Harman Automotive has launched two new products to meet the needs of the growing software and electronics market: Ready CQuence Loop and Ready Link Marketplace. Both are designed to help car manufacturers, suppliers and developers accelerate the development cycles for automotive software, enhance in-vehicle products and open up new revenue sources.
Ready CQuence Loop is a software-defined-vehicle (SDV) toolchain that increases developer productivity, enabling faster deployment of new vehicle features, through the provision of a virtual environment. Ready CQuence Loop provides automotive manufacturers with a central entry point for developing and testing software stacks for vehicles, while Harman manages the infrastructure. Harman states that development and validation costs will be lower with Ready CQuence Loop, and that it provides APIs that enable third-party providers to extend Ready CQuence Loop with their toolchain-related workloads.
“Today’s tools for developing and testing automotive software are not aligned with modern software development practices,” said Daniel Lueddecke, senior director and Ready CQuence Loop product lead at Harman.
Ready Link Marketplace is a new in-vehicle experience with cloud services. It is a unified digital trading platform that connects auto makers, developers and users. It enables car manufacturers to offer tailor-made apps, services and vehicle features. Harman says this unified digital trading platform can offer industry-leading content with simplified integration and control while also opening up monetization possibilities.
Heiko Huettel, vice president of Software Products at Harman, said, “Software is changing everything about the way vehicles are built and experienced. With Ready CQuence Loop and Ready Link Marketplace, we want to make this change meaningful for developers, auto makers and consumers by focusing on the essentials – making it easier to deliver and receive better in-vehicle experiences for everyone.”