Semcon involved in research project

Semcon is involved in a project to design new electrical architecture for vehicles in the Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation Initiative (FFI) program. The new electrical architecture is needed to support technology for active safety, data communication, functional safety, power management and to cut the environmental impact.

The project will run until 2012 and is an investment with the backing of state-run Vinnova as its main sponsor. The project is being carried out by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s Embedded control systems group, Chalmers Dependable Real-Time Systems Group and Volvo Cars together with three development companies, of which Semcon’s company, EIS by Semcon is one. “The Swedish automotive industry is in the vanguard of electrical architecture,” says Stig Ursing, coordinator for Semcon’s part in the “Dependable and flexible architecture 2020” collaboration. “Our part of the project is to take responsibility for new methods, develop new communication technologies, reduce the use of power and reference architecture. As Semcon is also involved in developing a new international standard, ISO 26262, the implementation of the standard in electrical architecture will also be part of the project.” The objective is for the electrical architecture to be available on the market by 2020. In addition to technology research, EIS by Semcon, which also has extensive experience of architectural design, will be adapting the architecture so that the technology can be industrialized for other industries.