QNX Sound offers an unparalleled software platform for innovation in audio-based entertainment, comfort, communications and safety features; unlocks new revenue opportunities for automakers

BlackBerry Limited announced the launch of QNX Sound, an innovative development platform that decouples audio and acoustics software from the vehicle hardware to give audio designers and engineers complete creative freedom to deliver new and exciting in-vehicle sound experiences.

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QNX Sound enables automakers to consolidate all audio and acoustic functions seamlessly and cost-effectively within the main software stack of the software-defined vehicle architecture, using pre-integrated and pre-tested core technologies. This includes a complete out-of-the-box library of automotive acoustics functional modules for telephony, safety alerting, noise reduction, sound enhancement, media playback, etc. The software foundation not only provides more control over quality and functionality of these services, but it also includes advanced tuning tools with a graphical programming interface that unlocks endless signal processing creativity. For the first time, this offers an entirely software-driven foundation for automakers to explore new audio-based services and collaborations with technology companies and multimedia content providers to bring new, value-add features into the vehicle, opening new opportunities to create new revenue streams from the activation of optional features – or to upgrades from base audio to a branded premium level – as on-demand or subscription services.

“In the software-defined vehicle age, audio becomes a new playing field for innovation and differentiation,” said John Wall, Senior Vice President, and Head of QNX at BlackBerry. “QNX Sound is the ultimate digital audio platform for the automotive industry and the most comprehensive foundation available for innovation. Through it, we enable automakers to explore new business opportunities and exciting collaborations that will truly appeal to and excite the end user.”

QNX Sound is the only software-defined audio and acoustics solution for the automotive industry that has been fully tested in production and pre-integrated in next generation System on Chip (SoCs). The platform is pre-integrated with BlackBerry QNX Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and QNX Hypervisor and includes an audio extension mechanism that allows 3^rd party signal processing suppliers to compile and deploy their own c-code algorithms. Furthermore, it is pre-tested with leading measurement and simulation equipment suppliers and industry open standards, like VirtIO to support sound design, tuning and signal flow design capabilities for exciting new features both in the cloud and, eventually, on hardware targets.

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Hendrik Hermann, Vice President Automotive at Dirac, shares his enthusiasm for revolutionizing car audio, saying: “At Dirac, our passion is to unlock the untapped potential in every audio system, particularly in cars, where great sound is a vital part of the experience. Working hand in hand with the team at BlackBerry QNX, we’ve integrated a fully scalable Dirac plug-in featuring all our technologies that seamlessly integrate with the QNX Sound platform. This collaboration empowers OEMs with easy access to our solutions, maximizing fidelity and immersion, and offers the flexibility to continually enhance and refresh the in-car audio experience for listeners.”

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• Only 9% of respondents say they are satisfied with the in-store shopping experience; only 14% say the same for online shopping.

• Roughly 80% of consumers surveyed who haven’t used AI for shopping expressed an interest in using the technology for various aspects of their shopping journey.

As the retail landscape faces mounting pressure from evolving consumer expectations and economic headwinds, a new global study from the IBM Institute for Business Value, reveals a widening gap between shopper demands and the current retail offering.

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The third biennial consumer study*, “Revolutionize retail with AI everywhere: Customers won’t wait,” surveyed nearly 20,000 global consumers and reveals a dissatisfaction with retail experiences, with only 9% of consumers surveyed saying they are content with in-store and 14% content with online shopping.  Yet technology could play an important role in enhancing the overall shopping experience, with over half of the respondents indicating they are eager for AI enhancements like virtual assistants (55%) and AI applications (59%) as they shop. Influenced by inflation, six in ten consumers surveyed also say inflation has impacted how they shop, with 62% saying that price is a top reason they switch stores or brands.

“In the face of rapidly shifting consumer expectations and the stark realities of today’s economic picture for households, the retail sector is presented with an ongoing challenge—and an unprecedented opportunity,” said Luq Niazi, Global Managing Director at IBM. “We are seeing that today’s consumers, faced with more choices and channels than ever, are increasingly making their purchasing decisions based on the cost and the quality of experiences that retailers provide. The IBM IBV Consumer 2024 Study underscores an opportunity for retailers to integrate AI and other technologies into both digital and physical shopping experiences to meet these changing consumer demands and their economic challenges. Leveraging advances in AI technologies, retailers can forge ahead into a new era of commerce and fulfilment, leading with innovation to create shopping experiences that are intuitive, unified, personalized and efficient.”

