On November 30, 2023, the first Neusoft Reach(Chinese: 东软睿驰) openVOC Developer Eco Conference was held in Shanghai with the theme of "Simplify and Accelerate Innovation".
Many government leaders and key industry chain partners attended this developer ecological conference, looking forward to how the automotive industry under the background of intelligent change can respond to the new market challenges in a stable and orderly manner, and welcome the arrival of the era of intelligent travel robots.
Neusoft Reach Propels the Automotive Ecosystem Towards Establishing a New Stable State of Collaborative Order
The automotive industry has experienced a century of stable and orderly development until the arrival of SDV intelligent transformation, disrupting the longstanding order.
Leveraging the extensive practical experience in in-vehicle hardware and software accumulated in the field of SDV, along with a profound understanding of complex computing architecture, Neusoft Reach introduces the openVOC (Vehicle On Chip) software and hardware open technology framework. This initiative aims to foster a more uniform consensus across the entire industry regarding in-vehicle communication architecture, computation models, and application software development methodologies. This enables Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), software suppliers, and third-party application developers to collaborate under a shared understanding, facilitating the return of the entire ecosystem to a state of smooth and orderly development.
Intelligent change drives the development of intelligent automobile products to "intelligent traveling robots".
With the explosive growth of the AIGC field triggered by ChatGPT, artificial intelligence technology has set off a global trillion-dollar revolution in information technology applications. This wave is inevitably sweeping through the automotive market, pushing intelligent automotive products towards the form of intelligent traveling robots. Intelligent travel robots as a set of "travel + space + large model intelligence" in one of the super-intelligent bodies, will bring mankind an unprecedented intelligent experience.
However, as a transformative product with transgenerational significance, intelligent travel robots must challenge the existing perception of automotive product structure and reshape the understanding of automotive product hardware and software composition, particularly in terms of the novel understanding of intelligent components.
"FBB Conceptual Configuration"
Reinventing the product form of smart parts for automotive products
Drawing insights from the characteristics of intelligent robots in "car models," Neusoft Reach introduces the FBB conceptual configuration to delineate the product form of intelligent components for intelligent mobility robots.
The FBB conceptualization, or Face-Brain-Body conceptualization, represents an openVOC technology framework addressing gaps in Brain software development. It offers a software architecture that encompasses various components across the system layer, application layer, and vehicle cloud, along with associated development methods and tools.
"openVOC technology framework"
System Component for "New Generation E/E Architecture Domain Control Development": NeuSAR 4.2
The openVOC technology framework consolidates Neusoft Reach's years of experience in automotive software and hardware. It introduces five newly released components: NeuSAR, Smart Driving Component, Scenario Engine, Vehicle Cloud Component, and Hardware Product Definition.
The Neusoft Reach software development platform, NeuSAR 4.2, inherits a legacy of security and reliability while significantly enhancing application innovation and autonomous driving capabilities. It achieves a dual purpose: ensuring not only security and stability but also openness. It not only accelerates software iteration speed but also substantially reduces the cost of innovation. The platform ensures the reliability and methodology of its foundation through AUTOSAR and addresses innovation through middleware.
Application components for "Smart Driving Developer Ecosystem Collaboration and Innovation"
Neusoft Reach application components are designed to help automotive companies solve more than 80% of engineering tasks by providing customizable application architecture, support component libraries, and development-friendly tools through the pre-installed modules of the NeuSAR software development platform.
Vehicle Cloud Infrastructure for "New Eco-Application Access for Non-Traditional Automotive Industry"
The Neusoft Reach Vehicle Cloud Component offers NXMQ communication, Digital Mirror Cloud, and Autonomous Driving Cloud tool components designed for hybrid computing applications within the vehicle cloud. It establishes a component design structure that connects the cloud (cloud service gateway), pipe (NXMQ message channel), and vehicle (predefined messages from ECU on the vehicle side) directly to the cloud. Simultaneously, it provides cloud Android, a data-based simulation environment, and a data-based automated driving R&D tool platform.
Application Components for Vehicle Intelligent Scenario Application Innovation
Neusoft Reach Scene Engine component provides a complete toolchain of dynamic data, dynamic services and dynamic scenes by accessing data, services, AI and other components, realizes 500+ scripts concurrently, and supports grey scale release as well as configuration and management of services on the cloud.
Definition of hardware and software products in line with openVOC open technology framework: X-Center 2.0
Neusoft Reach defines and illustrates the product form of the Brain, which carries intelligent functions in the Face-Brain-Body configuration. Additionally, it introduces a practical case of the software-hardware integrated system compliant with the openVOC technology framework: X-Center 2.0.
X-Center 2.0 expands its coverage of diverse intelligent driving functions through a single chip, providing 40TOPS AI arithmetic, 200KDMIPS CPU arithmetic, 440 GFLOPS 3D rendering arithmetic, and supporting basic cockpit modules such as a microphone, audio, Bluetooth, 4G network, and voice-vision multimodal interaction. Coupled with the underlying hard isolation design scheme, X-Center 2.0 realizes the safe isolation and independent operation of the cockpit domain, instrument domain, and smart driving domain.
openVOC helps the automotive industry to "simplify and accelerate innovation".
Leveraging the openVOC open technology framework, Neusoft Reach aspires to establish an open, mutually beneficial, flexible, and efficient innovation ecosystem. In this ecosystem, third-party developers can seamlessly engage in the development of intelligent software. Developers of application modules A and B need not physically meet; instead, they can assemble and integrate various application components on a standardized, unified platform for modularized development. This approach facilitates the unrestricted and flexible combination of application functions.
With the official release of the openVOC open technology framework and its related components, Neusoft Reach commits to continuous upgrades and innovations. This commitment ensures that developers no longer need to compile and intermodulate together for application deployment. It aims to attract more talented developers to join the automotive industry, making the vehicle development process more efficient, differentiated innovation more open, and the application ecosystem more extensive.
During this developer eco-conference, SGS, a globally recognized testing, inspection, and certification organization, honored Neusoft Reach with the ISO 26262:2018 Automotive Functional Safety ASIL-B product certification. This achievement signifies that Neusoft ReachNeuSAR aCore, built on the AUTOSAR AP (Adaptive Platform) standard, has successfully undergone product development at the ASIL-B functional safety level, meeting the requirements of the ISO 26262:2018 standard. It has become the world's leading AUTOSAR AP-standard product to have obtained this certification.