Solution

Device Virtualization

Virtualization Solutions powered by Type-1 ASIL B certified hypervisor offer engineers the ability to collocate various environments on the same hardware.
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Vehicle architecture transformation providing best-in-class virtualization for Digital Cockpits and other Domain Controllers.​​​

Field-Proven Virtualization Layer
Automotive grade virtualization solution deployed in large volumes and relevant to all domain controller use cases.
Unbeatable Performance
Superfast boot with small footprint and highly efficient code design for minimum overhead.
Safe, Cost-Effective Solution
Capable of securely addressing safety and non-safety use cases. ASIL-B is compliant and can handle up to ASIL-D scenarios.
Out of Box Capabilities
OS Agnostic, Multi-SOC Support. Integration with HARMAN OTA and VIRTIO-ready approach.
The automotive industry has transitioned from using separate systems for various functions to more integrated systems with the HARMAN Device Virtualization Solution. This solution allows multiple operating systems to run on a single hardware platform, reducing costs and testing efforts while improving performance and security. It closely follows ARM SoCs roadmap.
Multiple Hardware and Operating Systems(OS) Support

  • ​​Supports hardware of ARM V8 32 and 64 bits Operating systems (OS) are not modified and fully native 

  • Customer not tied to any proprietary Operating System 


State-of-the-art Technology Enabling Freedom of Interferences Mechanisms

  • ​​Head unit can run both performant and real time Oss on a single board while being fully separate from each other.  

  • Memory isolation using second-stage Memory Management Unit (MMU)  

  • Device isolation using System Memory Management Unit and VM life-cycle control  

  • Temporal isolation based on priority-based, real-time guest OS scheduler 

Safety Critical (ASIL B) (ISO 26262)

  • ​The safety-critical Guest OSs continue working in native mode while collocated with non-safety critical ones so that a crash of non-safety critical Guest OSes does not impact the safety of the critical ones. ​​​

Real-time and performance warranty

  • ​Pinning virtual CPUs to dedicated physical CPUs and assigning is to a Real Time Guest 

  • OS ensures real time performance

Advanced Security Mechanisms (ISO 21434)

  • ​Secure boot and inter-VM communication channels through the use of bridge components. 

  • Multi-VM boot leverages the chain of trust established from the OEM bootloader to the system image.  

  • Controlled access to Trust Zone Execution Environment and IPsec / VPN networking polices all normal-to-secure world transition requests via SMC ​

Multi-SOC architecture support

  • ​NUMA awareness, Multi SoC capabilities for horizontal scalability ​

Software Defined Vehicles

  • ​Supporting TROUT (Android Automotive) for SDV enablement and standardization​

Multiple Hardware and Operating Systems(OS) Support

  • ​​Supports hardware of ARM V8 32 and 64 bits Operating systems (OS) are not modified and fully native 

  • Customer not tied to any proprietary Operating System 


State-of-the-art Technology Enabling Freedom of Interferences Mechanisms

  • ​​Head unit can run both performant and real time Oss on a single board while being fully separate from each other.  

  • Memory isolation using second-stage Memory Management Unit (MMU)  

  • Device isolation using System Memory Management Unit and VM life-cycle control  

  • Temporal isolation based on priority-based, real-time guest OS scheduler 

Safety Critical (ASIL B) (ISO 26262)

  • ​The safety-critical Guest OSs continue working in native mode while collocated with non-safety critical ones so that a crash of non-safety critical Guest OSes does not impact the safety of the critical ones. ​​​

Real-time and performance warranty

  • ​Pinning virtual CPUs to dedicated physical CPUs and assigning is to a Real Time Guest 

  • OS ensures real time performance

Advanced Security Mechanisms (ISO 21434)

  • ​Secure boot and inter-VM communication channels through the use of bridge components. 

  • Multi-VM boot leverages the chain of trust established from the OEM bootloader to the system image.  

  • Controlled access to Trust Zone Execution Environment and IPsec / VPN networking polices all normal-to-secure world transition requests via SMC ​

Multi-SOC architecture support

  • ​NUMA awareness, Multi SoC capabilities for horizontal scalability ​

Software Defined Vehicles

  • ​Supporting TROUT (Android Automotive) for SDV enablement and standardization​

Solution
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