Automakers are putting extensive effort to keep pace with the ever increasing demand of high end IVI systems. After experiencing astonishing features like intuitive touch-screen, rich multimedia capabilities, navigation and Internet connectivity on their consumer durable and portable devices, Car buyers expect their automotive infotainment systems to provide similar features / experiences. To fulfil these growing demands, car manufacturers need an IVI software platform which can deliver aforesaid features.

SpectraCore’s IVI Platform caters to all these requirements and provides outstanding user-experience for infotainment with seamless integration with vehicle information bus (CANBUS, MOST) and cloud services accessed over high speed LTE network. Users can access the cloud hosted media content seamlessly on the move. The unique plugin based architecture and on-demand data services with inbuilt security system makes it a robust, extensible, next-generation IVI software platform. This platform delivers smart-navigation, advanced sensor-integration, local / web-hosted multimedia playback with cloud-services integration. This stack differs from existing IVI platforms with its unique features like “designed to be secure”, “designed to be integrated with cloud-services”, “extensible, using secure plugin based interface”, “scalable web-services” and all based on open-standard based framework and technologies.

Operating-system platform for the device and the server are designed and developed with following design goals

• Conformance to open-standard based specifications and technologies
• Native support for SOA and integration with cloud-services
• Open, scale-able, extensible software architecture for device & server platform
• Support for all major content format and plugin architecture for future extensions
• Highly responsive, intuitive UX
• Designed for security
• Designed for speed and performance

Open architecture : Designed with all open-standard based software-stacks and specifications

“Device specific” operating-system platform tightly integrated with cloud-services platform

Plugin based integration with Gapps and AWS

• Highly responsive, intuitive UX
• OpenGL application UX implementation
• Content rendering using webkit

Designed for security

• Policy based, process level security implementation
• Strict DRM implementation using dual-key cryptography
• File-system level backup/restore. (file-system level FOTA)

Designed for speed / performance

• Rapid boot
• File-system level native search and indexing
• Real-time scheduling in device implementation
• Advanced load balancing for responsive server

• Hardware :
  • Qualcomm (Snapdragon) MPQ8064, Adreno 320 GPU, Intel SandyBridge, Intel HD graphics (Open GL 2), WiFi, Gigabit LAN, Bluetooth, LTE, SATA, SSD
• Video formats :
  • MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.263, MPEG-4 SP and ASP, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, RealVideo, RMVB, Sorenson, WMV, Cinepak, AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, FLV, MKV/MKA (Matroska), QuickTime, MP4, M4A, AAC, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia RAM/RM/RV/RA/RMVB, 3gp, VIVO, PVA, NUV, NSV, NSA, FLI, FLC, DVR-MS and WTV
• Audio formats :

  • MIDI, AIFF, WAV/WAVE, AIFF, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus (AAC+), Vorbis, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey’s Audio (APE), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC/Musepack/Mpeg+, Shorten, Speex, WMA, IT, S3M, MOD (Amiga Module), XM, NSF (NES Sound Format), SPC (SNES), GYM (Genesis), SID (Commodore 64), Adlib, YM (Atari ST), ADPCM (Nintendo GameCube), and CDDA

• Physical digital media :
  • Blu-ray Disc (unencrypted), CDs, DVDs, DVD-Video, Video CDs (including VCD/SVCD/XVCD), Audio-CD (CDDA), USB Flash Drives, and local Hard Disk Drives

• Internet Content & Services Plugins :

  • Podcast, Internet TV, Flickr, Picasa, Weather, Stock Quotes, RSS Feeds, Youtube