"In a world where OEMs and third-party developers must repeatedly develop the same controllers, Software Factory will be a solution that dramatically reduces development time and improves quality."

Vector Korea's Oh Jun-hyung, FAE of the Embedded Business Division, presented on the topic of 'SW Factory in the SDV Era: Development Optimization Strategy through Integration and Distribution Automation' at the '2025 e4ds Tech Day' event held on the 9th.

Oh Jun-hyung, FAE, said, “The automobile industry is rapidly being reorganized around software,” and “The traditional hardware-centered vehicle design method is now entering an era where software determines the function and performance of the vehicle under the new concept of ‘SDV (Software Defined Vehicle)’.”

SDV stands for Software Defined Vehicle, a platform that allows vehicle functions to be defined and updated through software.

Previously, hardware dictated the limits of functionality, but now software can continuously add new features. there is.

This presents a huge opportunity for OEMs and third-party developers alike, but it also presents complex collaboration and integration validation challenges.

In particular, as functions are centralized into an architecture centered on HPC (High Performance Controller) and zonal controllers, it has become common for multiple teams to participate in development simultaneously on a single controller.

Accordingly, the scale of development is increasing and the complexity of integration is increasing exponentially.

The existing Autosar-based ECU development was a monolithic structure, integrating all components into a single project.

This approach caused several problems, including integration latency, merge conflicts, and repetition of manual work.

In particular, waiting times of several weeks before integration occurred, significantly reducing the efficiency of collaboration.

Accordingly, Vector Korea proposed a software factory solution centered around a tool called 'DaVinci Team'.

This solution introduces an input artifact-based structure, separating app packages and configuration files so that each team can work independently.

JSON-based instruction files enable auto-completion and validation, improving development speed and accuracy.

The DaVinci team provides two key features:

First, it automates basic software setup. Instead of a GUI, plugins automatically handle settings for each area, preventing settings from being missed or conflicting.

Also automation of application integration. Automatically performs complex tasks such as port mapping and task configuration based on JSON instructions.

This automation integrates with DevOps tools like Jenkins and Gradle to build a continuous integration and delivery (CICD) environment, enabling testing on real targets or virtual environments.

The AR File Splitter feature allows you to split existing ARXML files according to their purpose and reorganize them to fit your automation pipeline, so that they can be applied to existing single projects as well.

The solution of these vectors has been proven through global cases.

Ampere, a subsidiary of French Renault, has successfully implemented a shift-left strategy by applying this software factory solution to virtual ECUs and conducting tests from the early stages of development.

Another global OEM deployed DaVinci Teams on a 5GB project, reducing integration time from six weeks to just two hours.

In this way, the software factory is becoming more than just a development tool; it is establishing itself as a core infrastructure that opens up the future of the automotive industry.

Oh Jun-hyung, FAE, stated, "As automobiles become increasingly smarter and more complex, development methods are evolving accordingly. The Software Factory is a center of innovation that goes beyond simple technical tools to transform collaboration methods and development culture."