Leveraging MontaVista's 10+ years of Embedded Linux experience, the MontaVista Automotive Technology Platform (ATP) contains hardened frameworks for graphics, video, sound, USB, Bluetooth, Location Based Services, security, customizable UI and much more. The MontaVista ATP is highly tuned in the areas of performance, ultra-fast boot and power management on select automotive-specific platforms based on ARM and Intel® Atom™ processors.

Technology

With the explosion of smartphones, tablets and app stores, the consumer demand in the automotive market for improved entertainment and application options has caused the need for in-vehicle infotainment software to match or exceed that of the mobile device market. There is a need for high performance graphics and multimedia capability, internet connectivity via WiFi or 3G/4G, Bluetooth support, USB connectivity, media and music management, contacts management, email and internet browser and GPS location aware services. MontaVista has been building and delivering these elements on Linux for over a decade. We are leveraging that experience to build the MontaVista Automotive Technology Platform (MV ATP), a comprehensive Linux-based, GENIVI-compliant software platform for the automotive IVI market. MontaVista's ATP approach is to provide an agile technology reference platform that continually evolves with new features suitable for concept demos and as an advanced starting point for customized solutions.

Services

Today's IVI solutions require an extensive amount of customized software components with incredibly high quality and security requirements. Not only does a company have to prove it has the experience and sustainability to deliver and support a customer under these stringent requirements, it must have the capability to provide Professional Services to work alongside Tier-1 suppliers and OEMs to build the final solution. The ability to deliver large scale customized solutions with global project management is a critical foundation of MontaVista's IVI offering. MontaVista has a large, resourceful group of engineers and project managers that are knowledgeable across multiple disciplines required to deliver customized design services during the design and development phase. MontaVista's field proven Production Grade QA infrastructure and processes ensure that your solution will be delivered to meet the stringent quality demands of the automotive market. Once built and deployed, MontaVista provides custom long-term support to your needs, ensuring your products are backed by world-class support for a decade or more.

MV Automotive Technology Platform (ATP)

MontaVista is committed to the ongoing delivery of industry compliant, hardened, high-performance Linux-based software solutions to the automotive industry based upon the GENIVI Compliance specifications. Leveraging MontaVista’s 10+ years of Embedded Linux experience, the MontaVista Automotive Technology Platform contains hardened frameworks for graphics, video, sound, USB, Bluetooth, Location Based Services, security, customizable UI and much more. The MontaVista ATP is highly tuned in the areas of performance, ultra-fast boot and power management on select automotive-specific platforms based on ARM and Intel®AtomTM processors.

Some of the key components of MontaVista Automotive Technology Platform are:

• Linux-based, GENIVI-compliant platform with fast boot/start up, high performance, power management and security options built in
• Comprehensive networking and internet support
• Multimedia capabilities for audio and video requirements
• Integration for consumer devices via Bluetooth or APIs
• Vendor specific UI customization
• Fully integrated tool set for application development

MontaVista uses an agile development model for ATP where new technology frameworks are rapidly and frequently added. This allows for rapid proof-of-concept demos and technology validation that can later be customized to a specific automotive project.

MV ATP is built around a core of GENIVI-compliant components that manage the key infrastructure framework with MontaVista’s add-ons:

• Fast boot capabilities that boot up the system in less than one second
• Lightweight virtualization via containers that isolate functions and untrusted applications
• Security framework
• Secure HTML5
• Secure Android

Secure Application Frameworks

MV ATP adds secure HTML5 from our ModiiTM Digital Media Solution and Android support to the GENIVI-compliant platform. This provides design flexibility to automotive manufacturers or OEM’s and Tier-1 supplies to build powerful IVI systems. Complementing the HTML5 and Android capabilities MontaVista has implemented a unique dual-layered secure environment consisting of both Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) and MontaVista Linux Containers. This dual-layered secure environment provides unprecedented isolation in which to safely execute 3rd party applications and multimedia content with greatly reduced risk of affecting other automotive functions. The Android, HTML5 and security features are all highly tuned for performance and make extensive use of hardware acceleration.

OEMs can now create a solution that preserves their branding and provide a unique automotive experience to their customers, while isolating the core systems from the untrusted applications demanded by customers today.

MontaVista Value Added Features

In addition to all the GENIVI Compliance Components MontaVista is adding core components to support performance, security and development and support. These components are tried and tested in other solutions implemented by MontaVista and deliver significant improvements over standard Linux solutions. These include:

MV ATP Example Use-Case

• Android framework (fully hardware accelerated)
• HTML5 framework (fully hardware accelerated)
• High performance lightweight virtualization (containers)
• Security framework (SELinux)
• Diagnostics (Flight Recorder)
• Fast boot

SDK and Tools

Included within the MV ATP framework is complete Software Development Kit supporting Platform Integration, a Cross-Development Toolchain and MontaVista’s DevRocket Eclipse IDE.

MontaVista’s development tools and environment with it’s Eclpse-based IDE provides an intuitive, integrated development environment that is a familiar, standards based GUI that is well known within the market short­ening the learning curve. This single development environment gives you complete control and customiz­ability without switching between applications and gives you a complete cross-tool chain including compilers, debuggers and all run-time libraries. DevRocket also includes advanced tools for debugging, tracing and profiling.

MontaVista and GENIVI

The GENIVI Alliance is a non-for-profit industry alliance committed to driving the broad adoption of an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) reference platform. GENIVI looks to accomplish this by aligning requirements, delivering reference implementations, offering certification programs and fostering a vibrant open source IVI community. This work will result in shortened development cycles, quicker time-to-market, and reduced costs for companies developing IVI equipment and software.

MontaVista is an active GENIVI member and is a member of the board of directors. MontaVista is also leading the GENIVI Compliance Program.

GENIVI Compliance

MontaVista Automotive Technology Platform is GENIVI 1.0 Compliant on the following platforms:

• Freescale i.MX53 SABRE for Automotive, ARM Cortex-A8
• Renesas R-Car M1, ARM Cortex-A9

MV ATP GENIVI-Compliant Architecture

Customer Examples

Robert Bosch Car Multimedia

MontaVista and Robert Bosch Car Multimedia entered into a multi-year, significant agreement for MontaVista to develop and deliver Linux-based software solutions for BOSCH. The first project will be for a cross carline, in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) solution and is the first of multiple Linux-based software solutions for BOSCH.

To find out more about MontaVista's Automotive Technology Platform contact us today.