GENIVI Alliance

GENIVI Alliance
Formation March 2009[1]
Type Not for Profit Consortium
Headquarters San Ramon, California, United States
Membership
Founding Charter, Charter, Core, Associate[2]
Key people
 Kyle Walworth, (Chairman), Darren Benjamin, (President), Robert Zompi (Vice President), Armando Hernandez (Secretary), Marek Neumann (Treasurer)
Website www.genivi.org

The GENIVI Alliance is a non-profit automotive industry alliance committed to driving the broad adoption of open source, In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) software and providing open technology for the connected car. The GENIVI Alliance was founded on March 2, 2009 by BMW Group, Delphi, GM, Intel, Magneti-Marelli, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Visteon, and Wind River Systems.[1]

The alliance provides its members with a global networking community of more than 140 companies, joining connected car stakeholders with world-class developers in a collaborative environment, resulting in free, open source middleware.

Work from GENIVI members and the community results in shortened development cycles, faster time to market, and reduced costs for companies developing open software for IVI and the connected car.

Structure

The GENIVI structure contains the following:

The board consists of Founding Charter and Charter members, and a small number of elected Core members.

Each of the Expert Groups is led by an Automotive OEM and supported by a Tier 1 supplier.

Goals

GENIVI is an open development community collaboratively producing automotive software components, standard APIs, and a development platform for in-vehicle infotainment and connected vehicle solutions. Having introduced Linux and open source software approaches to the automotive software ecosystem, GENIVI provides OEMs and their suppliers new and more efficient methods of producing car software. GENIVI focuses on delivering a GENIVI Development Platform (GDP) [3] that equips both automotive and non-automotive developers to rapidly prototype new, innovative solutions in an automotive, embedded Linux context.

GENIVI manages a members-only GENIVI Compliance program [4] based on the GENIVI Platform Compliance Specification which is released twice annually to GENIVI members. More than 20 companies have successfully registered their IVI solutions as GENIVI Compliant(tm).[5]

Finally, GENIVI members gather twice a year for its all member meetings where members are updated with informative content and enjoy technical breakouts and a popular member showcase event.

Deliverables

GENIVI Development Platform (GDP)

The primary deliverable from GENIVI is its open source, automotive development platform where prototypes and innovative IVI and connected vehicle solutions can be rapidly developed and tested in an open community. GDP [3] runs on a number of professional automotive hardware platforms (Intel, Renesas, nVidia, Qualcomm) as well as low cost boards like the RaspberryPi 2/3. This makes the GDP a useful tool for both professional automotive developers and non-automotive developers needing a low cost and fast way of developing automotive software.

The GDP incorporates much of the remaining deliverables from the community listed below.

Software architecture

At the core of GENIVI deliverables is a software architecture consisting of functional requirements and the software components that implement them. The Architecture is best described in the GENIVI Platform Compliance Specification, a members-only document that is updated twice a year.

Software components

The GENIVI software architecture is mainly made of existing open source software components, but automotive-specific software is also implemented to complete the GENIVI architecture. This automotive-specific software respects the GENIVI license policy and is hosted in public open source projects. GENIVI has launched its own public open source project[6] where they host the repositories of more than 20 software components including the ones listed below:

The software interfaces of GENIVI software components are defined using Franca IDL. Based on this formally defined interface description language, integration with other platforms and standards can be established. This allows the interoperability of GENIVI systems and non-GENIVI systems. (e.g., an integration with the AUTOSAR standard is developed in 2014.[7]

Development baseline

The GENIVI Alliance defines and maintains reference baselines. Those baselines are public open source software platforms listed as part of the GENIVI open source software projects.[8] The goals of the GENIVI baselines are:

The GENIVI software baselines are compatible with both ARM and x86 architectures.

Compliance program

The GENIVI compliance program evaluates and certifies the infotainment platforms against the GENIVI software architecture defined in the GENIVI Platform Compliance Specification. The GENIVI compliance program is a member benefit for GENIVI members.

The GENIVI Alliance has already registered multiple compliant platforms for each of the GENIVI software architecture releases.

Members

GENIVI has more than 140 members,[9] among them:

OEM MEMBERS

TIER 1 MEMBERS

OSV, MIDDLEWARE, HARDWARE & SERVICES SUPPLIERS

SILICON MEMBERS

References

  1. 1 2 Wuelfing, Britta (3 March 2009). "CeBIT 2009: BMW and Partners Found GENIVI Open Source Platform". Linux Pro Magazine. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
  2. ↑ "GENIVI Members ˆ GENIVI Alliance". Genivi.org. Retrieved 2016-11-10.
  3. 1 2 http://at.projects.genivi.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=11567210
  4. ↑ http://www.genivi.org/genivi-compliance-program
  5. ↑ http://www.genivi.org/compliant-products
  6. ↑ https://github.com/genivi
  7. ↑ Smethurst, Graham. "Changing the In-Vehicle Infotainment Landscape" (PDF). GENIVI Alliance.
  8. ↑ http://at.projects.genivi.org/wiki/display/PROJ/meta-ivi
  9. ↑ "GENIVI Members | GENIVI Alliance". Genivi.org. Retrieved 2012-03-08.
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