by Mark Fitzgerald, with Chris Rommel | 08/19/2024

The automotive industry is undergoing unprecedented change as technological advancements enable the development of features for connected infotainment and services, ADAS and semi-autonomous systems, and advanced powertrain solutions. This change is promoting the shift from the hardware-defined vehicle with a distributed electrical/electronic (E/E) architecture to the software-defined vehicle (SDV) with a centralized domain or zonal electronic control unit (ECU) structure that is upgradable via over-the-air (OTA) updates.

An SDV is designed to allow vehicle management, functionality, and feature enablement primarily determined by software and software upgrades via OTA updates. The SDV approach also enables the decoupling of software and hardware development allowing for the software to be developed independently from hardware…

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