Vector expands support for the NXP CoreRide platform
Vector is expanding its strategic collaboration with NXP Semiconductors by contributing embedded software and system integration to the NXP CoreRide platform – NXP’s scalable foundation for Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs).
The collaboration between Vector and NXP Semiconductors focuses on accelerating the industrialisation of Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV). Customers benefit from shorter time-to-market through pre-integrated and optimised software stacks. The joint activities concentrate on software-centric system integration, measurable performance optimisation, and secure boot and update architectures. The latest outcome of this collaboration is the newly released NXP CoreRide Z248 zonal reference system. This system provides OEMs with a ready-to-adopt, real-time compute platform ready for series production.
NXP provides a pre-integrated and pre-configured hardware/software platform based on MICROSAR embedded software products, tightly aligned with NXP hardware. This close coupling of hardware and software significantly reduces system bring-up complexity and lowers integration effort for OEMs. As a result, development teams can begin application development earlier in the program lifecycle. The joint approach shortens evaluation phases, reduces engineering risk, and accelerates vehicle program ramp-up. Users find Vector products such as MICROSAR Classic as software stack, the DaVinci Configurator for the stack configuration, and PREEvision for the system design within the solution package.
Measurable Optimisation of Key System KPIsVector’s base layer solution directly contributes to enhancing NXP CoreRide’s critical system-level performance indicators. This includes optimising boot and startup behaviour to ensure fast and deterministic ECU availability. Update, wake-up, and sleep mechanisms are designed to meet both performance and energy-efficiency requirements of modern zonal architecture. In addition, Vector enhances communication and gateway performance across CAN and Ethernet networks while reducing overall memory footprint.
Collaboration as Key Success FactorVector collaborates closely with hardware suppliers to reduce integration complexity, optimise system performance, and deliver a scalable platform foundation for next-generation vehicle architectures. “SDVs require more than powerful silicon – they require a deeply integrated and validated software stack,” says Jochen Rein, Senior Vice President Business Unit Software Platform at Vector. “By combining our embedded software portfolio and system integration expertise with NXP’s scalable hardware platform, we are enabling OEMs to move from evaluation to series development significantly faster and with reduced technical risk.”
