From Electronic Design Automation to Automotive Design Automation

Abstract

Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous functions, and connected applications bring a revolution to automotive systems, but they also make automotive design, especially software and electronics, more complex than ever. The complexity introduces significant challenges to automotive industry, and thus design automation, model-based design, and platform-based design can assist system designers to verify design correctness, improve design quality, accelerate design development, reduce design cost, and prevent redesign or recall. Sharing similar concepts with electronic design automation, automotive design automation can be categorized into three core parts: modeling, design (including synthesis and optimization), and analysis (including verification, simulation, and testing).