Fact Sheet: Autosar

General

Short Description/ Transmitted Information	Applications, SW components, diagnostic and configuration data
Application Scope	- All kinds of vehicles - Non automotive like rail, vessels, power stations, … - No military, hazardous applications and air crafts
Maturity	Productive Usage
Goals	Improve complexity management of integrated E/E architectures through increased reuse and exchangeability of SW modules between OEMs and suppliers.
Penetration	- Individual domains - External collaboration processes
Visibility	>80% (Known throughout product Engineering)
Promoting Bodies	Autosar GbR
Type	Autosar Standard
IT Standard Classification	- Interoperability Standard - Integration Standard
Data Format	Text Format (ASCII/XML)
Relations to other standards	ISO
Overlap with other standards	ASAM

AVAILABLE ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION

Many like Bosch, ETAS, Conti, EB, Vector, Mentor, Denso

Use Cases, Guidelines, Best Practice Examples see www.autosar.org

AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecure) …

is a worldwide development partnership of car manufacturers, suppliers and other companies from the electronics, semiconductor and software industry with more than 280 partner companies
aims to improve complexity management of integrated E/E architectures through increased reuse and exchangeability of SW modules between OEMs and suppliers.
provides the specification for a standardized SW architecture for automotive electronic control units considering configurability and scalability to different vehicle - and platform variants,
supports safe solutions according to ASIL D (ISO26262) and provides methodology and features to implement secure solutions
enables collaboration between various partners based on formalized, template based data exchange
considers updates during lifetime also over the air and
enables maintainability throughout the whole product life cycle.