Integrated electronics in the car and the design chain: evolution or revolution?

To deliver better-performing, less-expensive, and safer cars with increasingly tighter time-to-market constraints imposed by worldwide competitiveness, the future development process for automotive electronic systems must provide solutions to: the design of complex functionality with tight requirements on safety and correctness; the design of distributed architectures consisting of several subsystems with constraints on nonfunctional metrics such as cost, power consumption, weight, position, and reliability; and the mapping of the functionality (often implemented as OEM application software) onto the components of a distributed architecture with tight real-time and communication constraints.