Microchip and Elektrobit Integrate Automotive AUTOSAR Development Platform

As the automotive industry shifts toward SDV, the complexity of in-vehicle software is also increasing. As a result, automakers and parts suppliers face the challenge of shortening development cycles while maintaining safety and quality and rapidly implementing differentiated features.

Microchip Technology and Elektrobit are collaborating in response to this situation. Microchip announced the partnership on the 16th, saying the goal is to simplify and accelerate AUTOSAR software development based on its automotive platform.

The two companies are offering a pre-integrated AUTOSAR solution for developing next-generation software-defined vehicles (SDVs). The solution combines Microchip's automotive hardware platform, Elektrobit AUTOSAR software, and Elektrobit development tools and automation technology.

This is designed to support the efficient build of production-ready software. By providing Microchip's automotive platform and Elektrobit's AUTOSAR capabilities in a pre-integrated form, the two companies aim to reduce development burdens and help establish a foundation for production software.

Elektrobit said it is providing pre-integrated AUTOSAR MCAL software based on its EB tresos portfolio. The focus is on reducing hardware-software integration complexity and lowering project risk.

This is expected to enable faster work from the early stages of development and reduce the time spent on base software integration. As a result, development teams can focus on application development and implementing vehicle-specific differentiating features, and the transition from platform evaluation to production deployment is also expected to become smoother.

Mark Reiten said the integration of Microchip's automotive platform with Elektrobit's AUTOSAR expertise and development tools helps simplify customers' development process. He added that it also supports the acceleration of adoption of next-generation automotive architectures.

Elektrobit applied an Automation-first approach to this collaboration. The approach turns repetitive Classic AUTOSAR integration tasks into reusable execution logic, and the name of the approach is Integration-as-Code.

This approach is effective in reducing repetitive work and leads to a higher level of automation in the development process. As a result, development speed and scalability can improve. In addition, advanced workflow automation can serve as a basis for implementing future AI-based software configuration and development processes.

Jaganathan Rajagopalan, Elektrobit's executive vice president in charge of strategy and portfolio, said the challenge for automakers is to reduce development costs and complexity while accelerating software innovation. He said the company supports customers in reducing integration risk and accelerating time to market for SDV innovation by combining a proven automotive software base with hardware support that can be used immediately.

The two companies plan to expand support for Microchip's automotive platforms. To that end, Elektrobit has implemented EB tresos AutoCore OS and the EB tresos AutoCore Generic module on Microchip's SAMA5 series MPU. The purpose of this implementation is to support customer use. Based on this, the two companies plan to gradually expand support for Microchip platforms as the collaboration broadens.

Initial market activities will focus on the Asian automotive market, and the initial targets also include the two-wheeler market. The criterion for selecting the initial markets is growth potential. After that, the scope of collaboration is expected to expand to broader automotive market opportunities in Asia and North America.

Source: TECHWORLD · Park Gyu-chan
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=408298

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