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Noteworthy findings from the study include:

• In-Store Experience Lacks Luster: Despite a preference for physical stores by 73% of those surveyed, only 9% are satisfied with the in-store experience. Consumers surveyed want greater variety of products available (37%), more information about products (26%), and faster checkout (26%) in stores. Most consumers surveyed (65%) are supplementing their in-store experience by using mobile apps while shopping — demonstrating a trend toward a digitally integrated in-store experience.
• Online Shopping Shortcomings: Online retail isn’t immune to criticism; two-thirds of consumers surveyed discover new products via the web, yet many have expressed dissatisfaction with their online shopping journey, citing challenges finding the products they want (36%), not enough information about products (33%), and a cumbersome return process (33%).
• Consumers Desire Digital Integration: Consumers surveyed showed a strong interest in using AI technology to enhance various aspects of their shopping. Most consumers (59%) said they would like to use AI applications as they shop and 4 in 5 consumers who haven’t used the technology for shopping reported an interest in trying it. Personalization and targeted offerings are in demand, with 52% of consumers surveyed interested in receiving information, advertisements, and offerings from stores that are relevant to their specific interests. Yet there remains a stark satisfaction gap for current AI assistant users surveyed. Only about one-third of responding consumers who have used virtual assistants are satisfied with the experience and nearly 20% were so disappointed that they don’t want to use virtual assistants again, signaling a mismatch between current tech offerings and shopper expectations.
• Economic Forces at Play: Economic challenges, particularly inflation, are influencing shopping behaviors. Consumers surveyed are seeking flexible payment options, with 55% desiring more varied payment options and 46% reporting they would like to pay for their purchase in installments. As inflation and economic uncertainty pinch pocketbooks, 62% of consumers surveyed also say price is a top reason they would switch stores or brands.

Revolutionize retail with AI everywhere: Customers won’t wait underscores the urgent need for retailers to innovate and integrate advanced technologies, such as AI, to elevate the shopping experience. The study also serves as a resource for retailers, outlining actionable strategies to help these businesses meet changing consumer demands.

Connect with IBM at NRF 2024: Generative AI is taking center stage for IBM at NRF’24. Join us as we delve into how the technology is enhancing everything from customer engagement and personalization to operational efficiency. We’ll share innovative examples in marketing, supply chain management, and sustainability. IBM industry experts will be at Booth #5006. Stay updated via our NRF webpage. #NRF2024

*Study Methodology:
The IBM Institute for Business Value surveyed 20,000 consumers across 26 countries on their digital habits, their use of AI and generative AI, and their expectations for brands. Responses were analyzed by age group, income and purchasing habits across product categories.

The IBM Institute for Business Value, IBM’s thought leadership think tank, combines global research and performance data with expertise from industry thinkers and leading academics to deliver insights that make business leaders smarter. For more world-class thought leadership,

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Pacesetting SoC Products for Automotive, Data Center, and Smart Devices in the Smart Cities, IoT and Sustainability Zone, North Hall,
Booth 9971

Socionext, an innovative custom SoCs provider with a distinctive “Solution SoC” business model, will showcase its leading-edge technologies and products at CES 2024, Jan. 9-12.

Socionext will be at booth 9971 in the Smart Cities, IoT, and Sustainability Zone in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Among Socionext’s featured technologies and solutions will be the following:

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Custom SoCs
With extensive experience in custom SoC development, Socionext established a distinctive Solution SoC business model that provides SoCs that are both customized and fully optimized to our customers’ needs. The company offers the optimal combination of IPs, design expertise, software development, and support to implement large-scale SoCs to meet the most demanding and rigorous performance requirements in automotive, data center, and smart device applications.

With the Solution SoC model, Socionext delivers products and support that enable applications in the automotive segment, such as ADAS sensors, central computing, networking, in-cabin monitoring, satellite connectivity, and infotainment. In the data center segment, they enable high-performance compute, storage and networking applications. In the consumer space, they allow a range of smart devices, from earbuds to smart speakers and smart glasses to AR/VR headsets.

Low Power 60GHz Radar Sensor Solutions
The automotive-grade SC1260 series 60GHz RF CMOS sensor, which was nominated for awards at the Sensors Converge Show in Santa Clara in June 2023, can support multiple in-cabin use cases, including seat occupancy monitoring, child presence detection, and theft prevention.

