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RTI Connext Drive

The leading production-grade, safety-certified communications framework for software-defined vehicles.

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Intelligent Communication Framework from Prototype to Production

Designed to support the development of today's autonomous and software-defined vehicles, RTI Connext Drive is a communication framework that minimizes overall system complexity and cost, while building a future-proof, evolving system that doesn't compromise performance. It includes direct integration into AUTOSAR Classic and Adaptive plus ROS 2 environments ensuring functional safety at the ECUs to zonal gateways, high-performance compute and digital cockpit, thanks to a modular footprint optimized for each architectural component.

Automakers looking to streamline development and fast-track success through an open architecture are increasingly turning to Connext Drive to slash development time and reduce the need for proprietary programming.

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Safety-Certified

Connext Drive is TÜV SÜD-certified to ASIL D to meet the Safety Lifecycle requirements set forth by ISO 26262. Connext Drive includes all the necessary Safety artifacts and Safety Manual, which can significantly reduce Functional Safety Lifecycle efforts for system integrators.

Interoperable

Included with Connext Drive, the RTI Connext Integration Toolkit for AUTOSAR Classic:

  • Speeds development through automatic conversion of data type definitions across standard formats (OMG® IDL, OMG DDS-XML and AUTOSAR ARXML) and
  • Generates C code for data conversion and marshaling between the runtime environment (RTE) and DDSTM communication frameworks.

The DDS standard is included in the AUTOSAR Adaptive specification, enabling OEMs to meet the demanding requirements of High Performance Computing (HPC).

Included with Connext Drive, the RTI Connext Integration Toolkit for AUTOSAR Adaptive provides a code generator for application-specific DDS Network Binding assets plus a library implementing the AUTOSAR Communications Management DDS Network Binding.

With Connext Drive, developers can:

  • Leverage additional technologies outside the AUTOSAR specification,
  • Gain a simple integration path to other distributed systems, and
  • Provide a path to future-proofing current investments.

RTI supports ROS 2 environments through the RTI Connext Integration Toolkit for ROS 2.

With this toolkit, developers can to take full advantage of Connext Drive to quickly resolve problems of scalability, performance and operation in the most demanding environments, while retaining the use of familiar ROS 2 tools and packages.

 

RTI Connext Drive

To help automakers streamline their go-to-market journey, Connext Drive delivers the leading safety-certified, data-centric communications framework for SDVs.

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RTI Connext Drive Datasheet

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Interactive Use Cases

Learn how Connext Drive works to solve your latest connected car challenge.

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Connext Drive User Experiences

The integration of BlackBerry QNX's safety-certified operating system with RTI’s data-centric connectivity framework provides a solid foundation on which to base software development for connected and autonomous vehicles. Partnerships like this enable our customers to architect and realize next generation distributed systems.
Grant Courville, Vice President, Products and Strategy
BlackBerry QNX
Baidu is developing solutions for autonomous valet parking, fully autonomous mini-buses and more, based on Apollo, a leading global autonomous vehicle technology platform. The reason we decided to work with RTI's technology as the connectivity framework was for its superior reliability, a critical factor in the development of autonomous driving. With Connext, we can guarantee the utilization of bandwidth with TCP + UDP, ensure flexibility through multiple QoS strategies and apply standards-based security and safety. We are looking forward to accelerating innovation in autonomous driving together with RTI.
Dounan Wei, Commercialization Manager
Baidu Intelligent Vehicle Business Unit
We specialize in providing vehicle-agnostic driverless software for urban environments. Our target applications include autonomous transportation around hotels, theme parks, commercial offices, retirement communities and more. We selected RTI’s connectivity software because it provides the high performance we require, while giving us the flexibility we need to customize our technology per application. With RTI’s technical expertise, 15 years of proven industry experience and market-leading technology, we’re able to deliver safe, autonomous solutions across the Asia-Pacific region.
Derrick Loh, CEO
Moovita
 

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Connext Drive offers a flexible, standard-based architecture that can help future-proof your software-defined vehicle development.

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Simple & Fair Pricing

RTI provides customers building vehicles with a simple licensing model and affordable annual subscription pricing.

Commercial Licenses

Pricing is adapted to the phase of the project. Connext Drive licensing provides dedicated licenses for the initial reference platform and prototype phases as well as final production program development.

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