Eclipse Safe Open Vehicle Core

The Eclipse Safe Open Vehicle Core project aims to develop an open-source core stack for Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs), specifically targeting embedded high-performance Electronic Control Units (ECUs).

As these ECUs carry multiple processors, the project also targets for interoperability between these processors.

To ensure applicability in the automotive domain we ensure compliance with relevant safety standards, such as ISO 26262 for functional safety, providing a reliable foundation for safety-critical applications and adherence to stringent security standards, implementing robust cybersecurity measures in accordance with ISO/SAE 21434 and UNECE WP.29.

A key aspect of the project is the design of a modular and extensible architecture, allowing easy integration and customization for various automotive applications, ensuring flexibility and scalability. Additionally, the project focuses on end-to-end optimization throughout the stack to achieve maximum efficiency and performance.

The project is guided by several key principles:

Common Stack & Industry-Wide Collaboration

The Safe Open Vehicle Core project aims to create a common full stack solution of a software runtime that serves as the best possible solution for shared industry problems. By achieving efficiencies through a single, joint solution instead of multiple specific ones, the project addresses non-differentiating scopes and ensures that the scope is significant for multiple parties, rather than catering to singular interests.

Speed

The project accelerates development by working in open source, focusing on code-centric and iterative methods rather than primarily on textual specifications.

Abstraction and Extensibility

The project emphasizes the decoupling of hardware (HW) and software (SW), ensuring that applications do not depend on specific hardware characteristics. It establishes predetermined breaking points to enable the exchange of implementations of individual layers, aspects, and components, such as ECU communication protocols. Additionally, it focuses on enabling project-specific extensions of the stack, providing a flexible framework that can be customized and extended to meet the specific requirements of different projects.

Quality & Efficiency

The Safe Open Vehicle Core project aims for a lean, no-frills solution to lower complexity and increase efficiency. The project strives for support of modern implementation paradigms and languages like Rust or C++, uses human-readable specification languages that are domain and target-driven, and avoids complex exchange data formats. It seeks the optimal balance between modularity and resource consumption and follows state-of-the-art processes to develop safe and secure software in an open-source environment.

By achieving these goals and adhering to these key principles, the [SafeOpenVehicleCore] Project aims to deliver a versatile and secure core stack that supports the evolving needs of the automotive industry and accelerates the adoption of software-defined vehicle technologies.