At embedded world 2026, Telechips presented an automotive cockpit IVI demo at their booth. Together with our partners Elektrobit and QT Group we showed how infotainment applications and safety-critical functions can be operated on a common hardware platform in a modern cockpit IVI architecture.
With this demo, we addressed key issues currently facing OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, developers, and system architects working with central vehicle computers and cockpit platforms: separating software with different criticality levels (mixed criticality), functional safety, performance isolation, and the efficient use of graphics-intensive applications.
The demo was running on a Telechips Dolphin5 automotive SoC, a heterogeneous compute platform featuring Arm Cortex-A76 CPUs, Mali-G78AE GPU, and Ethos N78 NPU. A key feature was the hardware-assisted graphics virtualization that enabled high-performance rendering of graphics-intensive content despite virtualization and showed that high graphics requirements and strict security requirements do not rule each other out.
It is based on Elektrobit’s EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications. With the L4Re Hypervisor, Kernkonzept provided the virtualization and isolation layer that enables the EB Safety Linux and Android infotainment to run in parallel and strictly separated on the same Cortex®-A processor cores.
The demo provided an example of the next generation of central cockpit and computing platforms. With the consistent separation of virtual machines, it met both functional safety requirements and stable performance and isolation requirements – aspects that become increasingly important in the context of software-defined vehicle architectures. High graphics requirements and strict safety specifications are not mutually exclusive, you can have both!
This was not our first time at embedded world in Nuremberg – one of the most important international trade fairs for embedded systems. We already had our own booth in 2020, and in 2023 we teamed up with Arm to showcase an Autoware demo based on the L4Re Micro Hypervisor.
To see the demo in action, you can watch our video on YouTube!
