Sonatus Foundation

Accelerate Innovation with a Flexible, Future-Ready Vehicle Platform

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

Drive continuous vehicle improvements with a software-defined architecture

Sonatus Foundation provides essential software building blocks that add flexibility, configurability, and upgradeability to vehicle Electronic/Electronic (E/E) architectures.

Accelerate
time-to-market

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

Enable continuous enhancements

Add dynamic configurability to your vehicle E/E architecture to continuously adapt to changes in vehicle electronics, security demands, application workloads, and user experiences. 

Future-proof
vehicle architectures

Build vehicle platforms 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.

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Network Services

Dynamically manage and adapt vehicle networks to accommodate mixed-criticality application workloads with varying requirements for bandwidth, latency, security, and resilience.  

  • In-Vehicle Network Manager
    • Hardware-agnostic switch interface abstraction
    • Real-time control, adaptive configuration, OTA-ready
    • High-performance, SDV-ready network foundation
    • Deep network diagnostics and visibility
    • Reliable and safe network OTA updates
    • End-to-end automotive network security

Data Services

Evolve from a signal-based to a service-oriented data exchange to enable cross-domain applications and streamline in-vehicle data storage and access.

  • Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Adapter
    • Configuration Management
    • Multi-protocol support
    • Dynamic service integration
    • Real-time service discovery
    • Robust security and access control
    • Scalable and high-performance
  • Network shared storage
    • Adaptive, usage-based storage management
    • Virtualized, compressed, and purge-ready storage
    • Secure data access with encryption controls
    • Cloud-synced policies and health monitoring

Compute Services

Simplify the creation, deployment, configuration, and management of containerized automotive applications to support cloud-native application development and deployment.

  • Container Manager
    • Container lifecycle management
    • Compatible with POSIX OS, Adaptive AUTOSAR, SOA
    • Fine-grained resource isolation and access control
    • Virtual network for container-to-container and host communication
    • Runtime isolation of containers for security
    • OTA updates of container images
Commercial Vehicles

Reduce Vehicle Cost and Expand Revenue Opportunities

Learn more about Sonatus solutions for Commercial Vehicles
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 Red Hat In-Vehicle OS, EB Corbos, 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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