Techno Savy

The last generation automotive architecture is going to be outdated soon. Hundreds of electronic control unit inside the automotive will be a history going forward. But why this transition is needed? What exactly it will change the way automotive architecture will be designed in the future.

Every now and then, A new adaption of change makes the automotive sector to redefine their strategy to keep up the pace of technology shift. This time it is on how the vehicle is controlled. There is different control units placed on every system to take care of its own working and diagnostics based on the vehicle dynamics. This architecture is basically to make the architecture nuclear to the system itself.

In the modern-day vehicle architecture this nuclear architecture is shifting towards joint and centralized architecture. This transition is pushed by the below needs and expectations.

1. Shift from Hardware to Software intensive functional architecture.
2. Need of control centric architecture.
3. Better management in function deployment for OEM.
4. Advanced development in semiconductor technology.
5. More open-source SW development.
6. Democratization of technology.
7. And Finally, Less electronics – Less pollution, Less energy spent

In this list, there is one major contributor which made automotive company to rethink their design on higher attention.

Advanced development in semiconductor technology

Technological advancement in semiconductor development is no more a science fiction. It has revolutionized the way semiconductor has been used until now in any sector. What has been really changed in semiconductor?

1. Size – Very small packages in nano meters
2. Performance – Up to 64 Cores in one single chip with GPUs and NPUs
3. Reliability – Highly Power efficient with Reliable thermal transfers

By having such a smallest high performing chip gives the urge to make the architectural consolidation to one single central processing commander which can take care of every system control and able to adapt for any new changes without any major change in architecture. There single central processing commander is called as “High Performance Computers” in semiconductor world. We will see more about these Chip in my next post…