Carmakers face significant challenges in laying the foundation for continued automotive innovation, incorporating connectivity, safety and electrification. OEMs must integrate a hundred or more processors across their vehicles, mine the valuable data of dispersed electronic control units and address the exponential growth of software in vehicles. To achieve this, they need to shift to a platform approach that allows them to evolve their architectures for consistency across their brands and models while taking advantage of the re-use of expensive software development.
The orders received by NXP confirm the appeal and traction of the S32 platform for software-defined vehicles (SDV) of the future. The newly emerging OEM platform approach requires a major advancement in architectures by means of scalable processor solutions that can enable rapid integration of new functionalities and the delivery of secure over-the-air updates.
NXP’s S32 family meets the platform need by providing a consistent architecture that can span a carmaker’s entire product range, providing consistency across applications and across technologies, whether the need is for gateways, radar, EV propulsion control, or comfort features - or integration processors running entire zones or domains.
NXP S32 microcontrollers and processors for automotive applications provide an architecture that balances performance and power efficiency. They’re designed to address current and future connectivity, security and safety challenges. As part of a complete solution, NXP provides a complimentary S32 Design Studio, which includes a full automotive-grade SDK with low-level drivers and ecosystem support.
The S32 platform powers high-performance service-oriented gateways, domain controllers, zonal processors, vehicle computers and safety processors, including S32K general-purpose microcontrollers with software support for Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) B/D, a complete range of automotive radar applications for NCAP and beyond, and real-time processors for electric vehicle (xEV) control and smart actuation.
The domain and zonal processors of the NXP S32 family allow customers to logically organize the vehicle’s software architecture to enable seamless access to sensor data for holistic vehicle management. S32 is powering the software-defined future where vehicles can be updated seamlessly, extending the potential feature set of vehicles beyond their initial sale date and unlocking never-before-seen innovation for vehicle users. At the same time, carmakers can benefit with deep data mining capability, predictive vehicle behavior management and maintenance, and unparalleled scalability.
"NXP is very closely partnering with global OEMs on enabling domain and zonal implementations that they need for their future vehicle architectures," says Henri Ardevol, Executive Vice President and General Manager of NXP’s Automotive Processing business. "The NXP S32 family’s robust traction with global OEMs demonstrates how carmakers can leverage our scalable platform to accelerate software-defined vehicles to volume production."
"NXP continues to see increased direct engagement with automotive OEMs, a significant shift in the industry that is driven by SDV’s. Such direct engagements with carmakers and our deep partnerships with Tier 1s are enabling exciting opportunities for NXP’s S32 family of automotive processors, which we expect to deliver significant revenue traction in the medium to long term, beyond 2024," he adds.
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