Prathap Venugopal, ECS Architecture Group, GM R&D of General Motors

AUTOSAR is the global automotive open system architecture standard used by most of the OEMs (including non traditional). AUTOSAR’s initial inception started in early 2000s. Throughout the years, AUTOSAR has evolved as an universal standard for deeply embedded automotive vehicle control Electronic Control Units (ECU), referred as AUTOSAR Classic. For the past 5 years, AUTOSAR standardization body has reinvented itself to support the growing needs of Automated driving software needs, AUTOSAR Adaptive. This talk will focus details on how AUTOSAR has evolved in these many years, what made AUTOSAR an universally accepted standard, how its architecture will support traditional embedded control ECUs as well as active safety/automated driving heterogeneous computing ECUs and will end with the thoughts on the needs on the collaboration between AUTOSAR Consortium, Industry and Academic Institutions to make the future engineers industry ready.

Biography:

Prathap has Masters in Embedded Systems from SASTRA University, India. Prathap started his carrier with Siemens information systems limited in 2004, writing diagnostics software, communication middleware for CAN, LIN and FlexRay protocols based on both OSEK and AUTOSAR standards. After a brief stint in Continental Automotive, he joined General Motors in 2009 working on Electrical Architectures. He was the lead technical for the AUTOSAR BSW vendor qualification activities. He was the GM representative GM in CF-CCB, Communication (WP-A2) and Acceptance Testing (WP-T1) work packages of AUTOSAR consortium.  After joining R&D 2014, he has been leading the Automotive Ethernet concepts evaluation activities, which includes Ethernet Switches and communication middleware’s based on both classic & Adaptive AUTOSAR. He is the speaker of UCSAR-AUTOSAR NA Regional User Group and also leading Ethernet Subgroup & AUTOSAR-Academic Partnership initiatives.

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