Virtual platform solutions like PAVE360 from Siemens, Arm is enabling to begin software development on Zena CSS.
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that it is expanding its longstanding relationship with Arm and adding support for the newly launched Arm Zena Compute Subsystems (CSS) in its PAVE360 software, designed for software-defined vehicles (SDV).
Zena CSS, Arm’s first-generation CSS for automotive, is a pre-integrated and validated compute subsystem optimized for performance, power and area and designed to accelerate development for the AI-defined vehicle.
As the automotive industry enters a new phase of SDVs where intelligent, AI-defined functionality provides an opportunity for greater vehicle differentiation, a new development methodology and mindset is required.
Customers can now use Siemens’ PAVE360 to develop software for Zena CSS before silicon availability, and within the SOAFEE community, the virtual prototyping environment will become a key technology to enable SOAFEE Blueprints. . They can then functionally validate software in-system and accurately model SoC algorithms and hardware/ software interaction, helping to mitigate the inevitable challenges posed by software-defined and systems-aware vehicle development.
PAVE360, as part of Siemens’ SDV framework, brings together the Innexis software environment, Veloce hardware-assisted verification and validation system, Teamcenter software for Product Lifecycle, Polarion for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), and Simcenter Prescan and Simcenter Amesim software for simulation to provide a more integrated approach to software-defined development.
The initial support for Zena CSS, based on Innexis Architecture Native Acceleration (ANA), is now available from Siemens as part of PAVE360. Automotive customers can start developing software today and, once silicon is available, continue through the PAVE360 digital twin flow seamlessly transitioning to accurate performance and power analysis using Innexis Developer Pro. In parallel, PAVE360 enables requirements and verification to be linked together providing a digital twin that is systems-aware, mitigating the inevitable system integration storm experienced by vehicle developers.
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