Adaptive AUTOSAR in a nutshell

Quick facts:

• Adaptive AUTOSAR is standardization of the AUTOSAR runtime for Adaptive Applications (ARA)
• The standard contains two types of interfaces; services and APIs
• The AUTOSAR Adaptive standard is released two times a year — end of March and end of October
• First release of the standard was in March 2017 (17–03)
• Standardization is done by AUTOSAR Consortium which has members from almost every automotive company

What does it contain?

The standard contains interfaces required for developing future automotive ECUs (Electronic Control Units) running on state-of-the-art multicore microprocessors. These interfaces allow OEMs, as in the car manufacturers, to implement autonomous driving, over-the-air software updates, IoT (Internet of Things) features, media streaming and other services to their future cars. Compared to AUTOSAR Classic, the Adaptive platform allows dynamic linking of services and clients during ECU runtime which makes it much more flexible for the application developers. Platform also utilizes C++14 to allow feature rich and fast development of ARA applications.