Embedded Systems: The Migration from ICE Vehicles to Electric Vehicles

Future generations of electric vehicles (EVs) will require a new level of convergence between computer and automotive architectures, with the electric power train being a mechatronic system that includes a multitude of plug and play devices, embedded power and signal processing hardware, software and high level algorithms. This paper discusses the current advances in the computing devices, communication systems and management algorithms embedded in the EV building blocks used for implementing the distributed energy and propulsion architectures required for high efficiency, reduced complexity and safe redundancy.