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NXP launches software platform to design & develop complex vehicle architectures, allowing for ECU consolidation and flexible, scalable systems
NXP Semiconductors has introduced its S32 CoreRide platform, a first-of-its-kind vehicle software platform designed to simplify the development of complex vehicle architectures and reduce costs for automakers and tier-1 suppliers.
The S32 CoreRide platform addresses the challenges of software-defined vehicle (SDV) development, which has become increasingly complex and costly due to the proliferation of hardware-defined variants across different vehicle classes. The platform enables automakers to consolidate electronic control units (ECUs) and develop flexible architectures that scale across vehicle classes and generations. It also provides the ability to isolate vehicle functions, ensuring freedom from interference between each application and dynamically re-allocating resources so applications do not degrade in performance over time.
The platform integrates NXP’s S32 compute, networking, system power management, and ready-to-deploy software from the company’s extensive software partner ecosystem.
NXP is also introducing its first solutions in the S32 CoreRide platform: the central compute solution based on the new S32N family of vehicle super-integration processors. The S32N family, designed for the highest level of automotive functional safety, offers multiple combinations of real-time and applications processing cores to meet a wide range of automakers’ central compute needs. All S32N devices integrate an advanced hardware security engine and multi-port TSN Ethernet switch and CAN hub, with some also supporting Ethernet packet acceleration, AI/ML acceleration, and cost-effective, inter-compute PCI Express services.
The S32 CoreRide central compute solution is optimized to meet the network bandwidth, power delivery requirements and targets ISO 26262 ASIL D functional safety requirements. It can unlock the benefits of SDVs by providing vehicle data intelligence for streamlining the deployment and monetization of enhanced capabilities and new services over a vehicle’s lifetime.
NXP is currently engaged with automakers and Tier 1s with initial offerings of the S32 CoreRide platform. Production vehicles leveraging S32 CoreRide capabilities are in development today, with the first production vehicles expected to ramp up in 2027.
“The automotive industry’s shift to software-defined vehicles presents unprecedented levels of disruption,” said Henri Ardevol, executive vice president and general manager, automotive embedded systems at NXP. “In the last decade, many industries have successfully adopted faster innovation cycles and effectively achieved higher performance at lower cost through tight integration of silicon and software. With NXP’s S32 CoreRide platform, automakers can now radically transform their approach to SDV development by adopting a much faster, open development path.”