“In automotive software development, cloud-native-based development and verification can implement an efficient development process for automotive software and play an important role in improving the stability and performance of software.”

At the partner session of 'MATLAB Expo 2025' held on April 8, Seungyeop Chae, CEO of PopcornSAR, explained the synergy effect when PopcornSAR's development solution is used with MATLAB and Simulink, and emphasized how quickly and efficiently development can be completed by verifying in real time on the cloud without hardware in automotive software development.

CEO Seung-Yeop Chae said that as the complexity of automotive software increases day by day, an efficient and stable development environment is more important than ever, and that MATLAB and Simulink are becoming essential tools for automotive software developers.

In particular, he mentioned that Model-Based Design is receiving a great response across industries because it can comprehensively manage all processes of software development.

Model-based The design can build a digital thread that runs from requirements definition to architecture design, implementation, and testing, enabling new features to be delivered without hardware changes, contributing to increasing product value and improving user experience in the automotive industry.

Meanwhile, Popcorn's software provides an SDV (Software Defined Vehicle) development platform and creates synergy effects through collaboration with MATLAB and Simulink.

Popcorn provides a test environment for autonomous driving technology research, and MATLAB and Simulink contribute to verifying and developing vehicle software using this environment.

This collaboration plays a vital role in improving the stability and performance of software.

In particular, Popcorn's SDV platform provides a cloud-based development environment, enabling software verification in a virtual environment without hardware.

A cloud-based development environment based on Simulink provides all the development tools you need immediately in the cloud, without having to install programs on your local machine.

This allows developers to start working right away without having to go through a complicated setup process, proactively resolve issues that may arise during the development phase, and implement an efficient development process.

This approach is very useful in the current situation where software is becoming increasingly important in the automotive industry.

Major automakers such as Hyundai are already using MATLAB and Simulink to design various features of their vehicles.

For example, Hyundai Motor Company is using these tools to streamline its development process in key areas such as body control systems and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).

Additionally, Japanese automaker Mazda is already developing entire vehicles with MATLAB and Simulink, and several Chinese automakers are sharing the software they develop with it with third-party developers via APIs.

CEO Seung-Yeop Chae emphasized, “MATLAB and Simulink are optimized tools for developing safe and reliable software, and will play a central role in the development of future automobile technologies such as autonomous driving and electric vehicles.” He added, “In particular, we are demonstrating even stronger synergy effects through collaboration with Popcorn’s cloud-native-based development solution.”