IMoG -- a methodology for modeling future microelectronic innovations

Abstract: [Context and motivation] The automotive industry is currently undergoing a fundamental transformation towards software defined vehicles. The automotive market of the future demands a higher level of automation, electrification of the power train, and individually configurable comfort functions. [Question/problem] These demands pose a challenge to the automotive development cycle, because they introduce complexity by larger and not yet well explored design spaces that are difficult to manage. [Principal ideas/results] To cope with these challenges, the main players along the value chain have an increased interest in collaborating and aligning their development efforts along joint roadmaps. Roadmap development can be viewed as a field of requirements engineering with the goal to capture product aspects on an appropriate level of abstraction to speed up investment decisions, reduce communication overhead and parallelize development activities, while complying with competition laws. [Contribution] In this paper, we present a refinement of the "Innovation Modeling Grid" (IMoG), which encompasses a methodology, a process and a proposed notation to support joint analysis of development roadmaps. IMoG is focused on the automotive domain, yet there are clear potentials for other applications.