At this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
in Las Vegas, Harman showcases a scalable platform for in-vehicle
infotainment in the connected car. The platform transplants concepts
known from commercial and consumer computing -- such as hypervisors and
virtual systems -- to automotive environments. Plus, it takes care about
cyber security and eases system integration in vehicles.
The platform demoed at the CES enables the development of apps, which
can be downloaded to the automotive infotainment system by users, much
like it is the case today in smartphone and tablet environments. Running
under Linux and supporting type 1 hypervisors (the type of hypervisor
that runs under the operating system and connects the latter to the
hardware), the platform uses multiple computing domains, isolated from
each other to ensure system security.
Though virtualization has yet to see the broad breakthrough in
automotive electronics, the degree of separation enabled through
virtualization offers automotive-grade security and stability since
program errors can have no consequences for other virtual machines
running on the same platform. Likewise, it protects safety-critical
applications from unauthorised penetration attempts. Thus, the platform
can run safety-critical applications -- and access such applications
running elsewhere in the vehicle -- without the risk of being
compromised by hackers.
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