Supporting everyone in the automotive industry value chain to develop custom SoCs in a fully virtualized environment

On the 29th, Siemens introduced PAVE360, a pre-silicon autonomous validation program to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicle platforms.

PAVE360 provides a comprehensive collaboration environment that enables multi-suppliers to cooperate across the automotive industry ecosystem to develop next-generation automotive chips.

PAVE360 enables digital twin simulations that extend beyond processors to automotive hardware and software subsystems, entire vehicle models, sensor data fusion, traffic flow, and ultimately, smart city simulations where autonomous vehicles will operate.

Ravi Subramanian, Vice President and General Manager of Siemens Mentor IC Verification Solutions, said, “PAVE360 is the first result of an innovation process born two years ago by combining the ideas and technologies of Mentor and Siemens employees,” adding that it “provides a collaborative environment among various ecosystems necessary for customers to develop customized semiconductor and software solutions that will lead the revolution in the field of autonomous vehicles.”

PAVE360 is for all automatic drivingIt provides complete closed-loop verification capabilities for sensing, decision-making, and operation paradigms at the center of the system. These principles are critical for rigorous pre-silicon verification of deterministic (rule-based) and non-deterministic (AI-based) approaches to safe autonomous driving under a complete digital twin environment.


Popularization of automotive IC design and development
As improvements in manufacturing processes become increasingly important in automotive innovation, automakers are focusing on customized semiconductor designs that can appropriately combine the cost, power, performance, and advanced features required to develop future autonomous vehicles.

PAVE360 leads the democratization of chip design, helping automotive manufacturers, chip manufacturers, front-line suppliers, software companies, and other stakeholders collaborate to enable the development of highly complex semiconductor devices for autonomous vehicles and user customization.

In addition, PAVE360 provides a powerful collaboration platform that accelerates chip design and software verification, enabling the development of model-specific semiconductors for the first autonomous vehicles.

PAVE360 builds a design-simulation-emulation solution that encompasses everything from individual blocks of SoC IP to hardware and software on the SoC, vehicle subsystems, and the construction of vehicles for smart cities. This is a true 'chip-to-city' approach based on the digitalization that is gradually spreading in the automotive industry.

Jim McGregor, Senior Analyst at TIRIAS Research, said, “PAVE360 enables everyone in the automotive industry’s value chain to develop custom SoCs in a fully virtualized environment.”

He continued by explaining, “PAVE360 enables the design of SoCs that optimize vehicle performance, power, safety, heat dissipation, and form factor, as required by drivers and autonomous vehicles,” adding, “PAVE360 is part of Siemens’ closed-loop simulation solution that supports designers in testing everything from semiconductor development to vehicle validation.”

Meanwhile, the PAVE360 program has been introduced at the Center for Practical Autonomy Lab in Novi, Michigan, and is being utilized as an industry-standard verification and feasibility program to model solutions in the autonomous driving ecosystem.