Side view of a futuristic silver car with transparent body overlay showing internal components and orange glowing circuit lines. The highlighted elements represent integrated high-performance computing architecture for advanced vehicle functions.

Vehicle Control HPC

High-Performance Computers

The Vehicle Control High-Performance Computer (VC HPC) is the central platform for the integration of safety and non-safety critical applications in the body, chassis & motion, energy management, and powertrain area.

Benefits & features

  • Flexible and scalable integration platform for cross-domain applications and services from various parties
  • Host for body, safety and motion, energy management and powertrain applications up to safety level ASIL-D
  • Host for central data acquisition and cloud/IoT services
  • Heterogeneous, secure and safe multi operating system environment
  • Support for the rapidly increasing demand for secure communication bandwidth based on latest network technologies
  • Central instance for all over-the-air software updates and upgrades of the vehicle and offers an extended range of vehicle diagnostic features
Close-up view of a vehicle control high-performance computer (HPC) unit with a robust metallic housing and integrated cooling fins. The design includes multiple mounting points and two connector ports on the front side for power and data interfaces. The structure emphasizes durability and heat dissipation for advanced automotive control systems.

Technical data

  • Support for heterogeneous computer systems by using a scalable System on Chip (SoC) family supporting Operating Systems for real-time computing (Classic AUTOSAR)
  • Operating Systems for high-performance computing (Adaptive AUTOSAR, Linux, QNX, Java VM)
  • Hardware and software support for a holistic virtualization concept
  • Implementation of various in-vehicle physical networks with a flexible number of various CAN standards, LIN, MultiGig Ethernet and even Flexray as an option
  • Hardware accelerated routing and crypto algorithms
  • Adaptable mechanical housing and cooling concept