Vulkan SC Overview

“The modernization of vehicle cockpits includes advanced driver-assistance systems and an increased number of displays – all of which rely on safety-critical systems to provide real-time performance, safe rendering, and safe compute capabilities. The Vulkan Safety Critical Working Group is an important complement to Arm’s extensive functional safety portfolio, and together we can provide open, industry standard APIs for GPU acceleration to power these cockpit features.”

“Codeplay has a number of customers demanding safety for AI applications that require high performance ‘compute’, but with predictable performance. The most common example is self-driving cars, but there are a range of applications where safety and high compute performance are essential, including new intelligent medical devices. Surprisingly, given its videogame roots, Vulkan is a great solution to this challenge. Working with partners in the Vulkan Safety Critical Working Group to deliver a new safe standard is a very exciting opportunity for us.”

“CoreAVI’s safety critical Vulkan-based drivers and associated DO-178C DAL A and ISO 26262 certification evidences are important components in our platforms for safety certifiable applications. We are excited to chair the Vulkan Safety Critical Working Group and to be driving new standards that enable the deployment of safety critical graphics and compute applications.”

“Mobica's customers and partners are migrating to Vulkan for both graphics and compute applications. As the API has gained momentum, the need for a safety critical implementation to support automotive projects has become clear. We are pleased to be contributing to the efforts of the new working group and look forward to supporting both implementers of safety critical Vulkan drivers and application developers to create and deploy applications compliant with a safety critical API based on Vulkan.”

“Mixing safety-critical with non-safety critical functions in the vehicle cockpit is addressed in the GENIVI cross-domain integration activities. Our Hypervisor project is developing a standards-based, open-licensed specification for diverse virtualization and operating systems called the Automotive Virtual Platform. We are looking forward to starting new collaboration with the Vulkan Safety Critical Working Group on the continued development of Vulkan to address the safety challenges of graphics virtualization.”

“GPU acceleration is vital in multiple domains where functional safety is required. The Vulkan Safety Critical Working Group can facilitate widespread industry adoption of new APIs for GPU capabilities in safety critical markets such as automotive.”