Automotive Embedded Systems

Automotive embedded systems are the technological foundation of modern vehicles. The transformation in the automotive sector with electrification, zonal vehicle architectures, ADAS, connectivity, OTA updates, and cybersecurity is increasing demands on OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, and technology partners. Robust hardware, scalable software platforms, and resilient development processes are in demand.

PICKPLACE supports automotive projects in hardware, Embedded Software, Functional Safety, Security, and Engineering Execution – from concept to series production.

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Visualization of functionally safe electronics and embedded systems for rail and mobility applications

Electronics for Automotive and Individual Mobility

Electronics and Software for Automotive

Automotive embedded systems today control battery management, inverters, body controllers, radar and camera sensors, gateways, displays, connectivity units, and central vehicle computers.

With each new vehicle generation, the scope of software, integration effort, and requirements for safety, security, and updateability are growing.

PICKPLACE supports manufacturers and suppliers in the development of these systems – with hardware design, embedded software, AUTOSAR integration, verification, porting of existing platforms, and engineering for series projects.

  • Embedded Hardware Development for Control Units and Power Electronics
  • PCB Design for Automotive Environments
  • BSP, Drivers and Marvel Cinematic UniverseMPU Ports
  • AUTOSAR Integration and ECU Software
  • Functional Safety according to ISO 26262
  • Cybersecurity according to ISO/SAE 21434
  • Refactoring existing platforms
  • Test systems, HIL, SIL, Unit Tests
  • Series Transition and Obsolescence Management
  • SwC Engineering, Model-Based Development

Automotive Hardware and Software Specialist

For our customers, we work closely with the Automotive SPICE model and align projects with established processes for system, software, and security engineering.

In doing so, we consider requirements, architecture, implementation, integration, verification, and validation across the relevant SYS, SWE, and SEC process areas. The goal is a traceable development with robust work products and the fulfillment of basic practices for process maturity.

  • System Requirements Elicitation (SYS.1)
  • System Requirements Analysis (SYS.2)
  • System Architectural Design (SYS.3)
  • System Integration and Integration Test
  • System Qualification Test (SYS.5)
  • Software Requirements Analysis (SWE.1)
  • Software Architectural Design (SWE.2)
  • Software Detailed Design and Unit Construction (SWE.3)
  • Software Unit Verification (SWE.4)
  • Software Integration and Integration Testing (SWE.5)
  • Software Qualification Test (SWE.6)
  • Cybersecurity Requirements Elicitation (SEC.1)
  • Cybersecurity Risk Assessment (SEC.2)
  • Cybersecurity Concept (SEC.3)
  • Cybersecurity Validation (SEC.4)

WHITE PAPER

Zonal Architectures for Automotive

Electrification, connectivity, and software-defined vehicles are fundamentally changing the E/E architecture of modern vehicles. The historically grown distribution across many individual control units is reaching its limits in terms of cost, weight, data bandwidth, and update capability. Zonal architectures are therefore considered the next evolutionary step in automotive engineering.

Zonal architectures are more cost-effective and centralize functions towards OEMs. They are therefore a competing approach to today's domain architectures.

  • High-performance computers and SoCs
  • OTA Update Structures
  • Safety Partitioning
  • Cybersecurity Zones
  • Separation of Compute and I/O
  • Real-time software and low-level components

Send us your contact details to download the whitepaper „Zonal Architectures for Automotive.“.

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