diff --git a/doc/developer-guides/hld/hld-overview.rst b/doc/developer-guides/hld/hld-overview.rst index b551aa9ac..e1e93d5ec 100644 --- a/doc/developer-guides/hld/hld-overview.rst +++ b/doc/developer-guides/hld/hld-overview.rst @@ -4,17 +4,17 @@ ACRN High-Level Design Overview ############################### ACRN is an open-source reference hypervisor (HV) that runs on top of -:ref:`Intel platforms ` for heterogeneous scenarios such as the -Software-defined Cockpit (SDC), or the In-vehicle Experience (IVE) for -automotive, or HMI & real-time OS for industry. ACRN provides embedded -hypervisor vendors with a reference I/O mediation solution with a -permissive license and provides auto makers and industry users a +:ref:`Intel platforms ` for heterogeneous use cases such as +Software-defined Cockpit (SDC), or In-vehicle Experience (IVE) for +automotive, or human-machine interface (HMI) and real-time OS for industry. +ACRN provides embedded hypervisor vendors with a reference I/O mediation +solution with a permissive license and provides auto makers and industry users a reference software stack for corresponding use. -ACRN Supported Use Cases -************************ +ACRN Use Cases +************** -Software Defined Cockpit +Software-Defined Cockpit ======================== The SDC system consists of multiple systems: the instrument cluster (IC) @@ -51,15 +51,15 @@ a customized IC/IVI/RSE. Industry Usage ============== -A typical industry usage would include one Windows HMI + one RT VM: +A typical industry usage includes one Windows HMI + one real-time VM (RTVM): -- Windows HMI as a guest OS with display to provide Human Machine Interface -- RT VM that runs a specific RTOS on it to handle +- Windows HMI as a guest OS with display to provide human-machine interface +- RTVM that runs a specific RTOS on it to handle real-time workloads such as PLC control ACRN supports a Windows* Guest OS for such HMI capability. ACRN continues to add features to enhance its real-time performance to meet hard-RT key performance -indicators for its RT VM: +indicators for its RTVM: - Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) - Memory Bandwidth Allocation (MBA) @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ differences compared to ACRN 1.0 are that: - ACRN 2.0 adds a few necessary device emulations in the hypervisor, such as vPCI and vUART, to avoid interference between different VMs. -- ACRN 2.0 supports an RT VM as a post-launched User VM, with features such as +- ACRN 2.0 supports an RTVM as a post-launched User VM, with features such as LAPIC passthrough and PMD virtio driver. .. figure:: images/over-image35.png