The challenge with highly complex automotive devices is to bring up the software as soon as the silicon becomes available, which applies to the entire automotive ecosystem, including internal teams, software partners, and external customers. The hardware-dependent software includes drivers, operating systems, and accelerator firmware, which need to be ready and integrated.
Using a pre-silicon virtual prototype of its S32G device, NXP was able to bring up most of the software within two weeks after first silicon became available. This 60-minute Webinar focuses on the production use of the NXP S32G274A virtual prototype for pre-silicon development, which consists of an Arm
Cortex-A53 cluster with 4 cores, an Arm Cortex-M7 cluster with 3 lockstep cores, and automotive network accelerators with additional cores. The NXP S32G274A is an SoC for safe and secure vehicle applications.
Topics include:
- Enablement for the software development and the deployed test harness
- Ethernet real-world connectivity
- Uart-terminal for an interactive Linux prompt
- Software debugger enablement, including integrated and automated testing with Lauterbach
- Virtual Measurement Automation Framework (vMAF) libraries built on top of the virtual prototype for automated driver testing of I/O and communication