Dr. Sugako Otani

ABSTRACT
The automotive industry is in the midst of a significant transformation. “CASE: Connected, Autonomous, Shared & Service, Electric” has been advocated as a trend. Along with this trend, automotive E/E (Electrical/Electronic) architecture will evolve from the current distributed architecture to a domain architecture and then to the future zone architecture in the autonomous driving era. The lecture introduces the requirement of automotive system design for in-vehicle devices and their key technologies, including processors for the infotainment system and advanced vehicle control. The lecture also covers automotive functional safety.

Biography:

Sugako Otani is a system and processor architect at Renesas Electronics Corporation. Her current research focuses on application-specific architectures, ranging from IoT devices to automotive. She joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan, in 1995 after receiving an M.S. in physics from Waseda University, Tokyo. She received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Kanazawa University in 2015. From 2005 to 2006, she was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. She is a committee member of ISSCC, VLSI Symposium, and ESSERC. She is the 2025 Program Chair for VLSI Symposium. Since 2019, she has been a Visiting Associate Professor at Nagoya University, Japan.