Automotive industry eyes open source

The Eclipse Foundation has created an open source initiative to implement a standard platform for software development tools used in the automotive industry, reports CBR Online.

The foundation hopes the initiative will innovate software development tools to accelerate product development and improve integration across the automotive supply chain.

Advance Engineering senior expert Harald Mackamul says: “Collaborating with an open source community will allow us to share the costs and best practices for building new tools with other companies in the automotive industry. We see this open innovation as the future for our software tools strategy.”

As the supply chain for the automotive business becomes more complex, the members of the working group feel that there is a need for a standard platform that can be used throughout that supply chain, explains The H.

BMW uses standards such as Automotive Open System Architecture, FlexRay and GENIVI in building their vehicles and they need a tool chain which can support all these standards.

TMCnet says the latest Eclipse project, Indigo, is available through Genuitec's Pulse platform.

Pulse has over 1.5 million users worldwide and is the standard platform for Eclipse developers to download and share their workspace profiles - whether developing cloud, desktop or mobile applications.