Under the wave of new four modernizations of automobiles, software is the core of differentiated competition in smart electric car , and its importance in cars is becoming increasingly prominent. Whether it is the former CEO of Volkswagen Group , or the chairman and president of BYD , Wang Chuanfu , have publicly stated many times that software will dominate the next competition. To this end, traditional car companies have continued to make arrangements in the software field in the past few years.
CASE new four modernizations, picture source: Raikede
However, the first move of traditional car companies did not bring advantageous effects, and the "shortcomings" in software make them still face various problems in the actual promotion process. Automotive software solution providers with "natural advantages" have also seen a broad incremental market under the development of networking and intelligence, and continue to broaden their business boundaries. Among them, Leccode actively carried out related explorations based on the rich experience accumulated in automotive software development over the past 14 years to help reshape the software development system in the automotive industry.
It is understood that as an automotive software service provider, Leccode can currently provide full-chain software-defined automotive engineering related services from industry consulting to mass production implementation, from forward-looking research to large-scale development, from product design and development to code generation and deployment, from process system design to software development team construction, and achieve solid implementation. At the same time, the concepts and methods of agile development are also introduced into the automotive software development process, and through the methodology, system design, structure and tool platform that has been put into mass production and has been verified, it helps OEMs and Tier1 to face the transformation of the automotive industry.
launched a multi-product combination punch
aims at the key to the automotive industry in response to the transformation of software-defined automobiles. Leccod's solutions have covered four major areas: central computing, autonomous driving, intelligent networking, and digital cockpit.
Specifically, from the future-oriented integrated vehicle-cloud architecture EEA, SOA that meets the end-to-end needs of mass production, cross-domain heterogeneous OEM.OS, big data platform, OTA, to how to improve its own market competitiveness through personalized and intelligent cockpit user experience, they are all product directions of Leccod Automobile business.
Overview of the main service-oriented solutions of Raikede Automobile business, picture source: Raikede
Especially in recent years, the emergence of advanced technologies and products such as HPC, Zone, Container, Microservices, Middleware, OS has brought huge changes to the electronic and electrical architecture and software architecture of the whole vehicle. The traditional signal-based software architecture can no longer control the new software scale, and the service-oriented SOA architecture has been introduced into the automotive industry.
Based on this, Leccod also simultaneously added support for SOA, and focused on defining and establishing E/E systems and software architectures. By integrating SOA architecture design with the classic EEA architecture development process, integrating concepts such as vehicle-cloud integration/Container with classic EEA vehicle architecture, Leccode broke the development dimension wall class from discrete architecture to Domian architecture, and provided a development method of software-defined architecture and iterative evolution. While providing consulting services and technical roadmap to the OEMs, it helps the OEMs develop and implement its future-oriented architecture based on the large-scale architectural concept of electronic appliances + software platform + cloud architecture + ecological construction. Helps it create the best way to an open integrated architecture, as well as a complete process system, tool chain and workflow. Lay the foundation for software-defined cars.
At the same time, at the software architecture level, Leccod can provide cross-domain heterogeneous software platform architecture design and corresponding development. For the underlying logic, top-level design and commercial stack selection of centralized central computing platform software architecture, Leccod can provide high-value consulting services to OEM customers. It is worth mentioning that based on the successful CarOS case in Europe and North America, Leccod also demonstrates differentiation in platform consistency to achieve unique value points for customers.
In addition, collaboration with SOA at the system function level can also realize the service of the software platform at the development level, and customize software modules (platform services) that are independent of the function set, loosely coupled between services, and portable across hardware, gradually moving towards the implementation of the vehicle software platform.It is not just simple development, but also customized development and consultative development.
According to Leccoder, its E/E architecture and SOA guidance plan will ensure that OEMs can handle large amounts of data demand from autonomous vehicles in the future. At present, the company is helping a famous domestic car company develop a vehicle cloud architecture with Tier1 as a tool for data-driven software transformation.
Currently, Leccod has completed its cooperation with SAIC Zero Band, which has successfully helped SAIC launch its leading domestic SOA-based developer platform, and is cooperating with CARIAD, a subsidiary of Volkswagen. It is reported that Leccode's OEM.OS is equivalent to providing car companies with an infrastructure, and the OEM and its Tier1 can plan and deploy future applications based on this platform, as well as add additional functions to the ECU. At the same time, a universal OEM.OS can also help customers continuously improve and improve their TCO.
data-driven development, image source: Raikode
In addition, given the importance of simulation testing in promoting the implementation of autonomous driving, Raikode has built a smart driving platform solution based on the cloud-native service of AD applications and continues to support customers in data-driven development. It has established partnerships with advanced OEMs since 2016, including through the provision of consulting, functions and the DevOps team to help customers securely integrate and convert their processes and toolchains into scalable development services. At the same time, the cloud's super-large-scale capabilities can also be used to flexibly expand the requirements of ADAS and AD projects.
According to Leccode, its smart driving platform solution can improve cost control and R&D efficiency for customers while accelerating the development of production-grade AD and reducing customer supplier costs.
In terms of advanced diagnosis and OTA, Leccoder's solutions can conduct vehicle diagnosis for customers based on SOA HPC environment. The consulting services provided cover the entire cycle of business model from generation to product implementation, and include diagnostic cases: remote repair, remote production and predictive maintenance, SOTA, digital life cycle management, etc.
