Volkswagen AG, Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH and Elektrobit's Automotive Software Unit, 3SOFT co-operate on the development of AUTOSAR compatible software

The introduction of AUTOSAR compatible software into serial development is the goal of the project which has been started by the four companies Volkswagen AG, Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH and Elektrobit's Automotive Software Unit, 3SOFT.

All four partners are developing together a fully functional Body/Comfort ECU for a Volkswagen series-production vehicle which will be furnished with AUTOSAR (AUTOSAR = Automotive Open System Architecture) compatible software. The aim of the project is to check, over a period of 12 months on a day-to-day basis, how the demands of the automotive industry with regards to Realtime-functionality can be met. The partners will also evaluate software integration, migration opportunities, use of resources, SW runtimes, quality of specifications and cost. The AUTOSAR Control Unit will be mounted in a Passat Limousine, thus creating an authentic test environment. Any experience gained from the project will flow back into the AUTOSAR consortium.

This co-operation finds four players in the field of vehicular electronics coming together and using their Know-how to form a complete development chain. NEC Electronics Europe’s contribution is a V-850 series microcontroller, whilst 3SOFT are providing the AUTOSAR software platform (tresos ECU AUTOSAR Suite). Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. are supplying the ECU hardware and software applications and are also acting as software integrator. Volkswagen are then integrating their own software modules and the ECU into the Passat.

In the last few years standard software has becoming increasingly more important to the automotive industry. This was highlighted by the formation of the global AUTOSAR partnership in which companies from the automotive and vehicular electronics industries have joined forces in order to make the software functions of automotive applications more modular, scaleable, transferable and reusable. For this purpose AUTOSAR provides a common software infrastructure for all vehicle categories. The successful introduction of AUTOSAR software standards will have a decisive global effect on the development of automotive software.

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