Last week the 28th Automobil-Elektronik Kongress brought many exciting thoughts around SDV Challenge and potential innovations.
Here below my personal highlights and thoughts:
- Top OEMs like #BMW, #Renault and #Stellantis shared common concerns:
HW complexity is exponentially growing, security measures are increasing with it as well
- Only a fraction of today’s SW platform is standardized, making integration effort a very hard challenge.
- Open-Source SW is not for free and majority of the integration and qualification effort is repeated.
- There is a clear need to generate a Safe SW platform driven by clear Stack Maintainers.
- Francis Chow gave a great speech about how Open Source can help to face the aforementioned challenges and talked about Red Hat effort towards Safety.
- SW will define the HW: OEMs need to define early in advance what to isolate and where to place it in the E/E architecture (safety and power constraints)
#Semiconductors vendors highlights:
- As NXP Semiconductors we shared our view on how the SDV efforts should be spent on brand differentiation, building strong partnership and enriching the ecosystem to accelerate development time. Great presentation Ray!
- Qualcomm brought the challenge of fusing Infotainment and ADAS domain, highlighting the importance to implement the “freedom from interference” principle into their design.
- Infineon presented the crucial role of power semiconductors in SDV, showing how the new E/E are only possible with safe & secure computing and high speed networsk.
- Another key aspect for SDV is networking capability, indeed Rosenberg highlighted new options beyond copper wiring, presenting the advantages to build vehicle networking backbone based on glass optical-fiber.
Last but not least, it was very interesting to see both #AppliedEV, T-System and #AuroraLabs demos based on both NXP Semiconductors S32G and i.MX devices!
It was a pleasure for me to learn from key expert and understand how much work there is still ahead of us to concretely shape the future of #SDV !