The features, functions, and overall customer experience in today’s cars are driven by software, moving the industry to the Software Defined Vehicle (SDV). Of course, everyone still enjoys a fine leather interior, but the real “secret sauce” that differentiates one car from another is how well you interact with the vehicle and how well it interacts with you. SDVs started with the development of connected and self-driving cars, but that design principle has quickly advanced and moved into the mainstream.
Environmental Parity
One key challenge with SDVs has been the disparity between the development environment and the vehicle itself in terms of hardware and software. Intel and AWS saw the opportunity to rethink their approach to addressing this challenge in order to speed time-to-market and reduce costs.
The “critical advantage” that automakers need is the ability to move development, testing, and validation to earlier in the vehicle life cycle or to “shift left.”
Addressing Both Functionality and Performance
A groundbreaking collaboration between Intel and AWS has resulted in a new Virtual Development Environment designed to enable automakers to create software-designed vehicles to achieve not only functional parity but now also performance parity, allowing automotive developers to make this critical shift left.
Achieving functional parity is less complicated in that we can start with today’s data center hardware with EC2 instances. The bigger challenge has been in achieving performance parity. Data center SoCs are designed differently from SoCs inside a vehicle.
AWS Automotive lab with Intel® Automotive SDV SoCs Now Delivers End-to-End Parity
End-to-end parity is Achieved on AWS with Intel
By enabling the Intel Automotive SDV SoCs in an AWS environment, there is now true hardware parity between the cloud and the car. This achievement of inherent performance parity between what's in the cloud with what’s inside a vehicle allows developers to further shift left their SW development and innovate faster.
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