Altran and Jaguar Collaborate on Software Architecture
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NEWS Altran and Jaguar collaborate on software architecture Engineering consultancy next generation of intelli - of the technical and com - novation, and is enabling Altran and Jaguar Land gent vehicles and ma - mercial perspective both its partners to do the Rover are collaborating to chines. companies have on this same. The company is The monthly magazine for automotive electronics engineers develop and market an “Jaguar Land Rover key technical domain,” moving towards a whole open software platform and Altran have been col - said Cyril Roger, senior new model of co-innova - Issue 25 for traditional electrical laborating for the past executive vice-president tion to bring more value, Ford set to help Google January 2016 and electronic automotive five years on a number of for Altran. “It reinforces assets and expertise IN THIS architectures that will projects and this partner - Altran’s new strategic di - across industries to its with autonomous driving combine industrial and ship is the formalisation rection in accelerating in - customers.” ISSUE engineering techniques with the processes, meth - Adam’s Apple or Google maps Ford and Google are Page 2: Altran and ods and tools found in the teaming up to develop au - Jaguar collaborate consumer electronics in - tonomous vehicles. Both dustry. companies have been Page 5: Harman uses The combination of pushing ahead with au - Dirac audio and Jaguar Land Rover’s ex - tonomous vehicle tests tuning technology perience and knowledge with Google announcing of the premium automo - last January that it hoped Page 8: Navman and tive sector and Altran’s to have driverless cars on Here analytics expertise across industry the market within five sectors in software archi - years. Page 9: Interview: tectures will enable the And Ford last month NXP EVP on introduction of this announced that it had se - Google autonomous test vehicle Freescale takeover technology to a host of cured a California au - different vehicles and ma - tonomous driving permit Tester Programme to test makers. However, the Page 15: Peugeot chines. The product has to begin testing fully au - autonomous vehicles on new plan is for Ford and Citroën simulation potential for application tonomous vehicles on public roads. The testing Google to form a joint for powertrains in the medical, rail, indus - public roads this year. is an advancement of venture, though Google trial automation and aero - More details are ex - Ford’s ten-year au - already has more than 50 Vauxhall’s Adam city car is equipped with the latest-generation R4.0 In - Page 20: Bosch’s space sectors. pected to be announced at tonomous vehicle devel - test vehicles on public telliLink system infotainment technology including smartphone integra - connected car work This could lead to the this month’s Consumer opment programme and a roads in California and creation of an ecosystem tion and the choice of Apple Maps and Google Maps. The car maker’s Electronics Show in Las key element of Ford Texas. OnStar is also available on Adam Slam, S and Rocks models, enabling Page 23: Driver of application developers Vegas. Smart Mobility, the plan But the advantage for personal connectivity and a service assistant while also becoming a Wifi assistance on Infiniti across the automotive Google’s work on self- to take the company to Google is that if and hotspot for up to seven mobile devices. Q50 sports saloon and technology industry, driving cars started with the next level in connec - when the car goes into paving the way for the “The Vauxhall Adam in all its variants is the perfect example of how adding components to ex - tivity, mobility, au - mass production it would much individuality and technology can be packed into a small car,” said Page 28: Dashcam isting cars but since de - tonomous vehicles, the have access to Ford’s Stuart Harris, Vauxhall’s head of car line brand. “And with the new helps athlete Next issue cided to build a prototype customer experience, and manufacturing facilities smartphone-compatible IntelliLink system and Vauxhall OnStar, we boost from the ground up. data and analytics. rather than having to our successful lifestyle city car onto a higher level.” Page 29: Product Due to annual holidays, Ford is officially en - Google said earlier this build its own from scratch Features include clear 17.9cm colour touchscreen, connectivity options news the February issue of rolled in the California year that it was interested or license production to Vehicle Electronics will via USB and Bluetooth for audio streaming and viewing photographs, Autonomous Vehicle in working with other car another car company. videos and films, and making a telephone call via the hands-free module. Page 34: Contact