On October 24, the 6th Gasgoos Awards Ceremony 2024 was concluded with success in Shanghai.
Farben received the “Best Technological Practice and Application Award” at the ceremony for its “domestic SoC intelligent cockpit DC platform.” As an upstream and downstream company that has made outstanding contributions to technological innovation and application practices, Farben assists in promoting the high-quality development of China’s automobile industry.
Farben has been developing business in intelligent cockpit solutions and software development. With a focus on domestic IT innovation, Farben provides OEMs/Tier1 with better intelligent cockpit products and solutions, delivering a better user experience to car owners.
Farben’s domestic SoC intelligent cockpit DC platform is a leading cockpit DC platform in China. With multiple advanced technologies, innovation edges, and exceptional performance in practice, it demonstrates a strong development potential and broad prospects.
Highlights in terms of technology and innovation:
1. Domestic IT Innovation
Using massive domestic chips and hardware, including SoC, MCU, SerDes, WIFIBT, 4G module, GPS module, etc., the platform is safe, independent, and cost-effective, with its performance comparable to foreign products of the same level.
2. Solution Innovation
In its solution, Farben uses the SoC+MCU highly integrated architecture to optimize the vehicle-mounted information system. Specifically, SoC is responsible for running the Android-based IVI system to provide rich entertainment and interactive functions; MCU is focused on real-time RTOS tasks, provides meter display, and ensures instant responses to key control functions. SoC and MCU operate independently and exchange data efficiently through the SPI high-speed interface, improving system performance and stability and ensuring the smooth display of driving information.
Farben observes the ASPICE CL2 standards in its development to guarantee software quality; the meter terminal meets the requirements of ISO26262ASIL-B, representing Farben’s great attention to the safety of vehicles and passenger lives.
3. Independent FW Architecture Innovation
Through optimization and reconstruction based on Google’s Android architecture, the platform is improved and enhanced in multiple aspects, including Display, Audio, Video, and Camera, thus improving the performance, reducing the difficulty of secondary development, and shortening the development cycle.
4. Application Innovation
Functions such as eye movement tracking (for human-machine interactions and games), health monitoring (contactless sensing of human health conditions), cloud games (online game play without having to download games), vehicle-phone interconnection, and fast application are introduced creatively.
Application scenarios:
Featuring domestic innovation, Farben’s domestic SoC intelligent cockpit DC platform provides a full set of software and hardware solutions for intelligent cockpits ranging from the application layer to the underlying chip. Serving as a generic platform, it reduces the technical difficulty of intelligent cockpit development and enhances development efficiency. It accommodates different scenarios, including driving, entertainment, monitoring, and high hashrates, thereby reducing costs for customers, bringing benefits to users, enabling industry development, and contributing to domestic IT innovation and development. It can be broadly applied in passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, and other automobile industries and fields.
With constant changes in scientific and technological revolutions, the automobile industry is undergoing a deep reform never seen before. As the core driving force of industry development, technological innovation has presented 10 highlights since this year: the new energy vehicle is running into an era of super charging; hybrid power technology is rising again; electric drive system solutions are upgrading again; solutions for the mass production of advanced intelligent driving are growing explosively; multiple new miniaturized LiDAR products of low costs are making their debuts one after another; the era has kicked off for fuel vehicles and electric vehicles to keep the same level in terms of intelligent technology; cockpit and driving integrated products are emerging in batches; vehicle-mounted display solutions are getting diversified; the application of new-generation high-performance SoC chips to vehicles is accelerating; AI continues to provide enabling forces.
Farben will continue to spend on R&D, innovate services, and work with upstream and downstream partners on the automobile industry chain. While promoting the automobile industry towards faster development, Farben will continuously enable China’s automobile industry to evolve from a leader in manufacturing to a leader in technology.
