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Automotive software services
Comprehensive engineering services and solutions for automotive software
Software Integration Testing & Validation
Valeo anSWer includes a range of engineering services for all mobility and automotive players: from software architecture consulting, system integration, validation, testing towards software maintenance throughout the vehicle's life cycle.
Integration
support
- Expertise consulting
- SW integration services
- SW integration including CI/CD process
- Workflow design
- Development and integration environment VintGO tool
Testing &
validation
- Testing expertise
- Full test setups and infrastructure
- Support in test planning implementation and execution
- Stress Testing (Voltage profile tests, thermal tests, etc.) Fault injections test
- DFT Support (design for test)
ARCHITECTURE
SUPPORT
- SW architecture expertise consulting
- Joint architecture and interfacing design of different SW elements
- Dynamic behaviour Architecture support
Maintenance as a service for Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs)
Service is essential for Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) due to their extended product lifecycles, which include development, production, and operations phases spanning over a decade or more. This requires continuous engineering support, including tools, interfaces, and bug-fixing capabilities, to ensure the longevity and reliability of the product. Valeo has adapted to this need by actively engaging with OEMs to provide maintenance as a service throughout the product's lifetime, rather than just at the start of production (SOP).
In addition, to enable efficient maintenance, Valeo introduced the vOS middleware that supports distributed computing and dynamic load balancing, enabling a seamless software updates.
Finally, Valeo's Modular Central Compute or Unit - a specific Computing platform designed by Valeo - allows for hardware upgrades through replaceable cartridges, ensuring that the system remains up-to-date and performs optimally.
In the following graph, we explain the different kinds of maintenance Valeo offers beyond the warranty period.
Corrective maintenance
Corrective maintenance involves intervening after detecting a defect or failure to restore normal system operation. This includes diagnosing and repairing software malfunctions (bugs in embedded code) or performance anomalies (degraded response times, excessive consumption). This may involve deploying over-the-air (OTA) software patches to resolve bugs.
Evolutive maintenance
Evolutive maintenance adopts a proactive approach aimed at improving, adapting, or extending the Operational Design Domain of existing functionalities.
Cybersecurity maintenance
Other kinds of maintenance could be offered like the cybersecurity vulnerability service which is about collecting, analyzing, prioritizing, and addressing security weaknesses across the embedded software, and connected systems. This service serves as a critical intelligence mechanism that bridges the gap between vulnerability discovery and remediation implementation.
Change request management
Software upgrades beyond original scope
- Valeo Maintenance Phase to be aligned with OEM Production Release Management
- High Continuous SW Delivery
- MED Frequent SW Delivery
- Low On Demand SW Delivery
- Development
- Vehicule production
- vehicule lifetime
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SoP (Start of Production)
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EoP (End of Production)
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EoL (End of Lifetime)
- Warranty
- Post Warranty
