Collaboration enables AI-based automotive safety

Infineon Technologies AG and Aurora Labs have debuted a new set of AI-based solutions at CES 2024, which are designed to improve the long-term reliability and safety of critical automotive components, including steering, braking and airbags. These automotive safety solutions leverage Aurora Labs’ vehicle software Line-of-Code Intelligence (LOCI) AI technology and Infineon’s 32-bit TriCore AURIX TC4x family of microcontrollers (MCUs).

Infineon’s AURIX TC4x MCUs (Source: Infineon Technologies AG)

Targeting improved predictive maintenance for the automotive industry, the new solution is centered on Infineon’s AURIX TC4x family of MCUs with real-time safety and security performance with Aurora Labs’ AI- and ML-based features implemented in the AURIX TC4x parallel processing unit (PPU), a purpose-built AI accelerator. These features do not share any resources with the OEM applications running on the CPU, Infineon said.

The partnership has resulted in a solution that enables AI-driven automated processes throughout the software lifecycle of an automobile to deliver safer vehicle systems. It supports real-time monitoring and response to software failures at the MCU- and ECU-level according to WP29 requirements and helps prevent malicious attacks and hardware safety failure by protecting applications and over-the-air (OTA) updates.

“With the combination of Infineon’s proven AURIX MCUs, along with Aurora Labs’ software to prevent silent data corruption and software misbehavior in chipsets, our new solution gives car manufacturers and drivers an extended level of safety confidence for critical automotive applications such as steering, braking and airbags, said Thomas Schneid, senior director Software, Partner and Ecosystem Management of Infineon, in a statement.

Infineon and Aurora Labs’ new predictive safety maintenance solution is available now. The AURIX MCUs are designed for next-generation eMobility, advanced driver assistance (ADAS), automotive E/E architectures and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.