Title
AWS re:Invent 2023 - Accelerate automotive cockpit development with Panasonic SkipGen & AWS (AUT103)
Summary
- Panasonic Automotive Systems and AWS are collaborating to accelerate automotive cockpit development.
- The automotive industry is shifting from distributed electronic control units to consolidated high-performance compute units, with a focus on software-defined vehicles (SDVs).
- Software complexity in vehicles has increased, leading to more recalls and decreased customer satisfaction, while software costs have become a dominant factor in vehicle production.
- Panasonic's VataIO has become an industry de facto standard for decoupling hardware and software, allowing for more rapid software development.
- Panasonic introduced SkipGen hardware for cockpit domain controllers, which supports multiple hypervisors and operating systems through VataIO.
- Virtual SkipGen, a cloud-based replica of physical SkipGen, has been launched on AWS, enabling virtual development of digital cockpit systems.
- Virtual SkipGen supports various development use cases, integrates with CI/CD workflows, and allows for sustainable scaling and cost optimization.
- Customers can develop software faster, with confidence, and competitively by reducing dependency on physical hardware and leveraging virtual development environments.
- Panasonic's offering is available on AWS Marketplace, providing early access to software and enabling a software-first approach in automotive development.
Insights
- The automotive industry is increasingly adopting a software-first approach, recognizing software as the primary source of innovation and value in vehicles.
- The transition to SDVs requires a strategic shift towards sophisticated architecture, strong ecosystems, and accelerated product discovery.
- Panasonic's VataIO framework is critical in standardizing device virtualization across different hypervisors and hardware, preventing vendor lock-in and promoting industry-wide collaboration.
- The move to virtual development environments like Virtual SkipGen on AWS Graviton allows for cloud-native binary parity and supports a range of development workflows.
- By leveraging AWS's cloud infrastructure and Panasonic's hardware expertise, automotive companies can improve collaboration, reduce time to market, and enhance their competitive edge.
- The availability of these solutions on the AWS Marketplace simplifies access for customers and demonstrates the growing synergy between cloud service providers and the automotive industry.