It is understood that this solution can be developed and tested with the environment through agile methods, integrated with the AUTOSAR Adaptive, MCVP, AWS platforms, and can be integrated into the cloud/backend systems and processes of the OEM. At the same time, this solution is not bound to any platform.
is the smart cockpit sector that is most easily perceived by users and can be the first to land. Leccod brings together its experience and capabilities in key areas such as user research and insights, UXUI strategy definition, UXUI creative concepts, mass production execution, 3D HMI solutions, VR/AR solutions, process optimization and testing in high-end vehicle systems, and launches UXD overall solution to provide the OEMs and their major partners with interconnected, personalized and overall digital cockpit human-computer interaction experience. And, it can be deployed locally based on needs and scaled to collaborative methods such as providing support from global expert teams. At present, its OEM customers include Mercedes-Benz , BMW , Toyota , FAW Hongqi, BAIC, etc.
LUVRE – Real-time real-life HMI test in VR, picture source: Leccode
. Considering the trend of software-defined automobiles, more and more car companies have been oriented towards user experience in the past two years and are transforming into software-driven enterprises. Especially with the pressure of "race" in the new car market, the product iteration speed of OEMs is getting faster and faster, which puts higher requirements on the software development capabilities of enterprises.
Agile development method, Image source: Raikode
In order to meet this demand, Raikode is also actively helping host factories build a "software factory". Based on the transformation experience of domestic and foreign host factories and parts companies, it helps enterprises establish the governance model, management system and development team required by modern automotive software engineering companies to ensure the continuous and rapid delivery of high-quality software.
It is also worth mentioning that in response to the overseas overseas needs of domestic customers, Leccod can also provide them with relevant consulting services, covering overseas road laws and regulations support, road test design and services, etc.At the same time, Leccod can also provide support for the localization of overseas vehicles of domestic customers, including three major overseas voice applications (amazon alexa, Microsoftml2, Google Assistant 2). In the field of automotive application platform research and development, Leccod has also provided technical service support for BMW ReachNow's research and development.
builds a broad "circle of friends"
How did Raikode break through the technical barriers and make this product combination punch?
In fact, behind it is 14 years of experience in the automotive industry, globalization strategy and more than 3,000 mature talents with solid industry experience, escorting the development and implementation of their products.
, and sufficient industry experience advantages and talent echelon construction also helped Rickold build a broad "circle of friends".
The main customer of Raikode Automobile business, picture source: Raikode
Among them, Raikode and CARIAD, an automotive software company under Volkswagen Group, reached a cooperation on May 24, 2022 to provide it with automotive software development, testing and integration services. Leccoder will support CARIAD to achieve its strategic goal of creating a unified and scalable software platform for all Volkswagen Group’s passenger car brands, including embedded software platform (VW.OS), Volkswagen Group Auto Cloud (VW.AC) and big data services, aiming to support the data-driven business model and innovation development of all Volkswagen brands in . Based on this platform, users can also get 7×24 all-weather connections, create higher surplus value, and shorter downtime.
At the same time, Raikold will also train thousands of software engineers for CARIAD. This innovative and collaborative approach will not only ensure that Raikold helps Volkswagen bring solutions to market faster with state-of-the-art delivery and usability services, but will also provide first-class user experience to customers of all brands of Volkswagen.
In this regard, CARIAD CEO Dirk Hilgenberg said: "Leik is reliable and forward-looking in testing and integration services. It will help our software platform and components development, as well as the development of state-of-the-art functions and usability."
Leikold provides automotive software development, testing and integration services for CARIAD. Image source: CARIAD
. In the field of smart driving platforms, BMW is currently the main customer of Leikold. Leikold provides BMW with an AD R&D platform based on driverless driving.
It is understood that the high-performance data platform has a storage capacity of more than 230PB and can collect more than 1,500TB of raw data per day. Based on more than 200 GPUs and more than 100,000 cores, the smart driving platform developed by Leccod has achieved the challenge of reprocessing 2 million kilometers of field data and 240 million kilometers of virtual data. In addition, 50PB of HiLs can be tested in real-time simulation every two weeks.
It is worth mentioning that this platform can enable more than 1,000 developers from BMW and its suppliers to carry out development operations simultaneously. In addition, with the fixed SOP time nodes of AD projects, Leccode defeated the pressure of time and cost, achieved project delivery and operation based on KPI, and also provided experience and foundation for the implementation of subsequent products.
Leccod provides BMW with an AD R&D platform based on unmanned driving. Image source: Leccod
At the moment when large screens and multiple screens are increasingly becoming one of the selling points of intelligent connected car , Leccod has actually accumulated a lot. Behind Mercedes-Benz's EQS super-connected screen, Leccod is the figure of Leccod.
According to Leccoder, he participated in the entire process of Mercedes-Benz EQS superconnection software from design to mass production. Especially in user experience design, Leccoder helped Mercedes-Benz to design a unique user experience and a flexible platform-based HMI system that can be applied to different screen sizes and brand specifications.
Specifically, Leccoder and Mercedes-Benz have created world-class UX/UI benchmarks, design specifications and graphics assets for implementation and style guidance, designed user interface animations, etc., and provided UI specifications/documents for central control and various on-board displays, in addition to efficient and cost-optimized design and workflows.
is more than that. In fact, Raikold has gained more than 40 OEMs and Tier1 customers in the automotive industry.
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