In what domains are PSA Peugeot Citroën currently using multi-core technologies, why is a modular software architecture advantageous and how are redundant cores and cryptographic algorithms being used to address safety and security concerns? Bernard Bavoux, Electronic Systems Expert at PSA Peugeot Citroën, explains his view on this topic. Read the whole interview here: http://bit.ly/Interview_Bavoux For more information visit our website here: http://bit.ly/Website_MultiCore

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System Engineering with Multicore Systems at
PSA Peugeot Citroën – Feedback and Expectations
Bernard Bavoux began his career developing embedded
microcontrollers for satellites before moving to the aeronautic
domain where he was in charge of the electronic design office
for digital audio intercommunication systems. Since 16 years he
has been working in the automotive industry, where he
managed an electric and electronic architecture innovation team
and an electronic control unit research team. Currently at PSA
Peugeot Citroën, he has been leading research and expertise for
embedded electronic systems.
Mr. Bavoux, could you please tell us a bit about the work of
your team as well as your own role? Why is the trend towards
multi-core technologies important for you?
I am an Expert for PSA Peugeot Citroën. This means that I have to
give a vision of the future trends, to advise technically the innovation and development projects, to
transmit the knowledge and knowhow, and to represent my company in my expertise field. I am working
for several years in the field of embedded electronic systems, in particular to size the processors in
consistency with the software needs: functions, safety and performances. The key advantage of
multicore technologies is to enable more processing power at low cost. In particular this is a recurrent
need for automotive engine control software
Since when have you been using multi-core technologies? What opportunities do they bring?
PSA has been using Multi-core technologies for the first time in 2002 for the development of automotive
radio display (STPC including 486+GPU). Since then, for multimedia domain, multi-core and many cores
are widely used to process video signals with microprocessor architecture (large external memories).
Since 2013 multi-core microcontrollers have been used in all developments of enhanced engine control
management compliant with Euro 6.2 emission regulations.