Bosch unifies infotainment and driver assistance in chip agnostic stack
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Bosch has developed a full software stack that unifies driver assistance and infotainment functions and runs on a range of system-on-chips from different suppliers.
Bosch will show the unified software stack at the CES 2024 show in January as a key step for software defined vehicles but has declined to give more technical details ahead of the launch.
The cockpit & ADAS integration platform combines automated parking and lane detection with personalized navigation and voice assistance. Together with stand-alone software such as video perception for surround sensing, vehicle manufacturers can add modules and assemble scalable designs in combination with hardware components from their own supply chain.
This avoids the need for separate modules and so uses less space and cabling, reducing costs.
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“We want to reduce the complexity of the electronics systems in cars and make them as secure as possible at the same time. With this demonstration of our new vehicle computer platform at CES, we are taking an important step in exactly this direction. Our goal in the medium term is to bring even more automated driving functions to the road, including to the compact and midsized car segments,” says Dr. Markus Heyn, member of the board of management at Robert Bosch and chairman of Bosch Mobility.
Bosch has also developed the unified software stack to run on a range of different SoCs. While Bosch will not comment on the chips that it supports, there are low power embedded SoC chips such as the S32 family from NXP Semiconductors, R-car from Renesas Electronics and the CV family from Ambarella, as well as the high performance Thor and Orin chips from Nvidia.
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“Central vehicle computers are the heart of software-defined cars. In the future, they will control all the domains in modern vehicles and reduce the currently high number of individual control units,“ said Heyn. “Our software runs on chips from different manufacturers. This allows software and hardware to be decoupled from each other.”
Overall, Bosch expects sales of €3bn just for vehicle computers for infotainment and driver assistance by 2026, and expects the overall market for automotive software to reach around €200bn by 2030, with €32bn of this in infotainment and driver assistance systems.
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