Project Federate: Foundation of software and semiconductors

Software-defined vehicles Project Federate: Foundation of software and semiconductors

2024-05-12 Source: Press release | Translated by AI 1 min Reading Time

In Project Federate, 29 companies from the automotive, supplier, and semiconductor industries, as well as research, are working to identify, define, and design software and hardware components that serve as the functional prerequisite for the operation of software-defined vehicles. The project coordinator is AVL List.

For a faster, safer, and affordable development of software-defined vehicles, AVL and partners from the automotive and semiconductor industries combine their expertise.(Image: AVL List) — For a faster, safer, and affordable development of software-defined vehicles, AVL and partners from the automotive and semiconductor industries combine their expertise.
(Image: AVL List)

The vehicle of the future is software-defined. To drive developments, the EU unites key stakeholders from the automotive, supplier, semiconductor industry, and research in the Chips JU Framework in the Federate project. In addition to AVL as project coordinator, VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik, Continental France and Automotive Technologies, Elektrobit, Infineon Technologies, the Eclipse Foundation, TTTech Auto, MetisBaltic, Valeo, FZI, ZF, Vector, Forvia, AVL Germany, NXP, STMicroelectronics, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Renault, Ford, ETAS, verum, Cariad, Bosch, RWTH Aachen, TU Munich, Virtual Vehicle, and the University Oulu are involved.

Reduce development times and costs

In the coming years, the cooperation partners aim to identify, define, and design software and hardware components that serve as the functional prerequisite for the operation of all software-defined vehicles. Thanks to the pre-competitive exchange of methodologies and tools as well as collaborative work in an open-source ecosystem, development time and costs are significantly reduced to compete in the global market. New interfaces allow for faster integration of updates and new features. Additionally, in the future, vehicles should be able to access new cloud services and services more quickly, efficiently, and safely - a prerequisite for intelligent charging or e-banking. (se)

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