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High Performance and Reliability! Black Sesame Receives DEKRA’s Global First ASPICE CL2 Certificate
Mr. Weihong Liu (left), Co-founder and COO of Black Sesame, and Mr. Gerhard Rieger (right), Senior Vice President of DEKRA DIGITAL Global Functional Safety
Recently, DEKRA granted its global first ASPICE CL2 certificate to Black Sesame Technologies (“Black Sesame”), a leading provider of autonomous driving computing chip, specializing in advanced R&D of high computing power chips and platforms. With DEKRA ASPICE CL2 approval, Black Sesame has become one of the first vehicle-regulation-level product suppliers for autonomous driving computing chip and platform R&D.
Mr. Weihong Liu, Co-founder and COO of Black Sesame, and Mr. Gerhard Rieger, Senior Vice President of DEKRA DIGITAL Global Functional Safety, attended the ceremony on site. Meanwhile, Mr. Ganesh Kumar, DEKRA ASPICE & Functional Safety Principal Consultant, and Mr. Kevin Huang, DEKRA Global Functional Safety and Cyber Security Manager, joined the ceremony online.
Automotive Software Process Improvement and Capacity Determination (ASPICE) is a model framework for assessing the R&D capability of software development team in the automotive industry, and one of the joint standards between ISO and IEC. ASPICE assesses the process capability of automotive electronic embedded software system project based on the model of Automotive SPICE PAM/PRM. It can be used to verify the initial tagged bit and goal of internal process improvement of R&D organization to provide guideline for high-level software development process. ASPICE is now globally recognized as the most valued certificate for software development.
In September 2020, Black Sesame released FAD, a fully autonomous driving computing platform with a capacity up to 116TOPS-232TOPS and integrating functions like sensing, positioning, sensor fusion, route planning and vehicle control. It satisfies the demands of complete L2+/L3 autonomous driving scenarios including TJP (Traffic Jam Pilot), HWP (Highway Pilot) and CP (Car Park Pilot). Based on FAD, the built-in RTOS is developed by Black Sesame with independent intellectual property rights. Featured by high reliability and being highly real-time, RTOS has complete application system, helping autonomous driving technology put into commercial application in a safe and reliable way. This time, DEKRA experts have conducted review for Black Sesame’s FAD platform empowered by Huashan No.2 A1000 autonomous driving computing chip, as well as built-in self-developed RTOS project within the scope of ASPICE VDA. The review shows Black Sesame’s product has reached leading level in the aspects of system development, software design and management.
Mr. Weihong Liu, Co-founder and COO of Black Sesame, said: “As a long-term participant in the field of vehicle-regulation-level autonomous driving computing chip of high-performance computing, Black Sesame understands the importance of quality for client’s delivery. Black Sesame is the first domestic artificial intelligence chip manufacturer that has obtained FSP Certification, Functional Safety Process Certification and Certificate of Conformity. This time we have been awarded the ASPICE CL2 certificate from DEKRA with the professional consultation support of EAST Consulting’s ASPICE team, which once again certifies that Black Sesame has established a comprehensive R&D and quality control system. In the future, Black Sesame will continue to optimize the whole process of development and delivery to provide our clients with autonomous driving platform solutions and products of high quality, high standard and high performance, staying true to our aspiration of pioneering industry innovation with safer technology and products and empowering the clients and the industry.”
Mr. Gerhard Rieger, Senior Vice President of DEKRA DIGITAL Global Functional Safety, said: “With the rapid development of autonomous driving technology and new energy vehicles, vehicle manufacturers have accelerated digital transformation where software plays an even more important roles in the vehicles. The fact that Black Sesame has been awarded the ASPICE CL2 certificate represents it has reached world-leading level in respect of autonomous driving computing chip and platform development and can provide safer and high-standard software solutions, and customized services for global automotive OEM and Tier 1 suppliers. DEKRA will continue working with Black Sesame to improve software quality control process so as to provide global clients with products and services of more advanced technology and better quality.”
Empowering future mobility with chips, Black Sesame drives industry development with safe and reliable vehicle-regulation-level autonomous driving chips of high-performance computing. In future, Black Sesame will continue to optimize product development process with the safety of autonomous driving system as the top priority. In addition to promoting innovation of autonomous driving technology, Black Sesame hopes to lead industry development with higher standard based on its strong technology and reliable safety performance, empowering the industry with trustworthy products and service solutions.
As a professional functional safety and cyber security technology service organization, DEKRA adheres to the one-stop service concept and provides customers in the automotive electronics field with high-end solutions with functional safety, cyber security and SOTIF, steering the transformation upgrade and sustainable development of automotive industry. DEKRA provides the industry with professional ISO 26262 / IEC 61508, ISO/SAE 21434 / SAE J3061, ISO 27001 / TISAX, and Automotive SPICE.
About Black Sesame
Black Sesame Technologies is a leading provider of autonomous driving computing chip, specializing in advanced R&D of high computing power chips and platforms. It provides full solutions in autonomous driving and V2X scenarios, including autonomous driving SoC design, image processing, autonomous driving computing chips with low power consumption and accurate perception as well as autonomous driving computing platforms, which enables the fast production of autonomous driving industrial-related solutions.