Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV)
An engineering-track overview of software-defined vehicle architecture and what it changes about requirements engineering, systems engineering, and release practice in automotive organizations moving away from fixed ECU-per-function designs.
Course Overview
Introduction to Software-Defined Vehicles helps professionals understand and navigate the shift towards Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs). This course offers a clear definition of SDV, along with real-world applications and use cases. It also explores the underlying technologies that play a key role in SDV.
Is This Course Right For You?
This course is ideal for:
If you're already an experienced practitioner in this area, our Advanced-level courses may be a better fit than this Foundation-level course.
What You'll Be Able To Do
Software-defined vehicles utilize a central computer to oversee various aspects of the vehicle, including performance, safety features, and user experience. This innovative architecture provides enhanced flexibility, efficiency, and customization options. Upon completion of the course, participants will have a deeper comprehension of the ongoing transformations within the automotive industry, and the influential role of software-defined vehicles in shaping the future of transportation — within manufacturing facilities and on the roads.
- What is an SDV?
- SDV from different perspectives
- Challenges
- SDV domains
- SDV enabled feature examples
How You'll Use This At Work
Explain the foundational concepts and architecture of SDVs, including challenges, key features and use cases. Describe the key enabling technologies for SDVs — E/E architecture, microservices, containerization, and over-the-air updates. Discuss implementation strategies for SDVs, including digital-first and shift-left approaches. Identify the transformative role of AI in future mobility and across the development lifecycle.
Curriculum
- What is an SDV?
- SDV from different perspectives
- Challenges
- SDV domains
- SDV enabled feature examples
- Cloud native
- Loose coupling
- Microservices and APIs
- Containerization
- Building resilience — Chaos Monkey
- Learning from smartphone-led developments
- E/E architecture — today's architectures and evolving trends
- Service-oriented architecture and standards
- Container runtimes and APIs
- Common automotive APIs
- Workshop
- Digital first - multi-speed delivery and the software factory
- How to implement the shift left
- Autoverse virtualization and hardware-in-the-loop
- Engineering mules and development vehicles
- Fleet monitoring and system evolution
- Maturity stages of a vehicle
- Variant management
- Continuous homologation and managing global regulations
- Incumbent OEMs vs. disruptors
- Using AI for product innovation
- Using AI during software development
- Using AI in the “V” cycle
How You'll Learn
A comprehensive study guide with slides and detailed notes, a running case study, and class discussions and exercises throughout.
Before You Start
- Some experience in the automotive domain will be useful.
Certification & Exam
Certification follows a clear three-party structure — each party has a distinct role:
Automotive & Functional Safety Standards defines the standard
Automotive & Functional Safety Standards sets the syllabus and quality criteria this course is built against.
Baseline Skills delivers the training
Your instructor teaches the syllabus and prepares you for the exam — training and examination are kept separate for objectivity.
An independent body examines you
The certification exam is administered independently of the training provider, so your result reflects your own knowledge, not the course you happened to take.
Certification exam information (format, fees, retake policy) is provided separately from training details — see the Exams page or ask your trainer for the current details.
What You'll Get With Baseline Skills
- Comprehensive study material and detailed notes to serve as both an in-class guide and on-the-job reference.
- Example case study running throughout the course.
- Class discussions and exercises to reinforce the information presented.
- Course completion certificate and badge.
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