Automakers Empowered to Accelerate Cockpit Development
Timelines
WATERLOO, ON, Oct. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry
Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced the availability of a
QNX® Hypervisor and VIRTIO-based reference design to
virtualize Android Automotive OS on the 3rd Generation
Snapdragon® Automotive Cockpit Platform, helping
automakers to deliver the ultimate cockpit experience while
accelerating time to market.
The automotive industry is consolidating disparate in-cabin
functionality such as digital instrument clusters, infotainment and
heads-up display into unified digital cockpit architectures all
running on a single, extremely powerful underlying system-on-chip
(SoC). This mixed-criticality architecture tightens the integration
between previously discrete in-cabin functionality to deliver a
cockpit domain controller solution supporting a unified user
experience for the consumer while simultaneously reducing overall
cost.
VIRTIO is an open standard that defines the interface between
Android Automotive OS and the underlying hypervisor to deliver the
full Android Automotive OS experience. The combination of the
QNX Hypervisor and QNX's VIRTIO implementation allows Android
Automotive OS to run out of the box without modification. This
allows systems deployed in the field to easily upgrade to newer
versions of Android Automotive OS as they are released.
While the VIRTIO interface is standardized, the implementation
of the interface is not. The BlackBerry QNX reference has been
extended to support dynamic graphics sharing between Android
Automotive OS applications in the infotainment domain and the
digital instrument cluster, shared Vulkan drawstream support and
system-wide audio management to holistically manage all sound
within the vehicle. The BlackBerry QNX VIRTIO implementation adds
10 additional virtual devices to the existing 25 currently
available in the QNX Hypervisor family of products.
The QNX hypervisor-based reference design incorporates an
infotainment system powered by Android Automotive OS and a digital
instrument cluster virtualized by the QNX Hypervisor and running on
a single Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit Platform. This architecture
will also allow automotive manufacturers to enjoy the freedom from
interference necessary to achieve safety certifications while
delivering the full Android Automotive OS experience.
The reference design demonstrates fast-boot and sharing of
audio, graphics, video (camera), touchscreen, vehicle HAL sharing,
USB and streaming video between the digital instrument cluster and
the infotainment system powered by Android Automotive OS enabling
Tier 1s and OEMs to deliver the ultimate cockpit experience.
The QNX cockpit reference design is available now as part of the
QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks.
Register now for BlackBerry Security Summit 2021 to learn
more about the BlackBerry QNX platform and why it is the most
advanced embedded software platform for the automotive
industry.
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