Mentor Graphics Releases GENIVI 5.0-Compliant Automotive Platform

By DE Editors

Mentor Graphics announced the availability of the latest release of its Mentor Embedded Automotive Technology Platform (ATP) for Linux-based in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system development. According to the company, automotive Tier One suppliers can speed the development of responsive user interfaces or HMIs, similar to those seen in consumer electronics devices, with the new graphics development and optimization functionality added to this GENIVI 5.0-compliant release.

In addition, by combining ATP with the recently announced Mentor Embedded Hypervisor, automotive OEMs can integrate greater functionality, such as device connectivity, on emerging infotainment hardware system-on-chip (SoC) architectures while maintaining secure separation for critical functionality.

The latest ATP release is a fully instrumented platform enabling the use of the Mentor Embedded Sourcery Analyzer to profile the entire embedded IVI system, including use cases such as fast boot and graphics performance. The new release includes graphics framework support for X11 and Wayland, GPU support and an instrumented package for QT 5.0 that includes the visual and interactive analysis of UI smoothness, start-up time, latency and QML activity.

This ATP release has achieved GENIVI 5.0 compliance for the Freescale i.MX6, Texas Instruments OMAP5 and Renesas Marzen H1, and is fully Yocto Project 1.5 compliant. The release also provides a Virtual BSP for host-based development and testing.

"The latest ATP release supports leading IVI SoCs and adds unique instrumentation and profiling from the kernel to graphics layers," said Glenn Perry, general manager of the Embedded Software Division of Mentor Graphics. "Our experience working with Tier One suppliers drove us to simplify profiling of Linux based IVI systems and the identification of bottlenecks by developing instrumentation in the kernel and graphics layers."

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.