Ever wondered what goes into getting safety certification for electronic devices used in automobiles? In modern vehicles, even a minor design lapse can lead to catastrophic consequences. This is where functional safety becomes critical.

In a recent fireside chat, I sat down with Robert Day, SOAFEE’s Marketing Steering Committee Chair, and John Penn, SOAFEE’s Technical Steering Committee Chair, to talk about their Blueprints program and Software Defined Vehicles (SDV). 

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In a recent announcement, Arm has released its new Lumex advanced compute subsystem (CSS) platform, which the company says is designed for AI experiences on flagship smartphones and next-gen PC.

Arm announced the Zena CSS, the company's first pre-integrated and pre-validated platform for AI-defined vehicles built on Armv9 Automotive Enhanced (AE) technology.

Recently Arm introduced its Armv9 edge AI platform featuring the new Arm Cortex-A320 CPU and the Arm Ethos-U85 NPU, a leading AI accelerator delivering efficient and secured intelligence at the edge. The solution provides an 8x improvement in machine learning (ML) performance compared to the Cortex-M85-based platform launched last year.

If the software-defined vehicle (SDV) comes off as planned, life for consumers becomes a whole lot easier. “If” is the key word in that sentence, and there’s tons of debate as to when that might actually happen.