Local automotive electronics infrastructure software

As users' functional requirements for automotive electronics continue to expand, the increase in the number of automotive electronic devices and the promotion of full vehicle electronics have become an important means for local automakers to seize the market and respond to international competition. This has brought great opportunities for the development of China's automakers and automotive electronics companies, but at the same time, it has increasingly experienced bottlenecks in the development process. This hindrance mainly comes from the market's demand for highly reliable automotive electronics. As well as the demand for development cycle and development cost reduction, these market pressures point to a problem that China has not yet formed the standardization of automotive electronics. China's auto electronics industry is still weak in supporting domestic auto brands.

Due to the lack of a standardized development platform for proprietary intellectual property rights, China's autonomous car brands have long relied on foreign products for their chips, hardware and basic software. This has led to the inability of self-owned brand cars to possess core technology, and due to the barriers caused by the technology, the cost of production of self-owned brand cars has been too high. Even if you pay a big price for foreign products, foreign companies will not provide personalized customization requirements for Chinese automakers. They rarely adjust products for the overall design of a car. This brings convergence of automotive electronics and other designs. There are many problems.

Under this current situation, domestic independent brand car manufacturers have placed automotive electronics in the corporate strategy of giving priority to development. Domestic auto electronic chips and self-controllable automotive electronics basic software have been listed as key support areas for major national science and technology projects. He Jugang, vice president of the Chongqing Chang'an Automotive Engineering Research Institute, pointed out that automotive electronics chips and basic software are important parts of automotive electronics. They are also not related to the personality of auto brands. They are completely generic and form the characteristics suitable for domestic automotive electronics. The unified automotive electronics chip and basic software standards form a unified and standardized development flow and development tools. At the same time, the repetitive development and repeated verification of automotive electronics hardware and software are all resolved. This will greatly improve the level of research and development in China's automotive electronics.

At the same time, it should be noted that in today's highly integrated hardware, basic software will play a leading role in the development and application of automotive electronics. Zhang Xiaoxian, deputy secretary-general of the CASA Alliance, pointed out that as automobiles continue to be networked and intelligentized, the trend of multiple hardware integration becomes increasingly obvious, hardware costs will gradually decrease, and the functions carried by software will become higher and higher. The model has become more and more unsuitable for development. On the road to seek standardization, the automotive electronics basic software platform will become the main pillar of automotive electronics R&D and application. Zhang Xiaoxian said that foreign automakers are doing platform development, and suppliers like Bosch are also providing standardized products. If domestic automakers or automotive electronics companies are mainly based on self-developed software platforms, they will This leads to two outcomes: one is incompatibility with foreign stuff, and the other is that the cost will be very high. In this situation, there is an urgent need for support from automotive electronics platform software vendors.

The independent electronic intellectual property rights automotive electronics software platform has obvious advantages in terms of localization, personalization, service efficiency and price, which will play a role in promoting China’s automotive electronics industry innovation and driving the overall sustainable development of the automotive electronics industry chain. Crucial role. Fortunately, in the field of automotive electronics basic software, China's indigenous forces have grown stronger and more mature. After two years ago, Puhua Basic Software Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Electronics Technology Group, achieved a breakthrough in independent innovation of automotive electronics software, and its automotive electronics software platform has also obtained a number of OSEK certifications. In addition, the CASA Alliance, which is committed to promoting the independent R&D and industrialization of our automotive electronics infrastructure software, has also exerted an increasing influence. Not only has a number of automakers joined the alliance, AUTOSAR has also participated in the 5th General Assembly. CASA conducted closed-door consultations and the two parties plan to launch a series of cooperation in automotive electronics infrastructure software.

Zhang Xiaoxian, the person in charge of CASA, said: “In the next few years, China will surely have an automotive electronics software company that has grown up and has very mature localized products and services that can provide basic software support and protection for all OEMs.”