AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) is a worldwide development partnership of vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, service providers and companies from the automotive electronics, semiconductor and software industry.
Our motivation is
* to manage the software and E/E complexity associated with growth in functional scope
* to support the flexibility for product modification, upgrade and update
* to leverage the scalability of solutions within and across product lines
* to increase scalability and flexibility to integrate and transfer functions
* to improve quality and reliability of software and E/E systems
Our goal is
* to fullfil future vehicle requirements, such as availability and safety, SW upgrades/ updates, and maintainability
* to increase scalability and flexibility to integrate and transfer functions
* to increase a higher penetration of "Commercial off the Shelf" SW and HW components across product lines
* to re-use of software
* to accelerate development and maintenance
* to improve containment of product and process complexity and risk
* to optimize costs of scalable systems
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