As we mentioned in a previous article, Increasing-Entropy-in-the-Sector-of-Automotive-Software, the trends around the software-defined vehicle and centralization of electronics hardware components come from the automotive industry’s need to adjust to new applications and the requirements for cloud-connected cars.
Electronic control units are migrating from deeply embedded systems to nomadic functions (i.e., virtual ECUs) delivered by high-performance-computing (HPC) servers.
The need for change has resulted from a continuous evolution of in-vehicle systems and applications having different requirements for performance, latency, security and safety when addressing flexibility and scalability.
A key challenge is to find common ground in the development of new in-vehicle architectures, so that different pieces, coming from different suppliers, will fit together perfectly, as in a complex puzzle.