Pre-integrated ADAS solution from Qorix, Red Hat, and ZF

As automotive systems evolve towards high-performance computing platforms, manufacturers face challenges in managing mixed workloads, particularly with safety and nonsafety applications running on shared hardware. Automakers are often still seeking to break away from hardware-centric, highly sequential platform architecture that does not scale well across product lines and model years. Additionally, proprietary operating systems (OSs), tightly coupled to each new hardware design, are still the rule in automotive. These OSs generally require lengthy commercial negotiation for licensing and access before development can begin, causing costly delays early in the software development cycle.

The industry is increasingly recognizing the imperative to move faster, with greater resource efficiency and cost effectiveness, taking advantage of modern, open technologies, within the open source community and the broader ecosystem. This also means embracing open standards and open collaboration and adopting DevOps methodologies and modern, cloud-native technologies to support rapid, continuous innovation required for the software-defined vehicles (SDVs).

A pre-integrated joint solution offers tremendous value in stakeholder collaboration: 

• Qorix delivers a leading TÜV-safety-certified AUTOSAR Adaptive stack, providing automakers with a middleware that ensures safety, long-term support, and lifecycle maintenance.
• Red Hat provides a Linux®-based in-vehicle OS, supporting efficient resource utilization, mixed-criticality workload handling, and integration with modern DevOps development approaches and cloud-native toolchains.

ZF contributes a production-grade electric control unit (ECU) hardware, proven adaptive cruise control (ACC) application with 20 years of volume production, and extensive advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) expertise. 

Qorix offers a comprehensive portfolio of middleware solutions that support OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers to focus on delivering innovation on top of a stable and production-ready foundation. 

The portfolio includes: 

• Qorix AUTOSAR Classic and Qorix AUTOSAR Adaptive: Both TÜV-certified and series-proven, supporting safety-critical automotive domains across all ECU classes.
• Qorix Performance Stack: A non-AUTOSAR middleware designed for high-performance ECUs and real-time orchestration, bridging Eclipse S-CORE open innovation with industrial-grade deployment.

Red Hat In-Vehicle OS and hybrid cloud platform portfolio offer automotive developers modern software solutions that ensure reliable, predictable behavior for safety-critical systems, even under high load conditions, crucial for ISO 26262 compliance. Red Hat In-Vehicle OS has achieved functional safety certification, to level ASIL B of the ISO 26262 automotive standard, as a Safety Element Out of Context (SEooC), ensuring safety and reusability throughout OEM production series and across models. Importantly, safety recertification is integrated into the OS development and validation process for maximum agility. 

Red Hat has achieved this certification through an innovative container-based solution that ensures Freedom From Interference (FFI) for safety applications by isolating quality management (QM) applications and their resource requirements in a QM partition. While virtual machine (VM) isolation is also supported, this container-based approach provides efficient resource use and greater flexibility and serviceability in deployed applications.

In addition to these benefits, Red Hat In-Vehicle OS also delivers real-time responsiveness, with the PREEMPT_RT support enabled by default, long-term lifecycle support, regular security patches, and over-the-air (OTA) updates support with A/B and rollback for continuous innovation and serviceability.

ZF Parking ECU (PECU) is an affordable and scalable electronic control unit developed to host a variety of automated parking functions, such as automated park assist (APA), automated memorized parking (AMP), and remote park assist (RPA). Its core is a TI TDA4 system-on-chip with 22.000 Dhrystone MIPS (DMIPS) and an 8 TOPS graphics processing unit (GPU), along with several video deserializers, ultrasonic sensor ports, as well as 2 control area networks (CANs) and 1 Ethernet connector in its periphery.

ZF Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) is an advanced driver assistance system that automatically adjusts a vehicle’s speed to maintain a safe following distance and has been in volume production for more than 20 years. Using camera and optional radar sensors, it detects surrounding vehicles as well as other traffic-relevant information to slow down or accelerate without driver input. 

ZF ACC is an affordable option that enhances driving comfort and safety by adjusting speed for the vehicle ahead, upcoming intersections, tight curves, traffic signs and speed limits and traffic lights in highway, rural, and urban environments. It features full-speed ACC with stop and go and advanced feature sets that achieve a Euro NCAP 5-star rating and maintain a smooth ride by supporting early cut-in, overtaking, and merge-in detection maneuvers.

The ZF ACC function runs on top of the Qorix Adaptive middleware solution and Red Hat In-Vehicle OS, combined as a foundational ADAS platform. The hardware platform for the demonstrator is the production-grade ZF Parking ECU. 

In creating this reference blueprint solution, the partners built a demonstration and test
configuration. A laptop runs the popular CANoe software, used for the simulation, analysis,
and test of automotive subsystems, to replay the vehicle logs sent on network to the Parking ECU. The setup also runs ZF VizAD—a tool from ZF’s ADAS division—which is used to visualize the ACC functional outputs.

Manufacturers must embrace open source and open collaboration to accelerate the SDV transformation. By combining Qorix's TÜV-certified middleware expertise, ZF's proven ECU hardware and ADAS domain knowledge, pre-integrated on the safety-certified Red Hat In-Vehicle OS, automotive manufacturers get a reference architecture that shortens integration timelines, reduces development risks, and accelerates the deployment of SDV platforms. 

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