AUTOSAR – The Worldwide

Automotive Standard for

E/E Systems

Enabling Innovation
 AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) is a partnership between
automotive manufacturers, suppliers and tool and semiconductor vendors. Since
2003 AUTOSAR has been working on the development of an open, standardized
software architecture for automotive electronic control units (ECUs).

The AUTOSAR development partnership is fo-

Principle of
AUTOSAR
AUTOSAR has the principle
“Cooperate on standards,
compete on implementa-
tion”. As the delivery of
implementations – in
particular implementa-
tions of basic software and
tooling – must be enabled
and supported worldwide,
the best quality and service
is expected in free competi-
tion on implementation
level.
AUTOSAR – The Idea
The AUTOSAR standard consists of a set of speci-
fications that describe a software architecture,
application interfaces and a methodology. The
AUTOSAR layered software architecture ena-
bles the development of independent software
components. These can be used in vehicles
of different manufacturers, and in electronic
components of different suppliers that can
cused on managing the growing complexity in
the development of automotive electric/elec-
tronic (E/E) architecture, with the aim to improve
development efficiency – without making com-
promises on quality. AUTOSAR paves the way
for innovative electronic systems that further
improve performance, safety and environmental
friendliness.
span multiple product generations. It re-
sults in a high reliability of the overall system
with significant cost and capacity benefits.
The AUTOSAR principle “Cooperate on standards,
compete on implementation” offers various ben-
efits to automotive manufacturers, automotive
suppliers, tool providers, and even new market
entrants.

Autosar
– The Vision

AUTOSAR aims to improve

complexity management of
integrated E/E architectures
through increased reuse
and transferability of SW
modules between OEMs
and suppliers.

Benefits of Autosar
The realization of the AUTOSAR industry standard will provide significant benefits for
OEMs, suppliers, semiconductor vendors as well as for tool and service providers and new
market entrants.
BENefits for OEM:
Establish development distribution
among suppliers
Compete on innovative functions with
increased design flexibility
Simplify software and system integra-
tion
Reduce overall software development
costs
Benefits for tool provider:
Tool based development process and
standardized exchange formats
AUTOSAR – The Global Automotive Software Standard
Many OEMs and suppliers rely on the standard and are introducing AUTOSAR in a wide
range of applications. 25 million ECUs produced by the AUTOSAR Core Partners in 2011 are
based on the AUTOSAR architecture, with 300 million planned for 2016.
Benefits for supplier:
Reduce implementation variability
using an industry wide standard
Reuse software modules across OEMs
Increase efficiency of application de-
velopment
Invent new business models
Benefits for new market • Work on new car domains in the field
entrant:
Enable new business models by means
of standardized interfaces
Enabling Innovation
AUTOSAR – Key Milestones
Phase I (2003-2006)
• AUTOSAR was founded as a develop-
ment partnership in 2003
• Release 1.0: AUTOSAR specifications
for basic software below the runtime
environment (RTE) level
• Release 2.0 and 2.1: completion of
Basic Software (BSW) components
and the RTE
• With Release 2.1 and Release 3.0/3.1,
the majority of members started their
series roll-out of AUTOSAR
Phase II (2007-2009)
• Release 3.0: harmonization of the ECU
wake-up and the network start-up
• Release 3.1: incorporation of On-
Board-Diagnostics (OBD) regulations
support mechanisms
• First ECUs based on AUTOSAR have
entered production in 2008
• Release 4.0: new features for functional
safety and communication
of application interfaces: “Telematics/
Multimedia/HMI” and “Occupants and
Pedestrian Safety Systems”
Phase III (2010-2012)
• Release 3.2.1 and 4.0.3: incorporation
of Partial Networking
• General Objectives:
• Maintenance of existing releases
• Selective enhancement of the
standard driven by market needs
• Improve maintainability of
the standard
Post phase III (from 2013 onwards)
• Selective, market-driven enhance-
ments and extensions to the standard
with focus on stabilization, limited
number of parallel Releases and excel-
lent match of series development
requirements
• Release 4.1 Revision 1 (planned to be
published in March 2013): AUTOSAR
will introduce about 30 new concepts
for enhanced functionality and main-
tainability, usability and compliance
• Enhanced features for new technolo-
gies like multi-core processors,
Ethernet/TCP/IP communication
mechanisms and others
How to become an AUTOSAR member:

For further information please visit www.autosar.org

Send an e-mail to request@autosar.org to receive the AUTOSAR information package.
Become a member and avail exploitation rights for the AUTOSAR Standard.

Members of the AUTOSAR Development Partnership

(Status: December 2011)

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