Siemens Digital Industrial Software has partnered with Arm and AWS to deliver the PAVE360 digital twin solution in the AWS cloud service, leveraging cloud-based vehicle simulation to help accelerate innovation in the next generation of software-defined vehicles (SDVS)
Developers can now use the Arm technology included in PAVE360 on AWS to rapidly develop automotive systems
Siemens Digital Industrial software has further extended its partnership with Amazon Cloud Technologies (AWS) by launching the automotive digital twin solution based on Siemens PAVE360 in the AWS cloud service, bringing the “Software defined vehicle” (software defined vehicle) through the parallel development of software and hardware. SDV’s design process is “shifted left” to help developers compress design cycles, speed product to market, and accelerate the pace of innovation in the automotive industry. In addition, Siemens is deepening its partnership with Arm to help developers use Arm® technology running in the Siemens PAVE360 digital twin solution through AWS cloud services.
Instead of deploying software on premises, automakers can now use PAVE360 solutions, available in AWS cloud services, to develop software early in their IP selection and design process, and evaluate ARM-based critical systems and software components. Solutions executed in the cloud can provide developers with simulation speeds unmatched by traditional on-premises modeling and simulation infrastructure, enabling them to take full advantage of the “left shift” of processes to meet increasingly tight time-to-market requirements while addressing the technical and business challenges of the future.
Mike Ellow, Executive Vice President of Global Sales, Service and Customer Support at Siemens Digital Industrial Software EDA, said: “The automotive industry is currently facing multiple disruptive changes, ‘software-defined vehicles’ (SDV) is one of the very potential growth direction, and the competitive SDV market is also facing a lot of pressure, automakers must quickly respond to consumer expectations for new features, while minimizing the software development cycle.” This trend and demand has greatly promoted the application of the ‘move left’ approach, allowing parallel hardware and software to collaborate and continue the transition towards full digital twins. “Working together with Arm and AWS, Siemens can achieve organizational efficiencies that are difficult to achieve with current traditional development methods.”
Siemens’ PAVE360 deployment on AWS incorporates Arm IP, which is built for vehicle-specific workloads, functional system software, physical world simulation and algorithm development tools such as Siemens’ Simcenterâ„¢ Prescan, and hybrid fidelity EDA modeling and simulation engines. PAVE360 seamlessly integrates these resources, enabling vehicle simulation not only on the engineer’s desktop, but also in a more integrated and secure cloud environment, significantly reducing the cost and resource requirements of manufacturers, eliminating the need for expensive IT upgrades for high-speed simulation, and helping automotive engineers focus on meaningful improvements.
Dipti Vachani, senior vice president and general manager of the Automotive business line at Arm, said: “Software-defined vehicles are the way to survive in the automotive industry and require new technologies and approaches to enable faster and more agile development. Siemens’ innovative PAVE360 solutions accelerate the development of automotive systems to meet increasingly demanding consumer expectations. Working with Siemens and AWS, we are able to support a wide range of use cases across Arm’s automotive platform, covering the entire supply chain from IP evaluation to fleet management.”
Wendy Bauer, Vice president of Automotive and Manufacturing at AWS, said: “The digital twin approach is becoming increasingly common in the automotive industry, and AWS is able to provide the computing power and infrastructure for it. “By mapping the right embedded environment to an optimized AWS instance with Siemens PAVE360, while using Arm’s automotive enhanced IP, Oems and suppliers are able to implement innovative SDV solutions and approaches.”