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Benefits:
- Increased re-use of software,
- Increased design flexibility, Clear design rules for integration
- Reduction of costs for software development and service in the long term
- Focus on protected, innovative, and competitive functions
Objectives:
- Consideration of availability and safety requirements
- Redundancy activation
- Scalability to different vehicle and platform variants
- Implementation and standardization of basic functions as an industry-wide “standard core” solution
- Transferability of functions from one ECU to another within the network of ECUs
- Integration of functional modules from multiple suppliers
- Maintainability throughout the whole product life cycle
- Increased use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware
- Software updates and upgrades over vehicle lifetime.