On 6 November 2025, the MANNHEIM-CeCas stakeholders and the consortium met for the final technical project review, hosted by Infineon near Munich. We unveiled the result of our work: a standardized, modular, and scalable supercomputing platform for Level 3 to 5 autonomous driving, which we have been developing along with 28 project partners from various industrial branches and scientific institutes since the start of the project in 2022.
The CeCas (meaning: CentralCarServer) platform integrates high-performance real-time computing, AI-ready software, and a zonal vehicle architecture. Thus, it simplifies design and development, supports over-the-air software updates, and allows for accelerated development and easier adaptation across vehicle sizes and performance classes – strengthening Germany’s position in the global automotive industry landscape.
The open source L4Re Hypervisor and L4Re Micro Hypervisor, with their capability to run safely on zonal real-time nodes as well as central-compute high performance nodes, were key to reducing the complexity of today’s automotive software landscape. In the CeCas project, L4Re improved the resource-scheduling capabilities in safety conscious environments and developed tools to make integration of workloads into the hypervisor and operating system for system integrators even easier.
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Thanks to all project partners and especially our host Infineon for this powerful collaboration!
The project was co-funded by Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR).
