The automotive industry is undergoing disruptive change, this is why car makers have to rely on a trusted partner in building next-generation automotive architectures. The classic vehicle is being transformed into a software-defined Internet of Things (IoT) device. Personalization, connectivity, and mobility-as-a-service are becoming more and more important for drivers and passengers. The amount of software in vehicles is increasing and will continue to increase. The future of driving depends on re-designing the core architecture of the car as well as re-thinking the software that powers it. Developments such as connectivity, smart devices, e-mobility, and automated driving place high demands on the in-vehicle network architecture.

Automated driving functions, in particular, call for incredibly powerful electronic control units (ECUs). The more driving tasks the software assumes and the more connections there are to the outside world, the greater the demand on these ECUs is.

Functional safety and security create additional requirements for future software architectures. It is essential that safety systems work reliably to ensure human safety, even in the case of a malfunction or an accident.

To accommodate these increasing demands and changing needs, the vehicle architecture is evolving, moving from complex distributed systems to consolidated, high-performance central and zonal architectures. Future platforms will communicate via service-orientated paradigms that allow flexible updating and localization.

Adaptive AUTOSAR, where safety meets performance

To enable highly automated and connected driving, car makers are consolidating up to 100 single ECUs into a centralized functional architecture with just five to ten embedded performance controllers at its core. To make this possible, car makers are in need of new software to leverage the capabilities of powerful multi-core processors.

Elektrobit, your Adaptive AUTOSAR partner

EB was among the first to offer a commercially available software implementation of Adaptive AUTOSAR, and its scalable solutions are making it easier for car makers and Tier 1 suppliers to develop these advanced systems. Our performance platform provides the necessary ingredients to create fail-operational software systems mandatory for automated driving up to Level 5. It allows maximum potential utilization of today’s processors by consolidating heterogeneous applications into one system on a chip. EB works closely with the supplier ecosystem such as Intel, NVIDIA, NXP, Renesas, and QNX to best meet our customers’ needs.