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BUDAPEST, Hungary, March 24, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

  -- Platform agnostic solution for automotive sensor simulation

AImotive, the largest independent team working on automated driving

technologies in Europe, today announced it has integrated the Khronos(R)

Group's Vulkan(R) API to improve raytracing performance in aiSim 3.0.

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The world's first ISO26262 certified, automotive-grade open simulator tool for

automated driving development, aiSim, is designed to accurately and efficiently

simulate all major sensor modalities required for automated driving. The next

generation of the simulator, aiSim 3.0 will launch in April 2021.

aiSim can provide the highest coverage for various hardware platforms by

utilizing the industry standard Vulkan API. Use of the recent Vulkan Ray

Tracing extension improves simulation performance by efficiently distributing

rendering tasks to available GPU ray tracing hardware. It also enables creation

of the next level of physically realistic input for the sensors, including

cameras, LiDAR, and radar through the correct simulation of lights, weather

within a holistic environment.

Thanks to efficient data sharing and streaming, aiSim enables real-time

simulation for HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop), even for the most complex sensor

setups.

"AImotive is committed to open standards that allow our customers and the

entire industry to use all suitable components at the lowest cost without

compromising on performance. By using Vulkan Ray Tracing, aiSim can provide

more realistic automotive simulation than ever in real time and accelerate the

further development and testing of automated driving systems." - said László

Kishonti, CEO and Founder of AImotive.

"Vulkan provides explicit control over GPU acceleration so that sophisticated

developers such as aiSim can unlock the full potential of underlying platforms

for their customers that demand high performance and visual realism. As an open

standard, Vulkan Ray Tracing has now unlocked a real-time rendering technology

previously only available in expensive cinematic visual effects on low-cost

workstations and personal computers from multiple manufacturers. The accuracy

and physical correctness of ray tracing is particularly well suited to

simulation environments, and we are pleased to see professional automotive

applications using this new Vulkan capability alongside gaming." - said Neil

Trevett, Khronos President.

About AImotive: AImotive is one of the largest independent teams in the world

working on automated driving technologies and the most-funded European company

in the field. Developing self-driving software, proprietary simulation tools

and neural network acceleration hardware IP, we are building an ecosystem that

aids the deployment of automated driving. We create scalable, modular and

hardware agnostic products to catalyse industry collaboration and bring

life-saving technologies to drivers around the world quickly. Our team's deep

understanding of artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and real-world

automated driving workloads is further strengthened by data gathered from our

global test fleet. Our many years' experience in 3D graphics and optimization

for a wide range of hardware platforms enables us to deliver the highest

performance software solutions in automotive software as well as local and

cloud-based scalable simulation. Learn more at www.aimotive.com

About The Khronos Group: The Khronos Group (

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) is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium of over 150 industry-leading

companies creating advanced, royalty-free, interoperability standards for 3D

graphics, augmented and virtual reality, and parallel programming including the

new-geneation Vulkan GPU API. Khronos members drive the development and

evolution of Khronos specifications and are able to accelerate the delivery of

cutting-edge platforms and applications through early access to specification

drafts and conformance tests.

Khronos(R) and Vulkan(R) are registered trademarks of The Khronos Group Inc.

Media contact:

Bence Boda

Communications Manager

+36301828085

bence.boda@aimotive.com

SOURCE: AImotive