Using Hybrid Prototyping for Early Collaboration in the Automotive Supply Chain

In recent years, the development cycles of new ECUs in the automotive domain have significantly accelerated. Software development and hardware assessment have become an iterative, simultaneous process and require close execution-based collaboration throughout the supply chain to avoid costly design mismatches between software and hardware. An essential part of this endeavor is the understanding, planning and execution of the applied collaboration model between the parties and the availability of design artefacts. Deploying such a solution into existing company setups with distributed development teams pose additional demands for ensuring fast and easy adoption by the developers involved.

In this session we will present the application of hybrid prototyping for enabling early model-based collaboration and verification of critical IP while maintaining a decoupled working mode between software and 3rd party hardware teams. We will outline the requirements for running such a setup with different suppliers considering scalability and flexibility aspects.