Software-Defined Vehicles
Summary
More recently, another category has come into play that doesn’t fit neatly into these other buckets — advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS), which improves the driving experience and adds to the safety of the vehicle. “The physical properties that are required to put those vehicles and power trains together will become more standardized,” said Doug Burcicki, director for IESD automotive market development at Mentor, a Siemens Business. In contrast to the guessing game that is needed for sensor/module solutions, the winning SoC power roadmap pushes the limits of the architecture and process capabilities.” Staying up to date Accompanying all of these capabilities will be a rich communications channel that sends operational data up to the cloud and facilitates the downloading of entertainment and driver-assist services. “If your son or daughter is taking your car out and you want to limit the performance that they can get out of the vehicle, you could do that using a software switch,” said Aileen Ryan, senior director of strategy in Mentor’s UltraSoc business unit. “OTA has a broad set of security requirements, since updates are pushed from a cloud infrastructure into the automobile itself, and protecting this data in flight is important,” said Tortuga Logic’s Oberg.