Joint venture company SiliconAuto has adopted the PAVE360 software of Siemens Digital Industries Software. Accordingly, the Siemens tool will help SiliconAuto reduce development time for its semiconductors for automotive.

SiliconAuto will also have a software development environment prior to silicon hardware availability. Thus, accelerating its silicon development and enable potential customers to shift left development processes.

Established in 2023, SiliconAuto is a joint venture of Stellantis N.V. and Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn). Specifically, the joint venture’s job is to design and sell a family of state-of-the-art semiconductors to supply the automotive industry.

Pave Way for Future-Ready Vehicles

SiliconAuto’s goal is to provide a virtual reference development environment. Particularly, for its forthcoming Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) System on a Chip (SoC) – before silicon hardware availability. To overcome this challenge, SiliconAuto adopted PAVE360 from Siemens. Therefore, enabling the company to build an automotive standards-based multi-client, multi-fidelity, virtual development environment that mixes existing tooling and models with new virtual SoCs and real-world inputs. That is, to gain early insight, enable early software development and provide key metrics for decision criteria.

Shawn Tien, vice president of sales and marketing, SiliconAuto said their collaboration with Siemens exemplifies the company’s commitment to driving innovation. In addition, Tien said, “By leveraging PAVE360, we are not just accelerating development but also paving the way for future-ready vehicles. (They) meet the highest standards of safety and performance.”

“The pace of development for the advanced technologies required for next-generation electric vehicles is accelerating. OEMs and suppliers need to be able to prove out, simulate, and iterate software capabilities long before hardware becomes available,” said David Fritz, vice president, Hybrid and Virtual Systems, Siemens Digital Industries Software.

In addition, Fritz said, “SiliconAuto’s selection of PAVE360 for its environment of choice for pre-silicon software development shows that our standards-based approach is enabling leaders in the automotive industries. This is to accelerate their development processes and deliver the functionality that the next generation of vehicles are demanding.”

More information about PAVE360 and how Siemens is helping OEMs and suppliers to build electronics and software systems is available in this link.

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Siemens Digital Industries Software helps organizations of all sizes transform using software, hardware, and services from the Siemens Xcelerator business platform. Siemens’ software and the comprehensive digital twin enable companies to optimize their design, engineering and manufacturing processes. These tools turn today’s ideas into the sustainable products of the future. From chips to entire systems, from product to process, across all industries. 

06 September 2024