DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR DEVELOPING VEHICLE ARCHITECTURE-AGNOSTIC SOFTWARE

A method of programming a programmable unit of a vehicle with a plurality of electronic control units ("ECUs") is disclosed herein. The method can include developing software to be deployed on the programmable unit of the vehicle with a computer-based platform including a hardware abstraction layer, a transport layer, and a service layer. Developing the software can include: interfacing with the ECUs, concealing a vehicle-specific configuration of the ECUs, eliminating ECU-specific dependencies for the software, integrating a first vehicle communication protocol associated with the software with a second vehicle communication protocol associated with the ECUs, and developing the software via a plurality of application programming interfaces. After developing the software, the method can include deploying the software to the vehicle for installation on the programmable unit.