Use Case

Safe Real-Time ADAS - Connection needs Safety & Security

Challenge 

Flexibility and scalability are the most prominent needs for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) platforms. The requirement of being pre-certified up to the highest assurance level according to ISO 26262 is self-evident. Future ADAS platforms will require robust separation of applications to run in a safe and secure manner, as well as meeting Safety & Security standards applicable for the Automotive industry. They will also need to quickly adapt to the standard that may vary depending on the geographical regions (e.g. Europe, US, China or Japan). 

• Flexibility is supposed to allow various heterogeneous functions, legacy applications and sub-systems to be seamlessly integrated and to assure the highest level of independence from the underlying hardware architecture
• Scalability is supposed to ensure that, whatever complexity, performance, Safety & Security demands the final use case may require, the software platform doesn’t have to be changed
• Legacy certification should be reusable while developing a new system
• Integration of functions also become more complex. The challenge is to ensure a smooth integration of multiple functions developed by completely different teams using a large variety of technologies

Solution 

To meet the requirements of a robust separation of applications to run safe and secure, PikeOS is the solution. 

• The PikeOS RTOS/Hypervisor runs on all industry standard hardware architectures and platforms, supports several APIs (e.g. native, POSIX, legacy APIs) and guest OSes (e.g. Linux, Android) while being ISO 26262 pre-certified
• PikeOS scales from being a pure embedded RTOS running a single application to a hypervisor concurrently hosting multiple OSes and multiple instances thereof as well as real-time applications
• The PikeOS certification kit structure enables re-use of certification artefacts across different domains both for Safety & Security enabling fast adaptations to new global or regional certification standards
• PikeOS guarantees the independence of each of the concurrent running OSes and applications, allowing these OSes and applications to have various criticalities

PikeOS Software Architecture