Embedded Systems

摘要

The structure with numerous small, dedicated, control units in a vehicle, each with very lean programming, is slowly dissolving because the trend is now toward the software-defined car and toward centralized control architectures. This means that the concepts for control-unit software must be reconsidered to ensure that the established software structures are not simply emulated but new structures are created. Fraunhofer IESE and Bosch show where the journey is heading. High power computing is absolutely essential for?future centralized structures. It is obvious that high-performance computing in a car is a supreme discipline because no vehicle can afford the burden of carrying ballast in the form of energy consumption and weight, as Martin Schleicher from Continental shows in the interview. The matter is not made any simpler by the fact that reserves must be available for future applications, as a vehicle’s development will never be completed. And last but not least, Videantis promises a scalable processor architecture for a range of EE architectures and applications whose computing cores can be used in a flexible manner. The so-called unified IP architectures are said to consume considerably less current than the Tesla FSD modules or comparable ARM/GPU modules, for example, and thus produce much less waste heat.