The economic competitiveness of the
European Automotive Embedded Software
industry:
HOW CAN EUROPEAN POLICIES HELP?
Brussels
28 April 2010
Dr. Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos
Embedded systems
DG Information Society and Media
European Commission, Brussels
The automotive sector
• a key industrial sector for Europe
• direct employment of over 2 million persons
• indirect employment of another 10 million persons
• one of largest RTD investors in the EU
(over €20B/year, ca.5% of its turnover)
Electronics for the automotive sector
• Europe is strong – we must maintain strengths
• Strong European ICT Research Funding:
• Embedded software & microelectronics in the automotive
• JTIS: ARTEMIS, ENIAC
• E-transport and infrastructure
• fully electric vehicle initiative
Examples of FP research projects in automotive
embedded software
• DG INFSO has funded numerous research
projects related to automotive embedded
software in the past.
• Typical FP examples are:
– CEMACS (2004-2007)
– DYSCAS (2006-2009)
– HARTES (2006-2010)
CEmACS
Complex Embedded Automotive Control Systems
(2004 -2007)
• Multivariable control analysis
and design techniques
• Implementation in the experimental vehicles
•Validation using a specified set of test manoeuvres
•Roll-over mitigation
•Collision avoidance by active steering
DySCAS
Dynamically Self-Configuring Automotive Systems
(2006-2009)
•Development of a reference middleware architecture that, unlike the
common static design time configurations, is able to adapt itself after
its production (in driving, stand-still or in the workshop) to changing
internal and external conditions.
•Implementations have been realized based on several different realtime operating systems, networks and processors.
HARTES
Holistic Approach to Reconfigurable Real Time Embedded Systems
• Advanced Car Information
Systems (Next generation
Infotainment)
• The hardware in the car lab
uses a variety of general
purpose processors and
reconfigurable processors
• The applications are
processed through the
HARTES tool chain
• The algorithms and
synthesizers are validated
and demonstrated inside the
car
Project examples beyond software:
next generations of hardware
for automotive applications
Future software applications will be driven by the availability of mixed signal
systems on the chip with extended specifications, e.g. low cost/power, high
frequency, voltage and temperature ranges.
ATHENIS Automotive Tested High Voltage Embedded Non-volatile memory Integrated SoC
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Integrated technology platform that meets all of the harshest automotive reliability requirements. It
enables full SoC integration of powertrain ICs for engines, starters, alternators, etc.
Combination of harshest requirements include full reverse polarity capability at the low cost of CMOS,
application voltages up to 120V, currents up to 10A, temperatures up to 200°C, embedded non-volatile
memory (eNVM), chip-level ESD of 8kV HBM, all in combination with high logic gate densities.
Innovative add-on technology modules such as reverse polarity HVCMOS and novel MEMS based NVM
modules
E3CAR: Nanoelectronics for an Energy Efficient Electrical Car
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Development of nanoelectronics technologies, devices, circuits architectures and modules for electrical
cars/vehicles and demonstration of these modules in a final systems.
Specification and development of power and high voltage electronics and smart miniaturized systems for
power management, engine control and energy recovery systems, based on the voltage/current range of
needed modules.
DOTFIVE: Towards 0.5 TeraHertz Silicon/Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Technology
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Establish a firm position in Europe for silicon-germanium heterojunction bipolar transistors (SiGe HBTs) for
millimetre wave applications.
Allow microwave applications into silicon in contrast to other types of semiconductors that have been
used, that are more expensive and do not allow large device integration.
The European Green Car Initiative:
part of the
European Economic Recovery Plan
• “To support innovation in manufacturing, construction and in
the automobile sector, …. which face significant challenges in
the transition to the green economy…”
• 3 Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) :
- European energy efficient buildings initiative
- Factories of the future initiative
- European green car initiative
European Green Cars Initiative:
a package of €5 billion
• Research on greening road transport : €1billion
• EIB loans in support of industrial innovation
Budget: €4 billion (in addition to existing loans)
• Demand side measures : regulatory action by
Member States and the EC on e.g. lower registration taxes,
incentives for scrapping old cars, and public procurement
European Green Cars Initiative:
How will research be funded?
• Budget: €1 billion co-financed by the EC and the
private sector (PPP)
• Implemented as a cross programme
initiative:
– 2010-2013
– €500 million EC funding from NMP, ICT,
Transport, Energy, Environment FP7 themes
(NMP: Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies)
A specific ICT focus: “Fully Electric Vehicle and
its infrastructure ” 2010-2013
Overall research areas and research needs :
* energy storage
* drive train
* vehicle concepts and integration
* grid integration and interfaces
* EV integration in transport system
Specific ICT areas in next 2 calls for proposals in 2010-11 (60m EC funding):
 Energy/Power Storage Systems
 Architectures for Energy, Communication and Thermal Management
 Vehicle-to-Grid interface
 Vehicle Stability Control for vehicles with 2, 3 or 4 electrical motors
 Electric Drive and Electronic Components
 Integration of the FEV in the cooperative transport infrastructure
We look forward to the results of this study
• Decarbonisation of transport is disruptive
– Disruptive in terms of technologies, business models,
employment
• Green car is de-facto a huge challenge for
electronics and software
• Quantify the amount and importance of the
software in the electric car
– Market data
– Players including innovative SMEs
– Future projections, new value chain, new entrants
• Very challenging policy mix (including on R&D) to
be successful in this disruption
Longer term: Policy support indicators
• ICT increasingly present outside the ICT sector
• Significant ICT research investments are done outside the
ICT sector
• Automotive is a prime example.
• Need to develop policy-support indicators that capture
accurately and timely this complex phenomenon
• Previous work between INFSO and IPTS has provided
important insights that we need to develop further
Thank You!
Email: Panagiotis.Tsarchopoulos@ec.europa.eu