AVENIR

The Tata Elxsi AVENIR is a comprehensive cloud-native framework designed for the development, validation, and deployment of Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs). It facilitates the seamless integration of SDV technology, making vehicles smarter and more efficient. The framework supports a continuous cycle of design, development, deployment, and monitoring, ensuring vehicles are ready for future innovations.

AVENIR leverages a cloud-agnostic architecture, offering a scalable and flexible software service framework that supports both cloud-native development and edge platform deployment. This enables customers to develop, integrate, test, and launch SDVs with ease. The framework is built to work with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platforms, featuring virtual ECUs and AI-driven sensor virtualization to enhance predictive capabilities.

Key Features

• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): Focuses on discrete, interoperable services using SOME/IP and eCal, with containerization of vehicle features.
• Environment Parity: Ensures automotive software functions consistently across development and target systems, with configurable levels of parity.
• Digital Twin: Maintains a software model of the vehicle in the cloud, enabling hybrid edge-cloud applications.
• DevSecOps CI/CT/CD: Automates integration, testing, and deployment of software functions, including vulnerability and static code analysis.
• SDV Validation Framework: Provides automated validation for SOA-based applications like ADAS, EV, HMI, and V2X, with a library of test scenarios and traceability modules.
• Cloud Nativity: Implements and tests applications in the cloud using microservices in containers and an automated pipeline manager.
• Standards and Compliance: Complies with Eclipse/SOAFEE, Esync, FuSa (ISO26262-2018), and cybersecurity standards (ISO 21434, UN R155, UN R156).
• SDV Software Stack: Features a layered architecture with hypervisor, OS, containerized applications, and vehicle firmware updates.
• Over-The-Air Updates: Allows remote software updates to keep vehicles up-to-date with the latest features and security patches.

The framework also includes Tata Elxsi’s Neuron, LEXI, and IngestWise products, which provide cloud-based solutions for certification, governance, digital twin hosting, and secure device connectivity. These components ensure lineage traceability, subscription management, and data ingestion from SDVs to the cloud.

AVENIR supports various stakeholders in the automotive industry, including chip vendors, Tier-1 suppliers, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), by providing SDV software stack enablement, middleware, orchestrator frameworks, and ready-to-use development solutions. The platform is designed to be scalable and adaptable to different hardware and software environments, facilitating a left-shift in the validation cycle through virtualization capabilities.