Gabriele Pulini

PAVE360: From Chip-to-Vehicle Verification Continuity

Mentor Emulation Division

IP-SoC Grenoble, December 2019

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Autonomous Driving: Technology Convergence Creates New Challenges

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Big Data

AI

OTA Updates

Autonomous Driving

V2X Communication

Security5G

Cloud Computing

Safety

Increasing software and hardware complexity

Massive verification and validation cycles

Safety, securitycompliance

Growing number and variety of sensors

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Electronic system of system challenges for AV verification and validation

Sensing Decision-making

5G

> 0 I 0 0 0 1

1 1 0 0

V2XV2V …

GPS

Vehicle levelEnvironment & Traffic Vehicle performance & dynamics

System level

Acting

Integrated Circuit level

V2X level

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ISO-26262

• FuSa

• HW & SW Hazards

ISO-21448

• SOTIF

• Functional scenarios

Safety Standards Verification

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Self-driving technology requires massive verification cycles to reach safety for “Level 5”

0 1 2 3 54No

AutomationDriver

assistancePartial

automationConditionalautomation

Highautomation

Fullautomation

Driver role

Vehicle

roleSAELevel

“14.2 billion miles of testing is

needed”Akio Toyoda, CEO of Toyota

Paris Auto Show 2016

“Design validation will be a

major – if not the largest –

cost component”Roland Berger

“Autonomous Driving” 2014

“While hardware innovations

will deliver - software will

remain a critical bottleneck”McKinsey

“When will the robots hit the road?

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A Virtual System Validation Environment to Shift Left The Development Cycle

6

Sense Decide Actuate

Siemens MentorHardware Verification Platform

Drivetrain

BrakingSteering

Siemens AMESim

Siemens Tass’ PreScan

AMESim

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Virtual testing of autonomous driving functions accelerates time to safety goals

Simcenter PreScan (TASS)—World modeling and

scenario building• Road sections, bridges, etc.• Trees, buildings, traffic signs• Cars, trucks, pedestrians• Weather conditions

—Sensor model library– Camera – Radar– Lidar– Ultrasonic– Infrared– V2X– GPS

Adaptive Cruise Control

Lane Keeping Assist

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Verify Many Driving ConditionsVirtual Scenario Modeling

Generate synthetic real-world traffic scenario in any

weather and time-specific conditions

to accelerate training and

validation of ML algorithms

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Hardware Emulation is the Ideal Platformfor System-of-Systems Verification and Validation

Veloce is a special purpose supercomputer for modeling digital integrated circuits

Veloce offers the performance needed for verifying complex electronics parts of the system

Veloce emulation technology enables new design and verification methodologies from chips to systems

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High Performance Solution: Simcenter PreScan with Veloce emulation

ProcessingSystem-on-

Chip

Analog

Safety

Digital

Security

Machine Learning

Software

Test

SENSE DECIDE VALUE

Verification of ADAS chips in the context of many different traffic scenarios

Full design visibility for comprehensive debug of SW and HW and SW/HW interactions

Fault injection & safety analysis

PreScan generates virtual driving scenarios and sensor data

Veloce verifies the most complex chip designs

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Accurate Vehicle Dynamics Models It’s Key

• Add accuracy to chassis system and tire models to simulate braking and steering behavior and body movements

• Predict body movement and vibrations precisely

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Translation of subjective definitions of comfort into objective data

Accurate braking distance prediction

Vehicle Behavior Modeling At the Right Fidelity Level

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OSI

Electronics and Mechanical Must Be Verified Virtually

Powertrain model Braking model

Sensor

Modeling

Vehicle Dynamics Modeling

ACTUATOR CONTROL

SENSOR SIGNALS

DYNAMIC STATE

Computer’s view

Sce

na

rio

Decision Making

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Digital Twin Solution Part of thePAVE360 Program

Faster TTM

Greater Efficiency

Collaboration

Real-time Insights

Reduce development times and increase quality while shortening time to market by shifting left

More efficient and reliable software by providing high-speed virtual platforms long before silicon

Supports geographically dispersed teams collaborating on pre-silicon development and post-silicon debug

Track progress to requirements and schedule through incremental metrics for safety, security, power, performance and benchmarks pre-silicon

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