Automotive Linux Wiki

Overall Jira tracking for the demonstrator can be found in this issue

• Yocto 2.0
• BSPs
  • Renesas R-Car 2 - Porter board and others
  • QEMU
  • NXP - i.MX6x - Wandboard
  • Intel - Minnowboard Max
  • TI - Jacinto 6 - Vayu board
• IVI Audio Manager
• IVI Layer Manager
• Continuous Integration and Automated Test Improvements

• Hardware
  • Renesas Porter board + Expansion Board
  • NXP board (ordering information TBD)
  • (Optional) TI Vayu
  • (Optional) Intel Minnowboard Max
  • Connectivity - Wifi, Bluetooth, CAN/LIN via USB, MOST (via USB)
  • Displays
    • Porter Board
    • Front - this HD touchscreen monitor or similar for Porter board
    • Front - Built-in monitor for Vayu
    • Rear Display Connected via MOST
      • 2x Boundary Devices Display
      • 2x Boundary Devices Board For the CPU board, multiple types are available. The Nit6Q_W Quad-Core, 1GB DDR3, TiWi-BLE + Antenna was used in the demonstrator.

• Vehicle Hardware
  • 5.1 Audio via MOST
  • Actuators and fan for HVAC connected via CAN - same hardware as CES 2016 demo.
  • Lexus Remote Touch or BMW iDrive style controller connected via CAN for input
  • Optional - Steering wheel with audio controls
  • AM/FM Tuner - recommend using the RTLSDR library for Realtek RTL2832U-based USB Dongles

• Apps
  • Homescreen
  • Media player with audio and video players
  • AM/FM tuner
  • Navigation
  • HVAC Control
  • Web Browser using wired Wifi or Bluetooth connection
  • Settings - Bluetooth pairing and connection management * Settings - Wifi access point connection management

• Capabilities
  • Demonstrate multiple audio streams (switching and mixing)
  • Hardware accelerated video
  • Multiple display capability (front and rear seat)
  • Navigation app improvements using open source version of the app
  • Upgraded automotive simulation with Remote Touch and Steering Wheel integration
  • Media discovery from Bluetooth device, SD card, and embedded flash
  • Media playing from Bluetooth device, SD Card, and/or embedded flash
  • User Interface
    • Scroll and select items using touch screen
    • Scroll and select items using CAN based input device (iDrive)
  • Fsatboot(Hibernation porter only)

• Start-Up Behavior
  • Resume from last screen at start up. In other words if the user was in the media player restart should be into media player.
• Home Screen
  • Updated home screen art work to differentiate from CES
  • Optional - ability to select from different themes or color schemes
  • Optional - ability to reorder apps or on the home screen

• Connectivity (via Connman)
  • Bluetooth
    • Profiles - HFP, A2DP, AVRCP, PAN
    • Pair/unpair Bluetooth device
    • Connect/ disconnect paired Bluetooth device
    • Play media from Bluetooth phone
    • Optional - Use Bluetooth to connect to web
    • Optional - Telephony app
    • Optional - Contact sync from paired device
  • Wifi
    • Connect to open access point
    • Connect/reconnect to secure access point
    • Disconnect from access point
• Audio
  • Create front and rear audio zones for applications
  • Choose zone(s) for each application
  • Mix audio from multiple sources (can be external or internal) for output to one or more zones

• Video
  • Create front and rear video zones for applications
  • Optional - Use multiple displays in the rear seat zone
  • Optional - Create multiple rear seat zones so that different passengers can watch different videos

• Media Player
  • Audio
    • Play/pause/next track/last track etc for audio
    • Support multi-zone audio (i.e., can have different audio streams routed to different zones)
  • Play/pause/next track/last track etc for video
    • Support multi-zone video (i.e., different video streams routed to different displays)

• Navigation
  • Select destination using touch display or iDrive
  • Start/stop navigation
  • Select POI from menu
  • Navigate to POI
  • Navigation audio playing from front audio zone only. Note: no audio support in ALS version of the navigation app.
    • Optional - lower volume in rear zone by 50% when navigation prompt plays in front

• Web Browser
  • Browse web from wired wifi or Bluetooth connection
  • Streaming media routed to proper zone (front and/or rear) depending on where the browser is launched from)