ETAS: Three Important Trends Toward SDVs
E/E architecture, hardware and software separation, cooperation with IT companies
2024/02/21
- Summary
- Situation related to SDVs
- Three important trends toward SDVs
- Changes in the development process
- Trend 1: Distributed to Centralized - Redefining In-Vehicle Software
- Trend 2: Manual to Tool-driven - Speed of development / delivery of increasingly complex software is key
- Trend 3: Closed-source to Open-source - Personalized, Cooperative, Cloud-native
Summary
Through interviews with an ETAS representative and other materials, this report summarizes the major trends toward software-defined vehicles (SDVs).
Until now, the criteria for selecting a car were such as engine performance, exterior design, and safety, but in the future, with functional safety a given, whether the car provides a seamless user experience (UX) and continuous evolution while at home, on the move, and at work will be key.
In order to realize this world, there are three trends as we move from the current state (Era 1: the era in which ECU hardware and software are tied together), through the transition period (Era 2: the era of increasing use cases and applications), to the final phase (Era 3: the era of full programmability), as follows.
Trend 1: Distributed to Centralized - Redefining In-Vehicle Software
Trend 2: Manual to Tool-driven - Speed of development / delivery of increasingly complex software is key
Trend 3: Closed-source to Open-source - Personalized, Cooperative, Cloud-native
Interview and reference reports (titles omitted):
ETAS GmbH (ETAS) White Paper: Trends towards Software-defined Vehicles, Dr. Ismet Aktaş
ETAS White Paper: The next step in E/E architectures, Dr. Thorsten Huck, Dr. Andreas Achtzehn, Andreas Deberling, Erik Goerres, Dr. Karsten Wehefritz
ETAS White Paper: Reality check: Five Approaches to the Software-Defined Vehicle from the Past Decade, Sebastian Werner, Felix Kreichgauer, Sven Kappel, Claudio Seitz Markus Menze
Interviewee (titles omitted):
Seiji Ishikawa, General Manager, DEV Solution Sales, ETAS K.K.
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