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EDN Europe's Editor Graham Prophet posts a selection of comments and insights prompted by the many items of industry news and rumour that cross the editorial desk or are gathered on his frequent travels to interviews, press conferences and events around Europe - and further afield - and somehow never find their way to the magazine or the web site, recovering some of the information otherwise lost in the noise level...

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

November automotive electronics gathering hears from an Autosar user

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I have been looking ahead to a conference I’m due to attend next week, the Automotive Electronics Congress in Paris. In the conference session on the Wednesday (7th) one segment that looks potentially very interesting is about Autosar; it’s actually called “Standardisation: The long term impact of AUTOSAR on development cost and quality management of tomorrow’s vehicles?”

I didn’t put that question mark there – it’s in the programme, which suggests a possibility that the speaker (who is from PSA Peugeot Citroen) might think there is room for doubt on whether it (Autosar) is going to deliver. I shall ask the question, if no-one else does… If Autosar is not the best hope for getting a grip on automotive embedded software, getting the proliferation of versions under control and upping the rigour of the development process, then we would have to ask, what is? The sub-title of the session talks about software reallocation and reuse, but if there has been any upswing in the success of that process then the car-makers and the tier-ones have been pretty tight-lipped about it.

There’s also a nice ambiguity in the title of a panel session, “The critical tensions between low cost, high safety systems and environmental regulations.” Is the tension between low cost and high safety, or between both of those and the regulations? I’m hoping for bit of controversy from panelists that include Freescale’s Denis Griot.

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