ZTE Zhang Xiaoyu: Focus on the core advantages of ICT and empower the rapid upgrading of the automotive industry

Jiwei Network News, on December 24, under the guidance of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology and Pudong New Area Science and Technology Commission, the "First Jiwei Automotive Semiconductor Ecological Summit" hosted by China Semiconductor Investment Alliance and undertaken by Zhangjiang Hi-Tech and Aijiwei was officially held in Shanghai. Zhang Xiaoyu, chief engineer of automotive electronics line intelligent driving of ZTE Co., Ltd., delivered a speech with the theme of "Focusing on the Core Advantages of ICT and Empowering the Rapid Upgrading of the Automotive Industry".

Strong accumulation of ICT technology

At present, ZTE has gone through 36 years from the beginning of the distant 1G analog voice era, to the era of 4G mobile Internet has achieved a parallel start with the world's top ICT companies, under the guidance of the concept of "digital economy road builder, to build the ultimate cloud company", adhere to the basic scientific and technological innovation, the current R & D investment of more than 10 billion yuan for 6 consecutive years, of which last year's R & D investment of 14.8 billion yuan, revenue accounted for 14.6%, with more than 80,000 global patents, 5G SEP patents in the world's top three, More than 38,000 patents have been granted.

ZTE Corporation Automotive Electronics Line Intelligent Driving Chief Engineer Zhang Xiaoyu

It can be said that ZTE's long-term deep cultivation in the field of ICT has laid a solid technical foundation for enterprises to enter and expand the automotive electronics track. Zhang Xiaoyu said that ZTE can rely on the company's capabilities in the ICT field to help customers succeed, becoming a digital vehicle basic capability provider and a domestic independent controllable and high-performance partner: "We are aware of the opportunity for domestic independent chips to be applied in the automotive industry, and we are willing to empower the automotive industry based on the experience accumulated over the years of ICT." ”

ZTE's positioning in the automotive electronics industry is committed to providing relevant basic software and hardware products and services for automobile manufacturers to "electrify, network and intelligent", and the company's four subsidiaries InBev Supercomputing (Nanjing), ZTE Intelligent Automobile (Zhuhai), ZTE New Energy Vehicle (Shenzhen), Guangdong New Fulcrum (Guangzhou) and so on have R&D layout around the automotive electronics industry.

Win-win with automotive OEMs

In the "Automotive Electronics CEA Architecture" lecture section, Zhang Xiaoyu focused on the theme of "ZTE and OEM to build CEA architecture together to meet the SDV challenge", elaborated on the domain control and gateway software framework and communication mode under the CEA architecture, this method has two main characteristics, intelligent driving/cockpit/UCU/ZCU underlying based on MCU/SoC heterogeneous chips and multi-operating systems, software using SOA architecture; domain control/UCU/ZCU between the backbone network is mainly Ethernet. It also supports connecting sensors/execution architectures via CAN/LIN, etc. Correspondingly, ZTE has a strong technical accumulation in the field of automotive electronics, cutting into automotive electronics with the advantage of cockpit chips, actively participating in the preliminary research of related technologies, patenting layout for Ethernet, TSN and other technologies, and has strong technical accumulation.

Zhang Xiaoyu also pointed out that ZTE has the domestic TOP2 industrial OS research and development and product capabilities, tens of millions of product delivery and communication industry applications, and actively layout the vehicle/vehicle control OS, in terms of basic software development, ZTE self-developed AUTOSAR AP platform and SOA framework middleware, cooperation with partners AUTOSAR CP platform and tool chain, and TG communication and AI capabilities cloud, tube, terminal AI experience, video, voice applications, A series of technologies such as big data and AI fusion platform have accumulated and advantages

Both can help ZTE build the CEA architecture together with automakers on a deep and multi-dimensional basis.

In the section "UCU Universal Computing Controller", Zhang Xiaoyu focused on the technical characteristics of the UCU of the general computing controller and the SOA functional architecture of the UCU software. As a universal computing center for the whole vehicle, UCU integrates logical calculations such as central gateway, body control, battery management and power controller based on SOA software architecture to improve reusability.

After talking about ZTE's layout in the "ZCU Area Controller", Zhang Xiaoyu also talked about the overall framework of ZTE's automotive electronics GoldenSAR platform. The GoldenSAR platform adopts a layered architecture design idea, including the basic software platform AUTOSR and SOA Framework Middleware; GoldenSAR is a layered, open, and extensible platform that supports OEM and Tier1 collaborative development.

ZTE adheres to the consistent concept of "openness, innovation, cooperation and win-win", and with the help of its own technology accumulation in the ICT field, it will take steps to empower the rapid upgrading of the automotive industry. ZTE enters the automotive electronics, the future, do not wait.

(Proofreading/Jenny)