The automotive industry is rapidly evolving towards the era of the software-defined vehicle (SDV). This shift is heavily influenced by innovations from new Electric Vehicle (EV) providers, who use efficient modern architectures to enable unique functionalities and bring vehicles to market faster.
Yet the transition from traditional to modern vehicle design is massively complex: Large numbers of ECUs in the vehicle coupled with the corresponding surge in processing code, plus requirements for backwards compatibility to work with specific legacy platforms and applications as well as future-forward updates. The level of customization needed to accommodate multiple software platforms connected across many ECUs has slowed down progress.
System designers can follow the lead of EV innovators who have adopted a standards-based architecture that can streamline development, simplify access to critical interfaces and enable interoperability between components and suppliers. This architecture is based on the open Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard which enables code portability and system scalability.
This talk will discuss the challenges of using traditional development approaches in modern vehicle design. It will introduce a standards-based architecture that is popular in EV production programs, and provide an introductory technical overview of how it can be applied to modern SDV development.