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From seatbelts and antilock brakes to airbags and electronic stability control, the automotive industry has introduced numerous safety innovations over the decades to reduce accidents and save lives.
With vehicles becoming more connected and automated, the concept of safety is now expanding beyond physical safeguards to include digital protections. After all, a car that is vulnerable to hacking can potentially be compromised, posing significant risks to drivers, passengers, and others on the road.
As a result, data security is becoming an increasingly critical component of automotive safety.
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The evolution of connected and automated vehicles
Modern vehicles are equipped with a vast array of digital components — including driver assistance systems, mechanical control units, environmental sensors, connectivity modules, and infotainment units — and some contain more than 100 million lines of code.
All of these components and the software within them must work in concert to deliver optimal vehicle performance, user experience, and safety. This requires dramatically higher bandwidth and lower latency data transfer than legacy communication protocols can deliver.
Fortunately, newer technology standards like Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) are being widely adopted by automotive manufacturers and their technology suppliers. Supporting data transport for high-resolution sensing, heterogeneous computing, and 360-degree vehicle perception, PCIe has become an important enabler in the evolution of connected and automated vehicles.
As with any advanced technology, security must be built into — and not bolted onto — PCIe-based systems and components. And that requires standard-compliant tools and IP that can be leveraged in the earliest stages of design and development.
The world’s first automotive-grade PCIe 5.0 IP solution with IDE security
As a leader in silicon-to-systems design, Synopsys offers a comprehensive suite of PCIe controllers, security modules, physical layer devices (PHYs), and verification IP. And we recently introduced the world’s first automotive-grade PCIe 5.0 IP solution with Integrity and Data Encryption (IDE) security.
The solution is tailored to meet the stringent requirements of ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434 standards:
- ISO 26262 focuses on the functional safety of electrical and electronic systems in production automobiles. This standard is critical for addressing potential hazards that could arise from the malfunctioning of these systems, helping ensure the safety of both drivers and passengers.
- ISO/SAE 21434 is focused on the cybersecurity of road vehicles. This standard offers a comprehensive framework for managing cybersecurity risks throughout a vehicle’s lifecycle, from design and development to production, operation, and decommissioning.
As part of our automotive-grade PCIe 5.0 IP solution, IDE security modules provide confidentiality, integrity, and replay protection for Transaction Layer Packets (TLP). In doing so, they ensure data remains secure and unaltered during transit by leveraging optimized AES-GCM cryptographic cores with 256-bit keys. This high level of security is crucial for performance-intensive automotive applications, ensuring data on the wire is secure from observation, tampering, and replay attacks.
Setting new benchmarks for auto safety and cybersecurity
With more than two decades of experience enabling PCIe designs and dozens of customers using our automotive-grade controllers, Synopsys provides the industry’s most robust IP solutions for the world’s most advanced vehicles. What’s more, our PCIe 5.0 IDE automotive solution has set new benchmarks for functional safety and cybersecurity by complying with ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434 standards.
This advanced solution helps automotive manufacturers and their technology suppliers accelerate design cycles and time-to-market. More importantly, it helps deliver the highest levels of security and safety as vehicles become more connected and automated.
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