The modern automotive industry exemplifies a critical challenge facing embedded systems across multiple sectors. Where vehicles once contained perhaps two chips, today’s cars house approximately 200 processing units.
The software complexity has grown exponentially alongside this hardware proliferation, with modern vehicles containing 150 million lines of code compared to the 10,000 lines found in earlier systems. “Some estimates say that modern cars could reach a billion lines of code,” notes Hyun Shin Cho, CEO and Co-Founder of Ubitium, reflecting on discussions in an exclusive interview with Embedded.com.