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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!

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