The rising software complexity in Automotive industry demands reusable, hardware-agnostic development frameworks. AUTOSAR (Automotive Open System Architecture) provides a standardized, scalable ECU software architecture but cost-effective tooling and modern workflows are critical for broad adoption and competitiveness. One such area is for AUTOSAR configuration and authoring of Autosar architecture. Current solutions include commercial offerings which are often built on top of ARTOP (ArTOP is an eclipse-based ecosystem maintained by AUTOSAR consortium) and open-source python implementations. Commercial tools are prohibitive in cost, have complicated development workflows, are difficult to automate and lack quick integration with other tools. Python-based solutions are often community driven with small developer teams and face many challenges. These tools are not mature enough, have staggered development, security concerns, liability issues, lack of approvals etc. These libraries do not use ArTOP, which Autosar Consortium updates with every release, thus more work for keeping them up to date. Thus, we explore a custom, fully validated, in-house tool chain based on ArTOP. By engaging our experience, the solution will cover most development use cases. Using ArTOP as a base we reduce the efforts for each new release. The solution is cost effective, have modular development workflow, customizable validation rules, and transformation pipelines. The tool also has an exposed API layer for automation, CI/CD, external tool integration. This layer can be leveraged to harness generative AI for authoring, compliance, and development. This is poised to further slash development cycles and democratize AUTOSAR configuration for domain experts—delivering a scalable, liability-backed foundation for next-generation automotive software toolchains.
In this paper, we detail the proposed Autosar workflow, tool architecture, highlighting benefits. We also explore development and maintenance strategy. Lastly, we will explore AI assisted authoring and compliance use cases.