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Methodical Approach for Centralization Evaluation of Modern Automotive E/E Architectures

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Centralization is considered as a key enabler to master the CPU-intensive features of the modern car. The development and architecture change towards the next generation car is influenced by ADAS, connectivity, infotainment and the consequential need for cyber-security. There is already a high number of papers describing future centralized E/E architectures and technical instruments for centralization. What is missing is a methodical approach to analyze an existing system and find its potential for centralization on the function level. This paper introduces an approach that serves a system designer or engineer to abstract functions and thus enables to shape a more centralized system architecture. The commonly known E/E architecture designs and the named instruments of current research are the basis for this abstraction. Based on the approach, new system architecture proposals can be set up to discuss and outweigh advantages and disadvantages of those. The approach is validated by applying it step by step to the inlet‘s derating function of a modern electric vehicle. A following discussion points out that many different factors affect the potential for centralization and centralization may not be the future of every function and system in general.

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Mauser, L., Wagner, S., Ziegler, P. (2023). Methodical Approach for Centralization Evaluation of Modern Automotive E/E Architectures. In: Batista, T., Bureš, T., Raibulet, C., Muccini, H. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2022 Tracks and Workshops. ECSA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13928. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36889-9_13

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