AGL All-Member Meeting Winter 2017

Software is increasingly driving new feature introduction and cost-efficiency improvement in new cars. Computing architectures are still very distributed and hardware oriented. AGL has been advocating consolidation of multiple ECUs into one. Consolidation will lay basics for software defined car, and the roadmap presented in ALS 2016 is the agenda for that.

We would like to present our ideas for distributed architectures in future cars. Consolidation is a trend that can continue in the IVI/IC head-unit, and also go in parallel with other areas. In some areas, such as connectivity and body / engine control, it makes sense to implement sensors and actuators nearby the computer. Consolidation in parallel areas calls for solutions for distributed software development. AUTOSAR has previously attempted this, but Linux can be better equipped to tackle the challenge as seen in device design.