TTTech Auto and BlackBerry Limited recently announced that they are expanding their current partnership to address the growing challenges around software defined vehicles (SDVs) — vehicles that manage their own operations, add functionality, and allow new features mainly or fully through software.
This extended partnership means both companies will support the native integration of the latest QNX Operating System (OS) 8.0 with TTTech Auto’s scheduling solutions in a single product. The goal is to boost performance and allow for better use of the underlying semiconductors in complicated and highly mission-critical environments, like Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in SDVs.
“The combination of rapid advancements in silicon chip performance, increasing system integration and (interdependence), and growing software complexity is creating a pressure cooker environment for SDV manufacturers,” said John Wall, SVP and Head of QNX at BlackBerry, in a statement.”
He added that the partnership will result in a linchpin product that helps support scalable architectures (from zonal to domain controllers and central compute, for example) and complex interactions needed by SDVs on the QNX foundation, which is considered safe and secure for this.
Stefan Poledna, CTO at TTTech Auto, said developing SDVs makes the “old days” of auto design look like child’s play.
“SDVs of the future require a system-wide approach that embraces the ‘4 S’s’ of system, safety, security and software integration,” he said in a statement. “In partnership with QNX, we’re helping overcome a major hurdle by offering a pre-integrated and pre-certified solution that ticks all of the boxes to support innovation and advancement in SDVs.”
