Today in The Garage, we look at automotive from a different perspective; the silicon perspective, and our guest today is from NXP Semiconductor, Brian Carlson, Head of Global Marketing for Automotive Processing. 

In this episode, Part 2 of a two-part series, we continue the conversation from Part 1 and look into the future of vehicles, such as zonal architectures, collaboration in many other aspects. 

Links referenced in this episode:

• NXP S32 Automotive Platform: https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers/s32-automotive-platform:S32
• Joint NXP/Sonatus webinar on zonal architecture: https://mobex.io/webinars/accelerating-the-automotive-shift-to-zonal-architectures/
• Sonatus expert Jim Murphy on Sonatus Zonal Architecture Solution: https://www.sonatus.com/blog/sonatus-zonal-architecture-solution/
• NXP blog on Zonal architecture: https://www.nxp.com/company/blog/how-zonal-e-e-architectures-with-ethernet-are-enabling-software-defined-vehicles:BL-HOW-ZONAL-EE-ARCHITECTURES?cid

Chapters:

00:00 Overview

00:33 NXP working with Sonatus on vehicle software

02:24 The Sonatus Vehicle Platform

03:03 Automotive software-defined networks 

04:28 Zonal architectures 

05:50 NXP S32Z and NXP S32E for Zonal architectures

08:51 Ensuring a smooth transition from existing CAN architectures

11:13 The gradual transition to Zonal architectures via “body zonal”

12:56 Supporting clean slate or incremental vehicle evolution

14:33 Evolution of S32 family and the NXP S32N

15:15 Developing on virtual S32N in the cloud today

17:19 Collaboration and safety-awareness is critical 

19:08 Two key points

19:51 Conclusion