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Present day automobiles make use of a large number of Electronic control Units (ECU), for a varied purposes such as engine control, power steering control, transmission control etc. Each of these ECU's has its own processors, the selection of which is made on the basis of the particular task to be handled. All the more, these processors are interconnected by the use of one or more communication protocol such as CAN, LIN etc. This gives us a platform for the implementation of distributed processing in the system. Implementation of distributed processing has a number of advantages such as increase in processing power, reduction in wire complexity, reuse of same hardware module for different tasks, decrease in the processor size required as compared to when the entire processing was to be carried out by an individual processor and better and more complex problem solving tools can now be implemented.