AUTOSAR Head-Up Display

AUTOSAR-compliant HUD architecture and faster CI/CD for embedded software. As Senior Embedded Software Engineer at a global Tier 1 automotive supplier (2019–2021), I worked on head-up display software for instrument clusters.

person driving car during night time
person driving car during night time

The case study

Technologies: AUTOSAR, embedded C/C++, instrument cluster and HUD software, CI/CD automation

The challenge
  • A HUD puts key information in the driver's line of sight, so it must be reliable

  • It has to integrate cleanly with the wider instrument cluster

  • Repeated deliveries to carmaker customers stretched build and release processes

My approach
  • AUTOSAR layered architecture separating application, basic software and hardware

  • Standards-based interfaces between the HUD and the instrument cluster

  • Automated build, test and release steps in the CI/CD pipeline

  • An AUTOSAR-compliant HUD architecture

  • A streamlined CI/CD process, so changes were integrated and released more consistently

Outcome
Balu Pillai

Automotive Solutions Architect

London, United kingdom

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