Software is driving transformative innovation in vehicle design while introducing new development challenges. Whether you're starting out or scaling up your development for software-defined vehicles, NXP CoreRide platform simplifies complexity and provides building blocks for a new generation of vehicles.
Software-Defined Vehicle Infrastructure
Software-Defined Vehicle Development: NXP CoreRide Platform
Introducing a Simpler Way to Develop SDVs
Our focus is simple: Deliver solutions for long-lasting functions that are core to the vehicle—what makes the car a car. The NXP CoreRide platform cuts out some of the tedious efforts that slow development: integration and scalability. We've taken industry-leading middleware, operating systems and other software and forged it with our scalable processing, networking and system power. Making the big leap in SDV development is possible with NXP CoreRide platform.
One Single Platform That Scales
Scalable from the ground up, from processing performance and network speed to system power management and re-usable software. Scale across vehicle classes, from compact cars to SUVs and from domain to fully centralized architectures — all on a single platform.
S32 Process Compute
Safe and scalable with reuse featuring OTA updates and security built-in
Networking
High data rates and design flexibility
System Power Management
Safe and scalable multi-PMIC solutions
SDV Minutes | S32N Family: The Heart of NXP's CoreRide Platform
SDVs are driving consolidation of vehicle functions into zones and central compute. NXP's S32N family of vehicle super-integration processors.
Break Through Integration Barriers with NXP CoreRide
With the NXP CoreRide platform, you can skip the arduous integration efforts associated with software-defined vehicles and electrification. Industry-leading software seamlessly combined with the underlying hardware is just what automakers need to advance to their point of differentiation.
Minimize Software Efforts
Pre-integration of software and hardware eliminates the need to develop basic software from scratch
Maximize System Performance
Optimizes efficiency and seamless interaction between software and hardware components
Accelerate Market Entry
Production-ready platform accelerates deployment of new features
NXP CoreRide Solutions for E/E Architectures
NXP CoreRide platform enables a lasting, stable core that underpins every aspect of the vehicle operations including propulsion, body, networking, safety, security and energy management. And it offers the flexibility to work in any architecture, from domain to centralized.
Central Compute
ASIL D safety, hardware security, high-performance real-time and application processing and network acceleration.
Zonal Controllers
Hub for power distribution and data connection to actuators and sensors within a physical area.
In-Vehicle Networking
High-performance, adaptable networks based on Ethernet, CAN, LIN and FlexRay, enabling safe, secure, and real-time communication.
Connectivity Domain Controller
Secure car access, V2X, Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth® LE, UWB and cellular connectivity between the vehicle and the outside world.
Service-Oriented Gateway
High-performance and real-time processing, networking and bandwidth for handling in-vehicle services.
Firmware Over-The-Air (FOTA)
Update securely and seamlessly the vehicle ECU firmware in the background.
Other applications: Automotive Access Point, Gateway, Automotive Data Logger
The Future of SDVs: Revolutionizing the Product Development Lifecycle
New cloud-based virtualization allows for development to take place before silicon is available and after the car is on the road.
NXP CoreRide Platform: An Integration Breakthrough for Software-Defined Vehicle Development
NXP is overcoming software and hardware integration challenges for next-generation vehicles by combining processing, vehicle networking and system power management with integrated software.
Virtual Modeling, Digital Twin and Beyond
Virtual modeling means faster results. You can model, test and optimize your NXP automotive design virtually across teams. Do this before silicon* is available to bring new vehicles and features to market faster.
In the same development environment, a digital twin of the vehicle can help manage health and updates throughout the lifetime of the fleet.
Software-Defined Vehicle FAQs
What exactly are the challenges for SDV development?
The challenges of SDV development are the integration of hardware and software for vehicle architecture development, the consolidation of ECUs from complex hardware-based vehicle architectures and a scalable platform that can be applied to low to high-end vehicle classes reducing OEM development efforts.
Why is NXP CoreRide Platform important to the industry?
NXP CoreRide Platform is important to the industry because it is the only automotive semiconductor vendor offering a pre-integrated software stack up to the middleware layer that is optimized across NXP's broad hardware.
What is middleware?
Middleware is the layer between the operating system and the application layer that provides services like communications, data management, vehicle management, relying on operating systems, implementing infrastructure services and automotive business logic.
What operating systems will be supported by NXP CoreRide Platform?
AUTOSAR® OS from Elektrobit and Vector and POSIX OSes like Integrity from Green Hills Software, VxWorks® from Wind River, and QNX from BlackBerry. Additionally Linux is also supported.
What NXP ecosystem partners will support NXP CoreRide Platform?
There will be multiple ecosystem partners supporting the platform at multiple levels to enable SDV software development. NXP is working across NXP's Partner Program to make them part of the NXP CoreRide Platform.
Software-Defined Vehicle Academy
NXP is supporting domain control and zonal control in software-defined vehicle (SDV) architecture trends, as well as electrification and vehicle autonomy.
Additional Documents
WardsAuto Industry Insight: A Deep Dive Into Software-Defined Vehicles
Read more about the industry's vision of transitioning to SDVs and the challenges and expectations that come along with the shift.
Sign in to download white paperVDC Research: Software-Defined Differentiation Through Automotive Technology
Read more about enabling intelligent connected vehicles with a connected data lifecycle.
Sign in to download white paperPre-Integrated Argus IDPS on NXP's S32G
Learn the basic principles of vehicle intrusion, detection and prevention systems and gain guidance on how to maximize Argus IDPS performance on the NXP S32G processor.
Read the white paperAutomotive Zonal Architectures White Paper
Learn more about how we identify the challenges and solutions for the emerging era of automotive zonal architectures.
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