To help bring software-defined vehicles (SDVs) to market more quickly, Vector Informatik is expanding its portfolio and offering more advisory and supporting assistance.
Based on a collaborative working mode, the services assist customers during the development of an SDV from an early design phase with requirements and architecture engineering, through to integration and testing phases.
Vehicle manufacturers can reduce their time-to-market through a fast project progression driven by internal and external experts. To help achieve this acceleration, Vector provides advisory services for the different SDV phases from definition through development up to production, while considering automotive quality, safety and security requirements. The solution is based on hands-on experiences and best practices gained first-hand in numerous Vector SDV projects with various customers worldwide.
The company’s current portfolio covers topics such as architecture design, software integration, test and automation for the development of a software platform both in-vehicle and cloud. The standard framework consists of patterns, workflows, blueprints, templates, how-to’s and pre-defined building blocks for the Base Layer and Software Factory.
Tailored packages are also available for both new players (greenfield approach) and existing customers (brownfield approach). Also considered are different E/E and software use cases such as central gateway architecture, domain controller architecture or zonal architecture, and ECU use cases such as zonal controllers and high-performance computers (HPC) for AD/ADAS or in-vehicle infotainment (IVI).
Dr Matthias Traub, director of embedded software and systems at Vector, explained, “Our services give our customers the freedom to focus on the features and innovations that are relevant to them. We share our expertise and actively support them to build the foundation for the features, the so-called software platform.
“We know that there are no plug-and-play solutions for an SDV. That is why we support development projects with both coaching and collaborative project services.”