The SC1240 series RF sensor for consumer applications allows users to easily enable multiple–person detection, gesture detection, and other high-precision sensing.

Socionext’s highly-integrated CMOS radar transceivers incorporate antennae-in-package and an embedded signal processing unit for distance, angle, and presence detection in a small form factor package without requiring radio frequency or advanced signal processing design skills.

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Smart Display Controller for Automotive
The Socionext’s SC172x is a highly integrated, ASIL-B conformant graphics display controller featuring built-in mechanisms to ensure safety-critical content is delivered in compliance with the standards required by today’s automotive display applications.

SoCs for Smart Devices
Socionext’s Solution SoC model enables high-performance SoC for video applications that features a best-in-class image signal processor with built-in low-light support, coupled with an AI acceleration engine and a high level of system integration. Built using an advanced, low power manufacturing process, the 8K processor can be customized through silicon, packaging, and software suitable for a wide variety of applications.

Creating a proprietary chip requires a complex, highly structured framework with a complete support system to address each phase of the development process.

Socionext’s “Solution SoC” business model embodies the company’s deep understanding of SoC architectures and technologies – including IP, EDA tools, packaging, quality control and manufacturing – as well as its ecosystem of suppliers that lets customers develop feature-rich custom SoCs while maintaining ownership of key differentiating technologies that can deliver significant competitive advantage.

With extensive experience in custom SoC development, Socionext uses state-of-the-art process technologies to produce SoCs optimized for customer requirements.

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One Network’s leading control tower deployed on its Digital Supply Chain Network to consolidate and reduce freight rates, reduce shipment handling and storage costs, and reduce manual processes

One Network Enterprises (ONE), the leading global provider of intelligent control towers and the Digital Supply Chain Network, is pleased to announce that ALDI International Buying Asia is live with ONE’s Intelligent Control Tower on the Digital Supply Chain Network. This helps ALDI improve its logistics operations by centralizing global shipping volume, increasing cost transparency, and improving its control over the movement of goods throughout the supply chain. This enables ALDI to develop a strategic ocean freight procurement strategy to manage their global shipments of goods better.

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ONE’s Intelligent Control Tower was chosen based on its range of functionality, combined planning and execution architecture, its embedded AI assistant, and its ability to deliver the highest quality services to ALDI. With the ONE Control Tower and NEO Platform, ALDI is integrating its global network of logistics partners and suppliers around a single data model at the core of ONE’s network of networks, enabling real-time collaboration across trading partners, workflows, and applications.

“We have selected the ONE Control Tower based on the depth of its capabilities and its ability to manage our freight end-to-end. We are confident that the solution can handle the complexities of our supply chain, starting with overall visibility and collaboration,” says Fritz Walleczek, Managing Director of ALDI International Buying Asia. “This will greatly improve effectiveness in collaborating with our suppliers and being more responsive to our customers.”

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“ALDI is a leading global business, and rare in combining great products at the lowest possible prices. I am very excited that ONE can add value to its operations with our Intelligent Control Tower and Digital Supply Chain Network. Collaboration through enhanced visibility and execution is how organizations like ALDI will increase competitiveness, particularly during challenging times,” said Greg Brady, Executive Chairman and Founder of One Network Enterprises. “We look forward to working with ALDI on their journey to even better customer service levels through a more effective, agile, and responsive supply network.”

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Amesite Inc., a leading artificial intelligence software company offering a cloud-based learning platform for business and education markets, announced that it will be collaborating with Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) to provide opportunities for teacher training on use of AI technology in a new contract.

The teacher training will focus on providing comprehensive instruction on use of AI. It will integrate teacher feedback, leveraging Amesite’s cutting-edge AI technology to enhance collaboration and communication.

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Dr. Ann Marie Sastry, CEO of Amesite, commented, “Amesite is proud to partner with SUSD to advance AI practices for teachers. Our cutting-edge solution will equip educators with vital AI skills, paving the way for nationwide adoption. This marks a significant step in our mission to innovate teaching and learning, and we’re ready to bring other districts on board as we scale up.”

Scott Menzel, Superintendent of Scottsdale Unified School District, also shared his thoughts on this partnership. “We are committed to making sure that our teachers have all of the support they need to deploy AI-enhanced methods safely and effectively. Piloting Amesite’s state-of-the-art AI platform will enable us to implement more dynamic and effective teaching methods. This work is a testament to our ongoing commitment to investing in our educators, who are the cornerstone of our students’ success.”

