Abstract
Mixed-criticality systems integrating applications subject to different safety assurance levels into the same multicore embedded platform can provide potential benefits in terms of performance, cost, size, weight, and power. In spite of this evidence, however, several hard challenges related to the safety certification of multicore approaches must be considered before endorsing their unrestrained adoption. This paper describes an ISO-26262 compliant safety concept for an automotive mixed-criticality case-study on top of a multicore platform. To this end, key aspects such as time and space partitioning are evaluated and enforced by means of hardware protection mechanisms.
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This work has been supported by the European Community’s FP7 PROXIMA project under grant No. 611085. The work received precious in-kind contributions including the system model and the corresponding safety requirements, from partner Intecs of the CONCERTO project (ARTEMIS-JU grant nr. 333053), in the context of an active inter-project collaboration with PROXIMA.
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Agirre, I., Azkarate-askasua, M., Larrucea, A., Perez, J., Vardanega, T., Cazorla, F.J. (2016). Automotive Safety Concept Definition for Mixed-Criticality Integration on a COTS Multicore. In: Skavhaug, A., Guiochet, J., Schoitsch, E., Bitsch, F. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9923. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45480-1_22
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