Sonatus Foundation

Build a flexible vehicle architecture that can evolve over time

Leverage a market-proven product to build a dynamic vehicle software infrastructure that can support continuous and rapid innovation.

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Achieve continuous improvement for vehicles through a software defined architecture

Sonatus Foundation provides key software building blocks to enable the transition to a vehicle architecture that enables innovations and efficiency throughout the production lifecycle.

Accelerate time to market

Accelerate
time-to-market

Market-ready and modular product is designed to adapt to your specific E/E design, creating a vehicle architecture that allows designers to focus on differentiating features and applications.

Reduce development costs

Reduce
total cost of ownership

Dynamically adapt your vehicle’s software architecture through configuration policies that can be applied at any time, reducing development and update costs.

Future-proof with a vehicle architecture that is configurable

Future-proof
vehicle architecture

Deliver vehicles with technologies that meet current and upcoming infrastructure requirements including zonal and centralized high performance compute architectures.

Features

Sonatus Foundation includes several major software technology building blocks to help accelerate the transition to a dynamic and adaptable hardware architecture for vehicles of all types

Sonatus Foundation architecture diagram including Data Services, Network Services, Application Services, and Security Services, coupled with Foundation Cloud
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Network Services

Manage and configure all in-vehicle networks, interconnection between CAN and Ethernet domains, and vehicle-to-cloud communications.

  • Ethernet network manager
  • CAN-Ethernet gateway
  • Vehicle-to-cloud controller
  • Diagnostics manager

Data Services

Ensure the vehicle infrastructure can support easy, secure and cost-efficient access to sensors and other data across vehicles.

  • Network shared storage
  • Log analysis service
  • Dynamic DBC

Application Services

Manage run-time application compute resources for vehicles, delivering optimal performance and configuring service orchestration across systems in real time.

  • SOA management service
  • Container management service

Security Services

Protect vehicles from cybersecurity threats and potential hazards to their networks, host processors, and other interfaces.

  • Unified intrusion detection and prevention service
  • ECU monitoring agent
Zonal Architecture

Build adaptive zonal networks

Learn how the Sonatus Zonal Architecture Solution, built using Sonatus Foundation, provides advanced technologies for network resiliency and optimization of applications with mixed criticality, to address the challenges of hardware complexity for the automotive industry around the world.

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Partnerships

Partnering to Accelerate Vehicle Software Innovation

NXP
FoxConn
Marvell
SKhynix
STMicroelectronics
Realtek
MIcron
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Frequently asked questions?

Does Sonatus Foundation replace the existing architecture in vehicles?

Foundation is software that complements the existing E/E architecture, giving OEMs the ability to make them dynamically configurable across networking and security, managing containers and SOA services, and handling data access and storage. In turn, Foundation Cloud is responsible for empowering engineers with configuration management for rapid development and tuning of complex capabilities.
Sonatus Foundation consists of cloud and in-vehicle software that enables advanced capabilities for the automotive industry. Foundation’s embedded in-vehicle software can be installed on one of the high performance compute (HPC) ECUs, such as a centralized domain controller or gateway during or after the development process. The gateway plays a crucial role to connect to the many other systems through CAN or Ethernet networks. It also requires integration with or access to vehicle network switches.
Sonatus Foundation runs on any Arm-based hardware such as the NXP S32G family of application processors. It requires a POSIX-compliant OS such as Automotive Grade Linux, and is compatible with Adaptive AUTOSAR and SOAFEE.
Sonatus Foundation enables next-generation development across vehicles of all types, including passenger cars, trucks, buses, and specialty vehicles. It enables OEMs and Tier-1s to create hardware that includes sophisticated electronics systems and modern compute technologies but avoid the limitations and complexity of earlier hardcoded systems.
OEM and Tier-1 customers can accelerate their new product developments and rapidly implement new technologies and features in their E/E architecture. Whether connecting sensors to new subsystems, or ensuring safety systems receive priority, Sonatus Foundation helps bring the power of modern networking and application management into a modern vehicle architecture.
While developments of autonomous driving and advanced ADAS safety features are one common usage of the increased computing power of vehicles, that is not the primary focus of Sonatus Foundation. Instead it enables OEMs to develop many features into cars and trucks by enabling a vehicle architecture that enabling new technology for every aspect of vehicles including automation, diagnostics, and increased quality across many subsystems.
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