Driven by increasing consumer expectations for safety, convenience and a personalized experience, modern vehicles are undergoing a software-centric transformation. Much like how smartphones redefined the role and meaning of a mobile phone, software-defined vehicles are redefining the hardware architecture of a car and giving drivers flexibility over the features they want in the car.

Car-manufacturers are now finding themselves with the opportunity re-engineer the hardware and software architecture of a car. You can see the impact of software-defined vehicles in various subsystems within the car, from the shift towards powertrain domain control and zone control architectures to designing smarter systems and reducing the number of MCUs, all enabled by more intelligent semiconductor technology.

How Innovation in Battery Management Systems is Increasing EV Adoption examines the architecture and important subsystems of battery management systems (BMS). More details are discussed on how the trend of moving towards software-defined vehicles impacts the BMS in HEVs and EVs.