ARM’s recently launched Cortex-A72 processors for
vehicle SoCs.
Freescale: “ARM’s Cortex-A72 processor technology
delivers exceptional power and performance that aligns to
Freescale’s strategic vision of scalable solutions for our
automotive customers,” said Ron Martino, vice president of
applications processors and advanced technology adoption, MCU
organization at Freescale. “As the world’s top carmakers and their
suppliers develop infotainment systems with Freescale’s future i.MX
applications processors, the Cortex-A72 cores will play an
important role in enabling next generation services and application
performance.”
Texas Instruments (TI): “Today’s consumers expect their
driving experience to be fun with increased connectedness and
telematics functionality for entertainment purposes, as well as a
higher emphasis on ADAS applications to ensure a safe ride,” said
Curt Moore, general manager of automotive processors at TI. “As
compute performance requirements in infotainment and ADAS
applications continue to grow, ARM Cortex-A processors are critical
building blocks enabling the next generation driver experience. We
are pleased to continue to enable our customers to push the
envelope of performance in the ADAS and Infotainment markets
through our licensing of the newest ARM Cortex-A72
processor.”
Partner quotes for Cortex-A Functional Safety Support
Daimler AG: “With the move to ever increasing driver
assistance and ever-more connected vehicles, safety systems
and advanced driver interfaces, the compute power requirements of
vehicles is set to significantly increase,” said Prof. Dr. Ralf
Herrtwich, director of driver assistance and chassis systems at
Daimler AG. “This is why ARM Cortex-A processors are increasingly
being used for automotive applications. ARM extending its
commitment and safety investment across its core portfolio, enables
us to meet requirements of functional safety standards such as ISO
26262 for ADAS systems.”
Renesas: “Renesas has been offering ARM-based SoC
technology to the Automotive Information System market for several
generations and in multiple products, ” said by Masahiro Suzuki,
vice president and chief of automotive information system business
division at Renesas Electronics Corporation. “We believe safety
features that enable ADAS and automotive cockpit systems are
becoming an essential element and functional safety is engrained in
the nature of Renesas. We are expanding our strategic partnership
with ARM to achieve a safer, more secure and comfortable driving
environment powered by Renesas automotive products. ”
Xilinx: “Xilinx is already in full automotive OEM
production and is a leader in enabling flexible and scalable ADAS
camera systems with our 28nm Zynq-7000 SoCs with dual-core
Cortex-A9,” said Nick DiFiore, director of the automotive segment
at Xilinx. “As ADAS performance and functional safety requirements
increase, Xilinx will remain on the leading edge with our Zynq
UltraScale+ MPSoC architecture which integrates ARM Cortex-A53
cores, Cortex-R5 cores, and programmable logic on a single chip.
ARM’s announcement and investment in functional safety is very
welcome as we work closely with our automotive customers at the
silicon and system level to clear the hurdles associated with the
ISO-26262 Automotive Safety Integrity Levels.”
YOGITECH: “We are seeing multiple inquiries with
increasing emphasis and urgency on functional safety compliance and
are happy to extend our offer of certified Software Test Libraries
(fRSTL) to ARM Cortex-A processors,” said Silvano Motto, CEO of
YOGITECH. “This will enable customers to combine the ARM Safety
Package with YOGITECH SW Test Libraries to cover all aspects of
ISO26262 standard from systematic to HW random failures.”
Notes to Editors
ARM in Automotive
In early 2015, ARM announced that safety documentation and
support was available for Cortex-R5. The Cortex-R5 is an advanced
and cost-effective real-time processor for embedded applications,
and it has already been widely adopted by silicon vendors to
develop automotive applications. ARM will expand its safety support
for the Cortex-M7, ARM’s highest performance Cortex-M processor and
Cortex-M0+, Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4 processors that are widely used
in microcontroller applications later this year.
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