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Scottsdale Unified School District, serving over 22,000 students across 29 campuses, is a premier educational institution recognized for its innovative programs and commitment to academic excellence. This partnership with Amesite aims to set a new standard in educational training, further enriching the learning environment for both teachers and students alike.

Founded in 1896, SUSD has a long-standing tradition of educational excellence, adapting over the years to meet the evolving needs of its community. This partnership with Amesite is another step in its continuous pursuit of providing the best educational opportunities and outcomes.

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American Heart Association consortium advances development of evidence-based health tech solutions

UpDoc, a physician-led, AI-enabled chronic disease management company pioneering Remote Patient Intervention (RPI), has joined the American Heart Association Center for Health Technology & Innovation’s (the Center) Innovators’ Network. The Center is focused on building and fostering health technology relationships to develop innovative and scalable solutions.

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The Innovators’ Network is a consortium that connects entrepreneurs, providers, researchers and payers. Innovators’ Network members also have access to the Association’s digital guidelines, recommendations, and best-in-class science as they develop digital healthcare technologies. Members collaborate with the Center in different ways, including the building of models for clinical outcome studies, lowering the significant cost of developing those studies independently, helping connect the science to technology, and providing evidence that a digital platform improves healthcare outcomes – a key concern for providers and payers.

“The Center aims to advance the rapid, efficient, and effective development of healthcare technology,” said Robert A. Harrington, M.D., FAHA, volunteer past president of the American Heart Association (2019-2020), chair of the American Heart Association’s Health Tech Advisory Group for the Center and the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University. “It’s incredibly exciting to see UpDoc leveraging this consortium to broaden and deepen their engagement in this arena.”

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“UpDoc aims to deliver an AI provider to every patient’s home through an accessible technology that improves access to high quality, affordable care. Leveraging the AHA network for clinical guidance and expertise will empower our mission to pioneer Remote Patient Intervention, move the needle on outcomes, and expand access to safe and effective care. We are delighted to join this esteemed network and look forward to continued collaboration as we build the future of medicine together,” said Sharif Vakili UpDoc CEO.

UpDoc is a physician-led, AI-enabled chronic disease management company pioneering Remote Patient Intervention. The company employs state-of-the-art large language models optimized for clinical accuracy and patient engagement to create “AI encounters” that augment physician encounters.

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M55M1 Microcontroller With Secure On-Device AI Capabilities for Embedded Applications

Nuvoton is pleased to announce its new Endpoint AI Platform to accelerate the development of fully-featured microcontroller (MCU) AI products. These solutions are enabled by Nuvoton’s powerful new MCU and MPU silicon, including the NuMicro® M55M1 equipped with Ethos U55 NPU, NuMicro® MA35D1, and NuMicro® M467 series. These MCUs are a valuable addition to the modern AI-centric computing toolkit and demonstrate how Nuvoton continues to work closely with Arm and other companies to develop a user-friendly and complete Endpoint AI Ecosystem.

Development on these platforms is made easy by Nuvoton’s NuEdgeWise: a well-rounded, simple-to-adopt tool for machine learning (ML) development, which is nonetheless suitable for cutting-edge tasks. Together, this powerful core hardware, combined with unique rich development tools, cements Nuvoton’s reputation as a leading microcontroller platform provider.

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These new single-chip-based platforms are ideal for applications including smart home appliances and security, smart city services, industry, agriculture, entertainment, environmental protection, education, highly accurate voice-control tasks, and sports, health, and fitness.

New ML-Focused Hardware With NPU: NuMicro M55M1

The NuMicro M55M1 series microcontroller is targeted at machine learning applications, aided by its Ethos-U55 NPU (Neural Processing Unit) and on-device AI features suitable for embedded applications. This MCU lets the system watch for events – based on image sensor, microphone, and sensors – while in low-power mode, without waking up the central processor. The M55M1 MCU includes an ML model protection mechanism that enhances security by safeguarding ML intellectual property against potential malicious hacking attempts. These are some of the first processors to support Arm Helium technology, which provides a significant performance boost for machine learning (ML) and digital signal processing (DSP) applications in small, low-power embedded systems.

Edge IIoT Gateway Solution: NuMicro MA35D1

The MA35D1 series is a heterogeneous multi-core microprocessor for high-end Edge IIoT Gateway, based on a dual-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A35 core at 800 MHz and a 180 MHz Arm Cortex-M4. These high-performance cores facilitate Tiny AI/ML edge computing.

