Green Hills Platforms for Automotive:

In-vehicle infotainment systems today integrate an ever-growing array of entertainment and informational features. As a result, software size and complexity is exploding. Despite so much software content, IVI systems must still meet the required automotive robustness within traditional automotive cost, safety, security, size, weight, and power budgets.

The Green Hills In-Vehicle Infotainment Platform is based on Green Hills Multivisor virtualization solution, a service of the safety- and security-certified INTEGRITY real-time operating system. Companies that select the Green Hills In-Vehicle Infotainment Platform as the foundation for their next-generation IVI system gain significant advantages over their competition through benefits that include reduced development time and cost, widest breadth of scalability, higher system reliability, and advanced system security.

In-vehicle infotainment architecture must be safe, secure and reliable. The Green Hills Platform for In-Vehicle Infotainment is built on INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS) technology, certified at the world’s highest safety and security levels enabling IVI developers to develop and deploy with confidence.

The INTEGRITY RTOS’ memory protection, microkernel architecture, and virtual device driver paradigm ensure that the core kernel is impervious to the software bugs that inevitably surface in a sophisticated infotainment system. Beyond memory protection, however, INTEGRITY guarantees the necessary memory and CPU resources that each application needs to operate. A problem in a less critical subsystem cannot affect the operation of the more critical subsystem. The same partitioning and resource guarantee capabilities protect the infotainment applications from Internet-borne worms or viruses. Even if a virus were to get into the system, existing applications cannot be starved of memory or CPU time. Similarly, a bug or design flaw in a less critical component cannot affect another protected component.

Car owners expect their infotainment system to be ready for use immediately after they press the “on” button. INTEGRITY boots “instant-on,” enabling time-critical functions such as a rear-view camera or door chimes to be up and working immediately.

Unlike other memory-protected operating systems, INTEGRITY never sacrifices real-time performance for security or safety. INTEGRITY boots and executes the most critical system tasks in milliseconds, while delivering guaranteed deterministic response, and hard real-time performance in a separation kernel architecture to support safe, secure execution of mixed-criticality applications.

IVI systems must be highly scalable and must meet a broad range of market requirements, so IVI developers need a flexible software architecture that scales easily.

INTEGRITY Multivisor is secure virtualization based on INTEGRITY RTOS technology, and provides guaranteed partitioning for safe hosting of guest operating systems, real-time applications and peripheral driver software all running on complex multicore processors with or without hardware-assisted virtualization support. Systems developed today can be upgraded or otherwise enhanced for years to come.

For example, a simple and inexpensive IVI system for an economy vehicle, for example, might include a small monochrome display, an aux port, and hands-free Bluetooth. Standalone INTEGRITY RTOS meets these requirements. A midrange system could demand a larger display with embedded navigation, Internet radio, location-based services and voice commands. It would also display basic vehicle dynamics available on the CAN bus. Here, INTEGRITY Multivisor enables a guest operating system such as Linux or Android plus a separate and secure partition running a CAN bus application through an OSEK or AUTOSAR interface.

Safe and secure execution

The INTEGRITY RTOS and its Multivisor secure virtualization provide the certified separation and guaranteed hardware resources to applications and their AUTOSAR components, including safety and security tasks, drivers, middleware, guest operating systems and AUTOSAR operating systems. The resulting freedom-from-interference is a vital feature to safely and securely run these complex mixed-ASIL software components with determinism, across multicore heterogenous SoCs.

For AUTOSAR Classic, the INTEGRITY RTOS executes one or more AUTOSAR Classic environments in virtual address spaces/containers across one or more cores on a high-performance multicore application processor. No virtualization is required. This means customers have the flexibility to incorporate and run their own AUTOSAR Classic asset, an OEM’s AUTOSAR Classic asset or a third-party asset without compromising the platform’s performance, safety architecture or security.

For AUTOSAR Adaptive, Green Hills again leverages the INTEGRITY RTOS’ certified separation architecture and policies to natively run AUTOSAR Adaptive, as compared to other vendors that must rely on less secure virtualization for system separation. As a result, customers eliminate the significant complexities, performance overhead, security impacts, and development and debug challenges that come with using a hypervisor platform approach to AUTOSAR Adaptive in vehicle electronics designs.

Scalable Family of Real-Time Operating Systems and Secure Virtualization

• Safe — The safety certified INTEGRITY RTOS technology is certified to the highest safety levels for ISO 26262 (ASIL D) and IEC 61508 (SIL 4)
• Secure —INTEGRITY RTOS technology is certified to the highest security level ever achieved for any software product—Common Criteria SKPP, EAL 6+ High Robustness—and is incorporating the latest automotive cybersecurity standards as defined by ISO/SAE DIS 21434 CAL 4 and UNECEVR EZP.29 CSMS
• Flexible — INTEGRITY Multivisor securely and safely runs guest operating sWems alongside critical applications
• Deeply embedded —µ-velOSity microkernel offers a tiny footprint and simple programming model for microcontroller architectures.
  The µ-visor virtualization solution for microcontrollers features robust hardware-enforced software separation, multi-OS support, and real-time efficientcy to safely and securely consolidate critical workloads on resource-constrained processors
• Open — Automotive application programming interfaces to OSEK, AUTOSAR and POSIX

Middleware components

• Automotive connectivity including CAN, Ethernet AVB/TSN, DoIP, SOME/IP, RTP/RTCP, gPTP Slave/Bridging, Wireless, USB, Bluetooth, and IPv4/v6 TCP/IP stack
• Graphics and UI Kits for 2D, 3D, OpenGL, Qt Commercial, Rightware Kanzi, Altia Design, DiSTI GL Studio, Crank Storyboard, CGI Studio, HTML5
• Internet application offerings including web servers, HTML5, email and HTTP clients
• File systems featuring partition journaling, wear leveling flash storage and more
• Embedded firewall
• Secure communications protocols—SSL, SSH, IPSec, IKEv2, HTTPS, FIPS 140-2, Suite B crypto

Software Development tools

• MULTI IDE and Green Hills toolchain are qualified to the highest functional safety levels, including ISO 26262 (ASIL D) and IEC 61508 (SIL 4) and EN 50128 (SIL 4)
• Green Hills Optimizing Compilers for C, C++, and Embedded C++ generate the fastest and smallest production-quality code on a broad range of automotive processor architectures
• MULTI IDE includes multicore debugger, profiler, simulator, run-time error checking, project builder, editor and much more
• TimeMachine revolutionary debugging suite. Run and step an application back in time to find even the most difficult bugs in minutes
• MISRA C Adherence Wizard for building in code quality at the time of compilation
• DoubleCheck integrated static source code analyzer
• Integration with MathWorks' Embedded Coder and Simulink for modeling, simulation and PIL testing

Hardware Development tools

• Green Hills Probe V4 for multicore hardware bring-up, low-level debugging and trace-powered analysis tools

Security

• Embedded Cryptographic Toolkit provides FIPS 140-2 compliant services for securing embedded devices through secure boot, secure data storage, secure networks (SSL, TSL, IPSec, SSH) and digitally signed secure OTA firmware updates

Device Lifecycle Management (DLM)

• Integrated products and services that enable embedded product manufacturers to monetize, manage and protect hardware and software intellectual property.

Services

• System/software consulting
• Training
• Safety and security certification support
• BSP development & certification