MDG1: The New, Scalable, and Powerful ECU Platform from Bosch

Bosch is developing an all new, scalable, and powerful platform of electronic control units (ECU) for powertrain control; launch date will be end of 2014. With this, Bosch will introduce a new powerful microcontroller generation from three different suppliers with multi-core technology which will fulfill future demands with regard to computational power. Besides this and several other innovations in hardware, Bosch will introduce a fully Autosar 4.0 compliant base software and step-by-step an Autosar 4.0 compliant application software. Our customers will have a chance to realize a seamless transition to the new ECU platform and introduce Autosar on individual timescales. Other functional enhancements will, for example, be in the field of vehicle-wide energy management. With MDG1 not only innovations in hardware and software will be introduced but in the area of processes as well. We will introduce IT standards in order to improve efficiency particularly with the integration of customer software (software sharing) and model-based development for the application software. This will bring the development efficiency—particularly for the cooperation with our customers—to a new level. With the new MDG1 Bosch will set a new standard in the market.