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AUTOSAR offers the automotive electronics supply chain a major opportunity for change; however, this change brings a new set of challenges in creating, validating, and integrating the elements needed to make up a correctly functioning automotive system. This particularly imposes new demands on clarity of requirements and effective interaction between supplier and customer. This paper will consider two examples: the use case of a supplier previously delivering a vertically integrated sensor/signal processing/analysis combination on a dedicated electronic control unit (ECU), now providing separate sensor and software component deliverables for another company to integrate; and the challenges faced by that integrator in bringing together many disparate software components into a new consolidated multifunction ECU.