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The Versatile M467, With IoT Applications and Great Connectivity

The M467 series is a 32-bit microcontroller based on the Arm Cortex-M4F core with a built-in DSP instruction set and single precision floating point unit (FPU). It is ideal for a wide range of applications: smart home appliances, IoT gateways, industrial control, telecommunications, and data centers.

In IoT tasks, the M467 can be enhanced with a rich set of connectivity, I/O, and security peripherals, from Ethernet 10/100 MAC to hardware encryption, decryption, and key storage. With the M467’s broad built-in I/O support, users can choose only the precise hardware extensions they need for their particular applications. The M467 also supports HyperRAM. In AI/ML applications, the 64MB of HyperRAM provides the flexibility to handle different ML models with varying memory size or density requirements. HyperRAM also offers power-saving, suitability for available bandwidth, ease of use, and flexible expansion of memory options.

Strong Development Support

Fully-featured development boards are available for all of the above hardware applications. These are supported by Nuvoton’s deep development tools, development environment, and enthusiastic support. For example, AI application development with NuMaker MA35D1 not only enables efficient machine learning projects, such as image classification but also presents analysis to the user intuitively via the Human Machine Interface (HMI). Meanwhile, the NuMaker-IoT-M467 development board is specifically designed for IoT applications of the M467 MCU.

NuEdgeWise ML IDE Makes TinyML Development Simple

Nuvoton’s NuEdgeWise IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is a machine-learning tool designed for TinyML development. The IDE supports the four key stages of ML application development: labeling, training, validation, and testing. NuEdgeWise leverages the popular Jupyter Notebook platform, allowing developers to train and deploy models on Nuvoton chips using TensorFlow Lite. This makes TinyML applications more accessible and easier to implement.

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The Gemini 2 XL is made for AI-based vision developers looking for an affordable, wide FOV RGB-D PoE camera with high-performance over a long range and varied lighting condition

Orbbec, an industry leader dedicated to 3D vision systems, announced the launch of the Gemini 2 XL at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Ideal as the primary visual system for a variety of robots and numerous AI-based video analytics and interaction systems, the Gemini 2 XL is a long-range, 3D camera that delivers accurate and reliable data in various lighting conditions from pitch black to outdoors.

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Orbbec’s mission is to make 3D vision accessible and the Gemini 2 XL will enable robot designers to access premium visual information at a fraction of the cost of current solutions.

The newly released camera unit is easy to set up and operate with the Orbbec SDK and features:

• Superior RGB-D Quality: Providing data suitable for a wide range of demanding AI-driven recognition and tracking applications that require detection of small objects and while excelling in high-reflectivity environments. The deeplearning algorithms can generate a complete phase map around small objects and fixtures by overcoming challenges faced by traditional algorithms due to shadow, speckle pattern size, illumination condition, etc.
• Minimal Environmental Light Impact: Offers exceptional performance in various lighting conditions, including direct sunlight and outdoor environments. Conventional algorithms struggle to calculate depth/phase in environmental conditions with highly reflective surfaces, direct sunlight, low visibility, sharp shape-cased shadows, small texture-caused shadow, etc. to calculate the depth/phase which results in a spotted image with missing depth areas. Orbbec’s AI algorithms create a solid complete phase map output even under these challenging conditions.
• No Need for Costly Vision Processors: While similar cameras in the market are either very expensive or require costly external computing power, the high-performance Gemini 2 XL provides engineers with a cost-efficient, high-accuracy option.

“We are excited to demonstrate the superior capabilities of Gemini 2 XL at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show,” said David Chen, Co-Founder and Head of Products at Orbbec. “As Orbbec’s learning library continues to expand, the camera’s capabilities will continue to improve, broadening their applicability in robotics and AI-based vision solutions.”

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ODM services: Smarter automation needs intelligent robots with reliable, yet affordable depth perception. Orbbec is dedicated to 3D vision and customers interested in custom solutions to meet their specific application needs can leverage Orbbec’s expertise in R&D, in-house manufacturing and supply chain.

