Accelerate Automotive Collaboration using Interconnected Virtual Embedded Development Targets on AWS

This article discusses how virtualization and cross-supplier collaboration using virtual embedded development targets (vEDTs) on AWS can accelerate automotive software development. It showcases an architecture with vEDTs from ETAS and Panasonic Automotive interconnected using AWS Transit Gateway, enabling earlier software integration and testing.

Specifically, the article covers:

• The challenges of traditional automotive software development with late integration across the multi-tier supplier ecosystem
• Benefits of using vEDTs and vEEs (virtual electrical and electronic architectures) to shift software development and integration left
• An architecture with vEDTs from ETAS and Panasonic Automotive interconnected via AWS Transit Gateway, allowing cross-supplier collaboration without IP exposure
• Detailed steps to set up secure cross-account and cross-region communication between vEDTs using AWS services like Transit Gateway and Resource Access Manager
• Enabling multicast communication (required for automotive protocols like SOME/IP) across vEDTs using Transit Gateway Multicast support
• Outlook on integrating local Hardware-in-the-Loop setups and potential to reshape traditional automotive development processes