One flash budget.
One homologation date.
Tier-1 suppliers and OEMs building passenger-car, two-wheeler or off-highway displays hit the same wall every programme: a memory budget that doesn't move, a type-approval date that doesn't wait, and a team that has to jump between bare-metal MCU rendering and full Android infotainment without losing months at the handover. Crossware's three cofounders spent their automotive careers solving exactly this, at Bosch, Harman and Nuance.
Specified by people who've sat on the other side of the brief.
When Crossware quotes a flash budget or a frame-rate target, it comes from people who used to set those same budgets themselves. All three cofounders arrived from long automotive careers, at companies including Bosch, Harman and Nuance. Their work sat squarely in automotive infotainment, speech recognition, 3D map rendering and HMI, the three disciplines that defined the in-car experience of that generation of vehicles.
Senior members of the engineering team bring their own automotive history, including work with Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India and other leading Tier 1 suppliers. It means the people specifying a programme have sat on the other side of it.
The wall every automotive display programme hits.
Different vehicle classes, the same pressure: a display, a budget that doesn't move and a homologation date that doesn't wait. Here's where that pressure shows up, and what closes it.
Passenger infotainment has to feel premium on a budget set two years before launch.
Infotainment systems for passenger vehicles, the domain the founding team built its careers in and the reason the company exists. See it as a delivered capability on Digital Cockpits.
The cluster sits next to safety-critical content, on one display, with one rendering budget.
Instrument cluster development for passenger cars, with safe rendering practices for the content that can't be wrong, next to Edge AI-driven ADAS visualisation and multi-camera surround views on the same screen.
Entry TFT clusters leave no headroom, every kilobyte of flash is already spoken for.
Entry and mid-segment two-wheeler clusters on constrained TFT hardware, built with Qt for MCUs to keep a premium-feeling HMI inside a bare-metal budget.
The flagship model needs richer graphics on the same hardware family.
Premium and performance two-wheeler clusters with richer graphics, animation and ride telemetry, on higher-capability TFT platforms without a platform change.
Riders expect their phone on the display, on hardware that was never designed around it.
Two-wheeler clusters carrying Android Auto and CarPlay-style features, built on the same projection engineering used across the rest of the product line.
Off-highway and commercial machines run longer, harsher and under different rules.
Cluster development for off-highway machines and commercial vehicles built for longer service lives, harsher operating conditions and different regulatory ground.
A programme that doesn't change hands when the silicon does.
Move from an MCU-class cluster to an MPU-class infotainment system, and most teams hand the programme to someone new, along with the ramp-up time that comes with it. Crossware works across the automotive chipsets that dominate both jobs, the MCUs behind clusters and the MPUs behind infotainment, and scales the same team the whole way, from bare-metal development to full Linux and Android systems.
MCU class, clusters
Automotive microcontrollers where graphics runs close to the metal and the constraint is flash, bandwidth and frame budget.
MPU class, infotainment
Application processors where the problem shifts to the platform, board support, middleware, media and the full application stack.
A homologation date that doesn't survive a second integration pass.
Automotive development cycles have their own gates and their own paperwork, and a missed one costs a model year. Crossware knows them, and supports customers across the full cycle rather than handing back a build and stepping away at integration.
Platform selection, graphics strategy and the early decisions that set the budget for everything after.
Bring-up, application and HMI development, and the optimisation work that keeps a build inside its constraints.
Testing on target, performance measurement and release validation against programme requirements.
Support through type approval, Android Auto/CarPlay certification, and the cybersecurity and CRA compliance steps that stand between a working cluster and a shipping vehicle.
Go deeper.
Two-Wheelers
The segment where most of Crossware's cluster volume sits, from basic TFT to phone projection.
SolutionDigital Cockpits
Cluster and cockpit HMI as a delivered capability rather than a component.
Engineering HubCase studies
Production programmes with the constraint, the approach and the measured outcome.
Tell us the vehicle and the date.
Passenger car, two-wheeler, off-highway or commercial, if it has a display and a homologation date, Crossware has shipped something like it.