Common Adaptive Platform Implementation
The Collaborative Foundation for Software-Defined Vehicles
Accelerate SDV development with an automotive-grade, certification-ready code implementation of the AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform. Stop reinventing the wheel. Start building the future.
Build on the Standard: Faster, Safer, and Smarter
Accelerate Time-to-Market
Move from specification to implementation in record time. By providing a pre-built, automotive-grade foundation, CAPI eliminates the need to develop complex middleware components from scratch. Your teams can immediately focuson integrating and building differentiated features, drastically cutting development cycles and accelerating your path to production.
Reduce Development Costs & Complexity
Pool resources, not duplicate efforts. CAPI embodies AUTOSAR's core principle of collaborative innovation. By sharing the burden of developing and maintaining the non-differentiating base platform, the entire industry avoids costly redundancy. This collective effort significantly lowers R&D costs, mitigates risk, and simplifies supply chain integration.
Ensure Automotive-Grade Quality & Security
Build on a foundation of trust, backed by two decades of standardization excellence. CAPI engineered with the full rigor of the AUTOSAR partnership, designed for functional safety (ISO 26262) and cybersecurity (ISO/SAE 21434) from the ground up. It provides a robust and certification-ready base for your most critical vehicle functions.
Guarantee Standard Compliance & Interoperability
Achieve native AUTOSAR compliance and avoid vendor lock-in. CAPI is the harmonized implementation of the AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform standard, ensuring seamless interoperability between software components from different suppliers. This provides a future-proof architecture evolving with the specifications that the industry trusts for safety and cybersecurity, ensuring long-term viability and simplified certification.
Foster Ecosystem Innovation
Unleash your R&D on what makes your brand unique. By relying on a common, trusted core for foundationalmiddleware components, OEMs and suppliers can redirect their brightest minds and largest budgets away from reinventing the wheel. Accelerate the creation of innovative user experiences, advanced features, and new business models that define the future of driving.
From Blueprint to Foundation: The AUTOSAR Evolution
CAPI represents the natural evolution of AUTOSAR's mission: from defining standards to delivering their implementation. The AUTOSAR Common Adaptive Platform Implementation (CAPI) is a strategic, code-first initiative by the global AUTOSAR community to provide a standardized, automotive-grade implementation of the AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform standard.
While the AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform standard provides the essential specifications – the “what” – CAPI delivers the tangible, high-quality source code that brings it to life – the “how”. Developed collaboratively by and for AUTOSAR partners, it creates a common foundation that eliminates redundant development of non-differentiating middleware components across the industry.
CAPI embodies AUTOSAR's commitment to accelerating the SDV of the future while maintaining the rigorous quality, safety and cybersecurity standards the automotive industry depends on.
Think of the relationship between the Adaptive Platform standard and CAPI as the evolution from architectural blueprint to pre-fabricated foundation.
CAPI enforces AUTOSAR specifications through code-first advantages and quarterly releases of automotive-grade code. This creates a continuous feedback loop where:
- Implementation informs specification through real-world validation
- Development happens in parallel across the ecosystem
- Quality is built-in through collaborative development and testing
- Innovation accelerates as the foundation stabilizes and improves
This is not a replacement for the AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform standard, but its natural evolution – combining the stability of consensus-driven standards with the velocity of modern software development.
A Foundation for the Entire SDV Ecosystem
Realizing the full potential of the SDV is a collective effort for all stakeholders in the entire SDV ecosystem. CAPI serves as the common ground, providing specific value to every key player in the value chain.
Decision Makers at OEM/Tier1
Challenge: "We need to accelerate our SDV programs to market while managing unprecedented software complexity, effort, and risk."
Value Proposition: CAPI provides a strategic, pre-competitive foundation that de-risks development. It eliminates the need to build and maintain non-differentiating complex middleware components in-house.
Outcome: Accelerate time-to-market and reduce R&D costs by building on a proven, automotive-grade codebase, allowing you to reallocate resources to brand-defining features.
Developers & Technical Leads
Challenge: "We spend too much time implementing and integrating non-differentiating middleware components instead of building innovative applications."
Value Proposition: Start immediately with certification-ready source code harmonized to industry proven standards. CAPI's "code-first" approach and robust APIs let you focus on creating value from day one.
Outcome: Move from pure implementation to innovation. Drastically shorten development cycles and focus your talents on creating competitive advantages and unique user experiences.
Safety & Security Engineers
Challenge: "Proving the safety and cybersecurity of a complex, evolving software stack for certification is a massive and time-consuming undertaking."
Value Proposition: Build on a foundation designed for ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434 compliance. CAPI is engineered with functional safety and cybersecurity as core tenets, providing a certification-ready base.
Outcome: Streamline your safety case and certification process. Reduce the burden of evidence for foundational middleware components and accelerate time to certification.
Software Architects & Product Managers
Challenge: "We need a scalable, future-proof software architecture that enables new business models like feature-on-demand and rapid iteration."
Value Proposition: CAPI implements the standardized, high-performance AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform, providing a dynamic service-oriented architecture that is the industry benchmark for SDVs.
Outcome: Develop a vehicle software platform that is designed from the ground up for new features, over-the-air updates, and long-term development, reducing architectural debt.
Procurement & Supply Chain Managers
Challenge: "Managing software sourcing from multiple suppliers leads to integration nightmares, vendor lock-in, and spiraling costs."
Value Proposition: CAPI guarantees native AUTOSAR standard compliance, enabling seamless interoperability between software components from different suppliers.
Outcome: Simplify your supply chain, increase supplier choice, and avoid costly vendor lock-in. Achieve greater leverage and reduce integration costs.
Partners of the SDV Ecosystem
Challenge: "How do we ensure our complementary solutions and building blocks work together seamlessly in a unified SDV stack?"
Value Proposition: CAPI acts as the interoperable, automotive-grade base layer, designed for collaboration. It provides certification-ready middleware components with a focus on functional safety and cybersecurity for a common foundation that ensures all pieces fit together.
Outcome: There's no need to reinvent the wheel. Accelerate collective innovation by ensuring technical alignment and interoperability across the ecosystem and creating a complete and functional SDV stack for the industry based on established assets.
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