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ECU Consolidation and New Automotive Topologies
using Hypervisors
Chris Berg // Solutions Architect Automotive
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SYSGO // Brief Company Overview
• Embedded Software Technology
Leader
• Safe & Secure RTOS and Hypervisor
• > 25 Years of Experience
• Independent Entity of Thales Group Since
2012
• ~ 130 Employees
• International Presence
• Offices in D, F, CZ and UK
• WW Sales
• Target Markets
• Avionic, Defense, Space, Automotive,
Railway, Industry
• Competence in Software and
Certification
• ISO 9001/2015 und 27001 certified
• Real Time and Open Source OS
• Highest Certification Levels of Safety and
Security Standards
• Collaboration with Leading and Authorized
Test Labs
• > 80% of Engineering with Certification
Experience
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Automotive EE Architectures
Classic
Central Gateway
Domain Controller and
Connected Gateway
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Autonomous Driving Architectures
Multiple ECU Domain
Controller
Actuators
Sensors
ECU Domain Controler
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Distributed System of ECUs
Connectivity Box
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Instrument Cluster
Infotainment Head Unit
Electronic Toll Collection
Ref: Wikipedia
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Distributed System of ECUs
• Problems
• SWaP
• Size
• Weight
• Power
• Communication Overhead,
Interferences, the Cost of
Interconnect
• Validation of the Integrated System
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Consolidated System
Physical Hardware
PikeOS® (RTOS & Hypervisor)
ADASe.g. Traffic Sign identification
...
Core 0 Core 1 Core 2 Core 3
ECU State
Manage-ment
Toll Collection Gateway ..
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Consolidated System
• Characteristics of Consolidated System
• Multiple Safety Levels
• Multiple Security Domains
• Realtime and Non-Realtime Applications on a Single Device
• Shared Device Drivers
• Centralized State Management
• Centralized Health Monitoring
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Live Demo
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More Information? Read this professional article!
“Uniform hardware platforms for all car features”The cost-effective and safe implementation of assistance systems and autonomous cars requires a new approach to development of the
control components. The objective is to integrate diverse applications on one hardware platform, but—for safety reasons—to be able to
continue operating them fully independently...
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