Level 3 -5 Autonomous vehicle systems are complex systems where algorithms for perception, localization, planning and control needs to run on real time hardware platform; all algorithm are developed considering off line data storage, simulation, high-definition (HD) mapping, and deep learning model training. This session will go through an overview of autonomous vehicle systems design trying to highlight the major state of the art technologies, mostly referring to algorithms implementation to meet real-time and reliability requirements. A NXP system partition solution will be discussed.