Domain Controlled Architecture - A New Approach for Large Scale Software Integrated Automotive Systems

Electric and electronic functionalities increase exponentially in every mobility domain. The automotive industry is confronted with a rising system complexity and several restricting requirements and standards (like AUTOSAR), in particular to design embedded software for electronic control units. To stand against rampant functionalities software units could be restructured according to their affiliation and should not be attached to a certain place. This can be effected by integration on single controllers. On the one hand the system wide amount of hardware controllers could such be limited. On the other hand the workload for integration CPUs will rise. To support this paradigm, multi-core systems can provide enough processing power in an efficient way. This paper shows a first approach to combine automotive functionality on such a single controller.