Green Hills Software has announced support for imaging radar processors from NXP Semiconductors targeting automotive ADAS and autonomous applications. The two companies are collaborating to develop radar software to support L2 to L5 autonomous driving.

Through a technology partnership, the companies offer an integrated and scalable solution that brings together the industry’s first

NXP’s 16nm imaging radar processor, the NXP S32R45, will be combined with Green Hills’ INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS) and software development tools from Green Hills. The common software and hardware architecture will span the S32R45 and S32R41 radar processors.

“Imaging radar has emerged as a premier sensing modality that provides object detection and the classification of road users, enhances driver assistance systems, and helps enable autonomous driving”, said Steffen Spannagel, Vice President & General Manager ADAS at NXP. “The combination of NXP’s radar processors S32R45 and S32R41 and the Green Hills RTOS and software development tools enables carmakers and Tier 1s to bring 4D imaging radar’s benefits to a large number of vehicles while easing the development of radar software.”

“Green Hills is thrilled to be partnering with NXP on its next generation of advanced radar processors by offering customers a production-focused SEooC RTOS solution with 10x smaller memory footprint than Linux-based offerings, delivered with schedule-reducing advanced debug and performance-optimised tools,” said Dan Mender, VP Business Development at Green Hills Software. “By utilising Green Hills INTEGRITY radar SDK for NXP’s S32R45 and S32R41 processors, customers achieve significant increases in developer productivity and shorter time to production.”