Costs and risks of implementing High-Performance Embedded Systems such as Centralized Car Servers for Autonomous Vehicles can be reduced when borrowing from modern datacenter technology. Therefore, PCIe and Multi-Gigabit Ethernet have become a foundation for automotive in-vehicle infrastructure. While the needs for storage in automotive are somewhat relaxed, compared to datacenters, automotive has a need for “unconventional” storage connectivity like many sensors to few CPUs to single SSD.

Tail latencies in networking tend to worry us all, whether we implement distributed storage and compute or whether we connect systems-of-systems in automotive or factory automation, for example. Same goes for the computational burden of processing networking protocols. One of the foundations of reliable networking is TCP, the Transmission Control Protocol which was introduced half a century ago. Today, TCP is ubiquitous: In the datacenter, in mobile communication, the Internet and in (embedded) systems-of-systems.

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