Lauterbach and Corellium partner on SDV development

Lauterbach and Corellium have announced a virtual Arm Reference Design-1 AE automotive hardware that enables the development of automotive software directly in the cloud before physical chips are available. This demonstrates the first Arm RD-1 AE shift left offering.

Arm RD-1 AE is an advanced automotive reference design featuring Arm Neoverse™ V3AE application processors as well as Cortex®-R82AE-based safety islands and a Cortex-M55-based Runtime Security Engine. It addresses the requirements of complex software-defined vehicle (SDV) architectures. The platform offers a complete set of software and features such as hypervisor-based virtualisation on the application cores and safety islands and the ability to run multiple rich and real-time operating systems in virtual machines (VMs).

The Arm RD-1 AE is offered as a virtual model on Corellium’s Virtual Hardware platform. The virtual model claims to deliver unmatched speed as the workloads are executed natively on Arm hardware in the cloud and do not have to be emulated or simulated on x86 server processors.

Engineers can develop their applications on any Corellium device using Lauterbach’s market-leading TRACE32® debug tools with all known features, such as multicore debugging of the individual A, R, and M CPU clusters from Arm as well as hypervisor, OS, and AUTOSAR awareness. Developers get a complete insight into the entire system, including the whole software stack underneath their applications.

“The Arm RD-1 AE leverages our latest Armv9 technology to enable the AI, security, and safety capabilities needed to develop next-generation SDVs,” said Suraj Gajendra, vice president of automotive product and software solutions at Arm. “Lauterbach and Corellium’s new virtual prototype helps automotive software developers start on their work much earlier and accelerates time to market for key automotive applications.”

“Shift Left is a megatrend in the development of SDV software,” says Norbert Weiss, Managing Director at Lauterbach.

“Our innovative offering enables automotive developers to innovate just as quickly in the cloud as on physical chips,” says Bill Neifert, SVP of partnerships at Corellium. “By partnering with Lauterbach and leveraging the Arm Virtual Hardware platform powered by Corellium, we have transformed the development process for software-defined vehicles and modernised the automotive industry.”

A live demonstration will take place at Embedded World 2025 in Nuremberg

Corellium Arm-RD-1AE virtual platform

Debugging Software Defined Vehicles

Arm Reference Design-1 AE