Understand the “why” and “how” of moving to Service-Oriented Architectures in the context of Software-Defined Vehicles.

As automotive systems evolve into software-defined platforms, traditional signal-oriented architectures are hitting their limits in flexibility, scalability, and updateability. In this hands-on workshop, Bence Nagy – an application engineer at SciEngineer – will walk you through why a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is essential for SDVs, and how to transition existing software systems step by step.

If you’re designing or maintaining software for modern automotive systems, this session will give you actionable insights and a clear technical roadmap to move from outdated designs to scalable, service-based architectures.

Case Study Highlight

Discover a real-world migration journey — from a legacy signal-based model to a scalable, service-based software stack. You’ll see how SOA enables:

• Individual component updates without impacting the whole system

• Distribution of functionality across applications

• A modular design with platform services, middleware, and application-layer services

What You’ll Take Away

• A solid grasp of Signal-Oriented vs. Service-Oriented Architecture differences

• How SOA enables distributed applications and independent software module updates

• Design principles and patterns for building reusable, relocatable software services

• How to plan and execute a stepwise migration of legacy code to SOA

• Practical considerations on middleware, service layers, and integration

Agenda

• Introduction to Software-Defined Vehicles

• Signal-Oriented vs. Service-Oriented Architectures

• Why SOA Matters for SDVs

• Case Study: Migrating Legacy Automotive Software to SOA

• Key Learnings & Q&A

Who Should Attend

• Embedded software engineers

• Software/system architects

• Engineers working on ECUs, middleware, and in-vehicle communication

• Anyone maintaining or upgrading legacy automotive software systems

Featured products

All products mentioned in this hands-on workshop are developed by MathWorks.

• MATLAB
• Simulink
• AUTOSAR Blockset
• Embedded Coder
• System Composer
• Stateflow