• With the NVIDIA Jetson platform: The Gemini 2 XL, when paired directly with the powerful NVIDIA Jetson Orin system-on-modules instead of the OBox, allows for additional image processing resulting in further improvement in the depth frame rate, accuracy, and scene versatility. This optimized deeplearning pipeline and camera calibration service will be offered only as part of Orbbec’s ODM package.
• Customizable, Scene-Specific Algorithms: Support for customization of the AI depth output and the ability for customers to re-train the model with their own data sets to achieve better performance under their specific application environment will be available only through Orbbec’s ODM services engagement.

Robotics developers, enthusiasts and media interested in checking out the Gemini 2 XL are invited to come by Orbbec’s CES booth at the Las Vegas Convention and World Trade Center (LVCC), North Hall, 9745.

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imo’s new Passkeys function leads the path for secured, safe and seamless communication 

Popular instant communication platform, imo, has recently launched Passkeys, enabling password-less login through biometrics. Powered by robust asymmetric cryptography technology, the function also reduces credential theft, ushering in a new standard of seamless authentication that delivers the optimal balance of security, privacy and convenience that users demand.

With Passkeys, users can conveniently unlock their imo account using their face, fingerprint, or PIN during login. This biometric data is not sent to imo to safeguard users’ privacy. imo’s state-of-the-art asymmetric cryptography safeguards users against password theft by malicious websites. Using fingerprints and facial recognition to verify a user’s identity eliminates the need to remember passwords and undergo the cumbersome secondary authentication process through SMS, especially across borders. These features create a seamless and highly secure login that improves the sign-in experience for imo’s global user base.

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Passkeys signifies a major upgrade to account security and access. Leading platforms like WhatsApp and TikTok have also implemented the technology in moves beyond vulnerable password-based systems and tedious SMS-based two-factor authentication. imo joins this shift toward more robust login security.

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As global communication advances, security concerns remain paramount. imo remains committed to developing innovative solutions for seamless, private messaging between global users. Passkeys represent the next generation of login technology, and imo is proud to be driving this new standard for its expanding global user base.

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Support for OpenUSD and Integration of Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors within NVIDIA DRIVE Sim, powered by NVIDIA Omniverse, improves development and validation of AV perception systems

Ansys announced that Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors will be accessible within NVIDIA DRIVE Sim, a scenario-based AV simulator powered by NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform for developing Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) applications for industrial digitalization. The integration will provide users access to high-fidelity sensor simulation outputs generated with Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors for the training and validation of perception ADAS/AV systems.

Ensuring AV safety and reliability is among the most significant challenges engineers face today. Sensor suites and software must be extensively tested and validated in real-world driving scenarios — including critical edge cases — to safely navigate roadways. The scale of this challenge is too large for physical on-road testing alone, which would require an estimated billions of miles. The future of AVs depends on highly realistic, scalable simulations to test and validate AV sensor and software performance in a controlled virtual environment.

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The combined strengths of NVIDIA and Ansys narrow the gap between reality and simulation. Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors will augment NVIDIA DRIVE Sim’s high-fidelity, scalable 3D environments for scenario generation with Ansys’ predictively accurate physics solvers for camera, lidar, and radar sensors. By harnessing the power of this integrated solution, NVIDIA DRIVE Sim users with an AVxcelerate Sensors license will be able to develop, train, test, and validate the performance of AV perception systems while saving time and cost. The platform harnesses NVIDIA’s high-performance GPU capabilities and AI, powering rapid prototyping and efficient algorithm refinement of AVs.

“Integrating Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors simulation with DRIVE Sim offers developers greater flexibility to develop, test, and validate their autonomous vehicle software,” said Zvi Greenstein, vice president of autonomous vehicle infrastructure at NVIDIA.

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An open ecosystem approach is foundational to collaboration. NVIDIA Omniverse enables users to develop OpenUSD-based 3D workflows. OpenUSD’s flexibility and modularity allows developers to not only build scalable simulations but also acts as a data factory for AI model training. Developers can harness Omniverse to build their custom synthetic data generation pipelines and generate annotated data to train the on-board computer vision models. The connection with Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors, built with application programming interfaces (APIs), facilitates a seamless integration of Ansys physics solvers into NVIDIA’s 3D virtual world.

“Perception is crucial for AV systems, and it requires validation through real-world data for the AI to make smart, safe decisions,” said Walt Hearn, senior vice president of worldwide sales and customer excellence at Ansys. “Combining Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors with NVIDIA DRIVE Sim, powered by Omniverse, provides a rich playground for developers to test and validate critical environmental interactions without limitations, paving the way for OEMs to accelerate AV technology development.”

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