Analysis: E/E Architecture Trends to Support the Transition to the SDV

Explore the shift to zonal architectures driving smarter, faster, and more efficient software-defined vehicles.

Vehicle Electrical/Electronic Architectures (EEAs) are evolving from distributed to highly centralized and integrated systems. The reason for this change is that combining resources and centralizing information processing will improve vehicle decision-making efficiency, enable faster iteration speeds, and reduce overall costs, and serve to provide the hardware underpinnings of the software-defined vehicle . This report examines the shift from domain-based to zonal architectures, focusing on the related system and semiconductor outlook.