Under the Hood Automotive

ARM has been working with its silicon partners, software partners and electronics suppliers to car manufacturers to ensure this level of reliability is provided. Features like automated parity checking and error correction for soft and hard errors, dual core lock-step configuration with redundant cores and bounded low-latency response to interrupts have been added to the Cortex-R family in order to specifically address these types of automotive applications.

Comprehensive system debug during the development phase and capture of real-time data in deployed systems. ARM’s Coresight interface, supported by a wide range of specialized analysis and debugging tools, is one of the most powerful debug frameworks.

ARM also works with its partners to deliver the core design methodology and testing specifications to enable System on Chip devices based on these processors to meet the various types of industrial certification used in this space, including ISO26262 and IEC16508.

In the area of ECUs, ARM’s value proposition of low power is particularly relevant for electric vehicles and hybrids. The Cortex-M0 processor is quickly becoming the defacto standard product for managing batteries in these energy constrained systems.

• Cortex-M0
• Cortex-M0+
• Cortex-R4
• Cortex-R5
• Cortex-R7
• DS5 Tools
• PIPD ultra low leakage (ULL) libraries

Software and Debug Partners

• American Arium
• eSOL
• Express Logic
• Green Hills Software, Inc.
• Lauterbach
• Keil
• Mentor Graphics
• SEGGER
• Signum Systems
• Sophia Systems
• Yogitech

Silicon Partners

• Altera
• Fujitsu
• NXP
• Scaleo Chip
• Texas Instruments
• Xilinx