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ELIV 2025 - International Congress for Electronics in Vehicles
Open source, AI, and chiplet - Technological trends supporting SDV
2025/12/12
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Summary
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Panel Discussion: Accelerate Innovation
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Keynote Audi: Diverging International Market and Customer Requirements
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Keynote BMW: From Announcements to Delivery - The BMW NEUE KLASSE from the Perspective of the Electric/Electronics Architecture
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Microchip: Cost-Efficient and Optimized Hardware Architectures Enabling Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs)
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Bosch: Outlook to the Next Level of AI Powered Speech-Based Cockpit UI
Summary
The International VDI Congress ELIV, organized by the VDI Wissensforum GmbH, is the world's largest congress for automotive electronics, software, and applications.
Under the theme “Accelerate Innovation.”, ELIV 2025 brought together the global automotive electronics community at the World Conference Center in Bonn on October 15–16.
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| ELIV 2025 at the World Conference Center in Bonn (ELIV 2025 organized by VDI Wissensforum GmbH/photo: Copyright © MarkLines Co., Ltd. All rights reserved) |
This year's event spotlighted the transformative role of open source in vehicle development, alongside cutting-edge topics such as chiplets, artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, and electromobility. As a premier platform for collaboration among OEMs, suppliers, tech innovators, and researchers, ELIV 2025 addressed a central challenge: how to sustainably accelerate innovation to maintain Europe's competitive edge in the automotive sector.
With 66 technical presentations across four parallel tracks, the congress offered deep insights into both emerging technologies and established electronics topics to around 850 experts from the international automotive industry.
Running concurrently, the Electronics in Commercial Vehicles Congress provided additional perspectives, allowing attendees to explore synergies across sectors.
Participants were also given the possibility to visit the booths of 68 national and international exhibitors on site.
Among the models on display in the exhibition area were the recently launched brand new BMW iX3 50 xDrive and the Mercedes-Benz CLA 250+ with EQ technology.
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| Impression of demo vehicles exhibited at the event (ELIV 2025 organized by VDI Wissensforum GmbH/photos: Copyright © MarkLines Co., Ltd. All rights reserved) | ||
MIAMy Transformations Hub showcased its innovative Modular Automated Transport System (MATS), a pioneering concept that aims to revolutionize urban mobility and logistics. The electrically powered vehicle can reach a maximum speed of 50 km/h in manual mode and 25 km/h in autonomous mode. Visitors could explore interior concepts by means of VR glasses.
Aumovio demonstrated its Dolby Atmos®-enhanced Ac2ated Sound technology in a Tesla Model 3. This innovative system replaces traditional loudspeakers by transforming interior surfaces—such as the instrument panel, A-pillars, and roof panels—into sound sources using compact actuators. The result is a speakerless, immersive audio experience that significantly reduces weight and installation space.
In a Volkswagen ID.4 participants could experience how the advanced AI-based system Perciv AI can enhance perception and validation in autonomous driving systems. Perciv AI uses multi-sensor fusion (camera, radar, liDAR) and AI-based validation algorithms to interpret complex driving environments and detect edge cases in real time.
And last but not least, RWTH Aachen University presented its research project BEE – BEV Goes eHighway, which focuses on the development and evaluation of overhead line technology for heavy-duty electric road transport.
The conference was opened by Dr. Rolf Zöller, CEO and Founder DigiTrans Consulting, Tübingen, former Porsche AG and Porsche Digital, and chairman of the program committee.
He gave a short introduction to each automotive trend session of the conference:
Open Source: open source software can significantly reduce development times, especially for ADAS and autonomous driving technologies. A notable example discussed was industry initiatives aiming at accelerating software development using open source components.
Chiplets and Semiconductors: chiplets increase flexibility, improve performance and save costs.
Software for the SDV: Software is at the heart of the SDV transformation—driving strategy, security, cloud integration, and virtualization to enable scalable, flexible vehicle platforms and accelerate innovation across OEMs. While the technology is gaining momentum, it remains in the early stages of adoption, with fully realized SDVs making up only around five percent of vehicles worldwide.
Automotive AI: There is a growing trend of AI-supported development in the automotive industry. Edge AI and Agentic AI are playing a key role in transforming processes from sensor data handling to system validation.
Disruptive Methods & Tools: Virtualization and advanced simulation methods are emerging as key drivers of innovation. Processes, methods, and tools are becoming increasingly standardized worldwide, while AI-supported approaches in product development deliver efficiency gains of around 15 percent.
Architecture & Communication: Significant progress is still needed in developing SDV architectures. Clear architecture specifications are critical for success, and with the rise of zonal designs, the focus is shifting toward high-performance computing platforms equipped with hypervisors and robust middleware layers.
Automated Driving: The transition from Level 2+ to Level 3 automated driving is within reach. Progress is advancing on multiple fronts, including perception and sensor fusion, computing platform performance, robust software architectures, safety measures, and regulatory approval.
Cockpit & Customer Experience: The digital user experience inside the vehicle is becoming increasingly important. Market-specific, user-friendly HMIs, high-performance navigation and visualization, seamless integration with advanced driver assistance systems, and the growing presence of in-vehicle digital assistants are shaping the future of cockpit and customer experience.
Organizational Transformation: Cultural and strategic shifts are essential for the automotive industry. Young professionals developing expertise in SDV architectures, toolchains, and AI methodologies today will find a rapidly growing market tomorrow, projected at 12–20%. In a cooperative ecosystem, Tier 1 suppliers manage engineering packages while specialized companies create and license software products to OEMs.
Electronics Technology for Mobility: A broad spectrum of automotive and hardware-related technologies will remain the foundation of future mobility systems, forming the essential technological basis for overall system integration.
After introducing the conference topics, Dr. Zöller moderated a panel discussion with the title “Accelerate Innovation”.
This report will summarize this panel discussion, keynotes from Audi and BMW, and two selected presentations from Bosch and Microchip.
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