Components and tooling to reduce complexity and cost in E/E powertrain system design for hybrid electric vehicles

When designing an energy efficient and highly reliable hybrid electric vehicle, the complexity of the electronic/electrical systems and the amount of such systems embedded tends to dramatically increase. Indeed rapid adoption of emerging technologies is required. Consequently, the cost of the solution does not meet the expectations for an affordable and innovative vehicle. The solution, introduced in this paper, proposes to group functions within fewer but more capable and scalable ECU relying on a powerful and flexible MCU. The solution comes with a development framework shortening the development cycles and enabling both design scalability and optimizations in terms of efficiency, complexity and cost.