AUTOSAR The Worldwide Automotive Standard for E/E Systems

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AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) is a partnership between automotive manufacturers, suppliers and tool and semiconductor vendors. Since 2003 AUTOSAR has been working on the development of an open, standardized software architecture for automotive electronic control units (ECUs).

Principle of AUTOSAR
AUTOSAR has the principle Cooperate on standards, compete on implementation. As the delivery of implementations in particular implementations of basic software and tooling must be enabled and supported worldwide, the best quality and service is expected in free competition on implementation level.

The AUTOSAR development partnership is focused on managing the growing complexity in the development of automotive electric/electronic (E/E) architecture, with the aim to improve development efficiency without making compromises on quality. AUTOSAR paves the way for innovative electronic systems that further improve performance, safety and environmental friendliness.

AUTOSAR The Idea The AUTOSAR standard consists of a set of specifications that describe a software architecture, application interfaces and a methodology. The AUTOSAR layered software architecture enables the development of independent software components. These can be used in vehicles of different manufacturers, and in electronic components of different suppliers that can

span multiple product generations. It results in a high reliability of the overall system with significant cost and capacity benefits. The AUTOSAR principle Cooperate on standards, compete on implementation offers various benefits to automotive manufacturers, automotive suppliers, tool providers, and even new market entrants.

Autosar The Vision

AUTOSAR aims to improve complexity management of integrated E/E architectures through increased reuse and transferability of SW modules between OEMs and suppliers.

AUTOSAR Key Milestones Phase I (2003-2006) AUTOSAR was founded as a development partnership in 2003 Release 1.0: AUTOSAR specifications for basic software below the runtime environment (RTE) level Release 2.0 and 2.1: completion of Basic Software (BSW) components and the RTE With Release 2.1 and Release 3.0/3.1, the majority of members started their series roll-out of AUTOSAR Phase II (2007-2009) Release 3.0: harmonization of the ECU wake-up and the network start-up Release 3.1: incorporation of OnBoard-Diagnostics (OBD) regulations support mechanisms First ECUs based on AUTOSAR have entered production in 2008 Release 4.0: new features for functional safety and communication Work on new car domains in the field of application interfaces: Telematics/ Multimedia/HMI and Occupants and Pedestrian Safety Systems Phase III (2010-2012) Release 3.2.1 and 4.0.3: incorporation of Partial Networking General Objectives: Maintenance of existing releases Selective enhancement of the standard driven by market needs Improve maintainability of the standard Post phase III (from 2013 onwards) Selective, market-driven enhancements and extensions to the standard with focus on stabilization, limited number of parallel Releases and excellent match of series development requirements Release 4.1 Revision 1 (planned to be published in March 2013): AUTOSAR will introduce about 30 new concepts for enhanced functionality and maintainability, usability and compliance Enhanced features for new technologies like multi-core processors, Ethernet/TCP/IP communication mechanisms and others

Benefits of Autosar The realization of the AUTOSAR industry standard will provide significant benefits for OEMs, suppliers, semiconductor vendors as well as for tool and service providers and new market entrants. BENefits for OEM: Establish development distribution among suppliers Compete on innovative functions with increased design flexibility Simplify software and system integration Reduce overall software development costs Benefits for tool provider: Tool based development process and standardized exchange formats Benefits for supplier: Reduce implementation variability using an industry wide standard Reuse software modules across OEMs Increase efficiency of application development Invent new business models

Benefits for new market entrant: Enable new business models by means of standardized interfaces

AUTOSAR The Global Automotive Software Standard

Many OEMs and suppliers rely on the standard and are introducing AUTOSAR in a wide range of applications. 25 million ECUs produced by the AUTOSAR Core Partners in 2011 are based on the AUTOSAR architecture, with 300 million planned for 2016.

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How to become an AUTOSAR member: For further information please visit www.autosar.org Send an e-mail to request@autosar.org to receive the AUTOSAR information package. Become a member and avail exploitation rights for the AUTOSAR Standard.

Members of the AUTOSAR Development Partnership (Status: December 2011)

The AUTOSAR development partnership reserves all rights even in the event of industrial rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on third parties.

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