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BASEMARK LAUNCHES ROCKSOLID CORE AS OS FOR SOFTWARE-DEFINED CARS

Dean Takahashi@deantak
September 6, 2021 10:00 PM
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Basemark is launching a new operating system for smart cars.
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Basemark, a maker of graphics and autonomous car software, has revealed its new
operating system for “software-defined vehicles,” dubbed Rocksolid Core.

Rocksolid Core is a licensable end-to-end solution for all car applications that
incorporates underlying operating systems, such as automotive-grade Linux,
Autosar Classic, and Autosar Adaptive. Rocksolid Core also includes reference
applications for human machine interface (HMI), advanced driver assistance
systems (ADAS), and autonomous drive applications.

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Finland-based Basemark built Rocksolid as a middleware for graphics and compute
application development. Automakers have used it to create fancy infotainment
dashboards for drivers. It’s optimized for embedded and mission-critical
applications, such as autonomous drive, ADAS, and digital instrument clusters.

Basemark CEO Tero Sarkkinen said the company is enabling the future of cars,
making it easier to create new car systems while reducing the cost of car
computers considerably. Basemark says its Rocksolid Core uses fewer processors
than conventional models, resulting in savings in both electronics and software.

“Rocksolid Core is the base for even the most advanced autonomous driving
vehicles,” said Sarkkinen in an email to VentureBeat. “It’s not only an OS, but
also an advanced new software and hardware architecture as well. This design
reduces the amount of processors needed and hence greatly reduces the bill of
materials cost in mass production.”

He said the company estimates a savings of $220 per call when compared to the
architecture published by Volkswagen. This savings is a huge boon for any car
maker, said Sarkkinen.

“The other benefit from the new architecture is that we can visualize data from
all car sensors,” he said. “We can make heads up displays much cooler by fusing
data from maps, from front radar, and others. This way, the display could
eventually make a realistic rendering of the road and environment ahead and
highlight a deer lurking in bushes as it could be detected by heat sensing
camera.”

Rocksolid Core’s secret sauce is Basemark’s compute and graphics middleware that
enables car makers to author their applications independently of the target
hardware. This means that if a car maker chooses Nvidia or Qualcomm chips, they
don’t have to resort to coding using Nvidia or Qualcomm proprietary software
kits.

“Our graphics and compute libraries are able to harness the various accelerators
found on those system-on-chips (SoCs) and distribute workload to those
accelerators in an optimal way and it enables OEMs to become a little more
independent of any particular SoC company,” Sarkkinen said.

Basemark has been working on the tech involved for around six years, and it
expanded the scope of the OS this year.

The company isn’t talking about customers yet, but Sarkkinen said the company
will demo it on real roads this year. To date, Basemark has raised $10 million.


OVERVIEW

The first prototype of Rocksolid Core will be launched this fall in the form of
a proof-of-concept vehicle. Basemark will take part in the IAA Conference in
Munchen from September 6 to September 12.

I’ve followed Sarkkinen’s career for a while now, and I had a cup of fine coffee
with Sarkkinen in a cafe in Helsinki on the icy shore of the Gulf of Finland
during one of the Slush events in 2013. A gamer and serial entrepreneur, he
helped create benchmarks such as 3D Mark for PC games at Futuremark. He also
started Rightware to make tools for developers looking to create visual user
interfaces for cars. This was at a time when the auto industry was finally
catching up with the computer era and getting better displays for dashboard
information.

He sold Futuremark to United Laboratories in 2015 and two years later sold
Rightware to Thundersoft. Sarkkinen and Arto Ruotsalainen started Basemark in
2015 to handle big data visualization for industrial markets. Then they bought
Rightware’s benchmark business unit and began to focus on building tools for
developers creating autonomous driving software. In 2016, the company developed
a benchmark dubbed VRScore for virtual reality software, and in 2018 Basemark
moved into autonomous driving software. Basemark has 70 employees in Finland,
Germany, and the U.S. and raised $7.9 million in 2020.


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