A Hypervisor-Based Solution for Automotive Applications

Abstract

The new technologies in automotive increase the complexity of vehicle’s electrical and electronics (E/E) architecture and add new requirements for connected software systems. The number of Electronic Control Units (ECUs) is constantly increasing with over 100 ECUs in a modern vehicle. This research focus on studying how to apply virtualization technology in automotive software. It was found that hardware-assisted virtualization could be used as an e cient approach to consolidate a real-time application and a Linux application to run on the same hardware. The hard real timing requirements of realtime application were met as CPU load only increased by 0.2%. This is the overhead added to run the basic functionalities of operating system in virtualized environment. Moreover, there were no porting e orts to run an operating system that already runs natively on the target hardware.

The thesis is divided into seven chapters as listed below:

Chapter 1

This chapter gives and introduction on the motivations of this research and the objectives of this study.

Chapter 2

This chapter studies the AUTOSAR software architecture and presents how it is used to satisfy automotive software requirements.