AWS for Industries

Martin Schleicher

Author: Martin Schleicher

Martin Schleicher has more than 25 years of experience with software in the automotive industry. Since 2021, he has been working at Continental as Head of Software Strategy in the "Software and Central Technologies" division, driving the Software-Defined Vehicle forward. Prior to that, he held various management positions at Elektrobit, a leading provider of automotive software. Martin has been playing and coaching junior teams in Field hockey, where he learned that teams can achieve outstanding results by continuously practicing and improving their skills.

Figure 2 A virtualized HPC on AWS, enabled by vECU Creator

Develop and test automotive software at scale using AWS

The traditional hardware-centric approach of developing and testing automotive software using Hardware-in-the-loop (HiL), is slow and limited in scale. The physical Electronic Control Units (ECUs) are not readily available during the software development phase, thus limiting the development team’s ability to scale. Consumer demand and expectations highlight the need for vehicles to be more connected, […]