Software functions in vehicles are growing by the day. Add to it its combined strength with the intelligence of sensor information is known to give rise to the driver-assist functions. These driver functions are the hotbed for comfort, added safety and perhaps extended range when driving electrically. Coming off age, in comparison to the traditional vehicle architectures, wherein the exchange is mainly in the decentralised Electronic Control Units (ECUs). It lays the foundation for a dramatic change in Electric and Electronic (E/E) architecture. The future entails the bundling of the computing power and the main software functions in a few domain or zone controllers. The ProAI, displayed at Auto Shanghai 2021, for the first time, is claimed to meet the manufacturers' requirements for software-defined vehicles and their new E/Earchitectures. Stated Oliver Briemle, Head of L4 Feature Development, Domain Control and V2X at ZF, “The ZF ProAI is currently the most flexible, scalable, and powerful automotive-grade supercomputer in the world.” Briemle deemed it suitable for any vehicle type and all levels of automated and autonomous driving: from Level 2 to Level 5.
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