IF-20 · Vehicle interface

Hardware, BSP and embedded platform boundary

Allocate power, network, sensors, storage, secure element, boot, OS/BSP, diagnostics and field-service responsibilities.

Name the source—and name what it cannot prove.

The same message can be observation, projection, plan, receipt or physical evidence. This contract keeps those meanings separate.

Authority

Frozen electrical/mechanical design and selected components own physical limits; BSP and firmware expose versioned capability and health.

Degraded behavior

Absent peripheral, brownout, thermal, storage, clock, network or boot fault enters a bounded degraded state with diagnostics.

Outcome boundary

A reference design, host build or simulated interface does not imply a frozen BOM, prototype result, certification, PPAP or SOP acceptance.

Choose transport after semantics are fixed.

The program can select one or more transports without changing the source authority or failure contract.

Board and harness interface controlBSP/driver APISecure boot and key serviceDiagnostics and manufacturing testPower-mode contract

Compatibility vector

  • schema or ABI version
  • producer release
  • consumer release
  • policy and entitlement revision
  • content/configuration revision
  • territory/platform profile

Acceptance evidence

  • contract compatibility
  • nominal and negative scenarios
  • ordering, replay and idempotency
  • latency, capacity and resource bounds
  • security, privacy and role enforcement
  • offline, recovery and rollback
  • target or operational acceptance
OEM program workshop

Freeze the Hardware, BSP and embedded platform boundary contract before integration.

Allocate owners, transport, schema, releases, policy, content, degradation, replay and target acceptance in one controlled baseline.