GDP-ivi: The Platform that May One Day Drive Your Car

02/17/2016

GENIVI Alliance announces the release of the first beta of the GENIVI Demo Platform ivi9.

The GENIVI Alliance has just released GDP-ivi9, an open source demo platform for in-vehicle infotainment developers and manufacturers. The GNU/Linux-based platform allows developers to showcase how the middleware of a free in-vehicle infotainment system will work.

This beta software comes in the shape of a downloadable virtual machine that simulates the inner workings of GENIVI’s in-vehicle infotainment system. You can, for example, tweak the audio signals (music, phone, text to speech); try out the widgets used to create interfaces; or see a simulation of the 3D navigation system.

GDP-ivi is designed for the engineers who implement the system, i.e. this is an interface to the middleware, not for the end-users. The system showcases many of the GENIVI’s projects that are already available as Free Software.

The members of the GENIVI Alliance include auto-industry heavyweights such as BMW, Renault, Honda, Volvo, Jaguar and more; alongside automotive component manufacturers and middleware, hardware, and service suppliers.

You can read more about the GDP-ivi9 and download the virtual machine from GENIVI’s Open Source site.

( Paul C. Brown)

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