In line with the EU Strategic Research and Innovation priorities on Electronic Components and Systems, key European industrial companies, research organizations, and academic organizations from eleven countries started a three-year project to pioneer innovative methods, technologies, and processes for series vehicle development beyond 2030.
Embedded system development for the automotive industry is one of the core business areas for Unikie. For the HAL4SDV project, Unikie brings a deep understanding of embedded systems and the unique challenges they present. The project is all about providing building blocks for future SDVs by working with different technologies, tools and methodologies together with project partners.
The HAL4SDV project mission is to advance European solutions in software-defined vehicles (SDV) and next-generation vehicles. It aims to harmonize efforts across Europe, creating a comprehensive SDV ecosystem while leveraging existing national projects and international R&D activities. By focusing on unifying software interfaces and development methodologies, HAL4SDV will enable software configuration that abstracts from vehicle hardware, paving the way for a “software-defined vehicle” approach for both safety-critical and non-safety-critical applications in future vehicles.
Beyond technological innovation, HAL4SDV underpins Europe’s automotive industry, sustains its competitive edge, and accelerates green and digital transitions, both fostering collaboration and promoting sustainability across the automotive ecosystem.
The main HAL4SDV objectives include:
- SDV platform Service oriented Architecture (SoA) based architecture, serving non-safety & safety-related applications
- HAL architecture definition in context of a comprehensive “System + Software” approach
- Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) developments – standardized interfaces to sensors, actors, compute resources and persistent storage, abstraction using hypervisors, HAL SW updates
- Hardware abstraction layer key software element updates
- HAL for secure enclaves to build up Zero Trust concepts
- Cloud-based rapid prototyping for software-defined vehicles
- Security Support for automotive safety-relevant applications, etc.
The HAL4SDV consortium, led by TTTech Computertechnik AG including TTTech Auto AG, combines leading OEMs for shaping the vision and strategic requirements, Tier1 companies keenly interested in exploiting the project’s results, integrated design manufacturers driving SDV integration in computing platforms, software and technology providers offering critical expertise, SMEs contributing specialized knowledge, and academic partners and research institutes bridging fundamental and applied research.
Read the press release (University of Oulu)
For more information please visit www.hal4sdv.eu.