be coming out later in the details month than usual. vehicle-electronics.biz Vehicle Electronics January 2016, Page 2 NEWS NEWS Gentex LCD mirror on Cadillacs at CES Twenty million autonomous cars by 2025 Gentex is demonstrating Gentex is also display - There will be almost 20 and automated braking five most promising play - concerns over the deci - several automotive vi - ing at CES its custom-de - million fully autonomous will become key. It ar - ers in the driverless car sion making capabilities sion-enhancing technolo - signed camera systems or self-driving vehicles gued these systems would sector as Google, Volvo, of these systems have gies, including its all-new engineered specifically on the road by 2025, with serve to prepare drivers Daimler, Tesla and Apple. been raised and questions FDM full display mirror for automotive forward consumer adoption set to for the psychological They were scored on key have been asked about the on the 2016 Cadillac CT6 facing machine vision ap - take off in 2021, accord - change from the role of factors such as live trials, decisions autonomous ve - luxury sedan and the plications and rear vision ing to Juniper Research. driving a car to operating kilometres tested on road, hicles would take when 2017 Cadillac XT5 automotive video camera. Driven by increased a driverless car. technology development, presented with the trolley crossover, at this month’s It consists of a proprietary safety and convenience Although the market project scale and scope, problem, where the au - Consumer Electronics cmos imager that delivers for drivers, development has progressed to live tri - future potential, and mar - tonomous car will be Show in Las Vegas. Cadillac CT6 will feature Gentex FDM at CES a claimed unprecedented has progressed to live tri - als, a monetisation strat - ket opportunities. forced to choose between “The two Cadillac vehi - dynamic range with als with North America egy has not become Google was ranked as two disastrous outcomes. cles in our CES booth XT5, and our HomeLink new full display mirror, pixel-level intelligence. and western Europe set to evident. Stakeholders are the most promising The study argued that will be equipped with car-to-home automation which is an on-demand, Each individual camera become the first to wit - investigating multiple player, having been in de - the siloed nature of tech - several of Gentex’s pro - system located on both mirror-borne LCD that pixel can determine its ness driverless cars in use business models with velopment the longest nology development re - prietary technologies, in - vehicles,” said Gentex VP streams live, panoramic own exposure and self- on the road. manufacturers expected and having logged the quired stakeholders to cluding glare-eliminating of engineering Neil video of the vehicle’s adjust so that the brightest The research found in to engage in product li - highest amount of au - collaborate and ensure a automatic-dimming exte - Boehm. “They are the rearward view in order to and darkest areas of any the interim consumer use censing, self-production tonomous kilometres on minimum level of safety rior mirrors with side first production vehicles dramatically improve given scene are clear and of adas technologies such or open sourcing. public roads. for those using au - blind zone alerts on the to publicly display our driver rear vision.“ visible. as adaptive cruise control Juniper ranked the top The research noted that tonomous driving. Ceva and Yogitech present IDT buys ZMDI 26262 design package at CES Integrated Device Tech - “In addition to increasing Ceva has completed an DSPs are being demon - nology (IDT) has com - our technology portfolio, ISO 26262 compliant strated this month at the pleted the acquisition of we gain a very comple - safety design package Consumer Electronics privately held ZMDI mentary customer base that helps its customers Show in Las Vegas (Zentrum Mikroelek - that significantly extends accelerate the certifica - “The XM4 imaging and tronik Dresden) for our future ability to pro - tion of adas using its vision DSP not only pres - $307m. Announced in the vide integrated system- XM4 imaging and vision ents the automotive sector autumn, the acquisition level semiconductor DSP. Functional safety with the most power-effi - brings to IDT a highly re - solutions.” company Yogitech deliv - cient and cost-effective garded automotive and ZMDI’s strength in the ered the failure modes ef - way to implement adas industrial business, as automotive and industrial fects and diagnostic vision processing, but well as programmable segments provides IDT analysis (FMEDA) report also addresses the critical power devices and signal design-in leverage for and advice on achieving functional safety require - conditioning products. wireless charging, power Asil B compliancy.