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Technology-Preserving Transition from Single-Core to Multi-core in Modelling Vehicular Systems

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The vehicular industry has exploited model-based engineering for design, analysis, and development of single-core vehicular systems. Next generation of autonomous vehicles will require higher computational power, which can only be provided by parallel computing platforms such as multi-core electronic control units. Current model-based software development solutions and related modelling languages, originally conceived for single-core, cannot effectively deal with multi-core specific challenges, such as core-interdependency and allocation of software to hardware. In this paper, we propose an extension to the Rubus Component Model, central to the Rubus model-based approach, for the modelling, analysis, and development of vehicular systems on multi-core. Our goal is to provide a lightweight transition of a model-based software development approach from single-core to multi-core, without disrupting the current technological assets in the vehicular domain.

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    https://www.arcticus-systems.com.

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    http://www.safetyintegrity.se.

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    The complete explanation of RubusMM is not in the scope of this work. The interested reader may refer to [9].

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    TimingConstraint and other elements from different RCM packages are not part of this extension. However, they are put in relation to the extension as they contribute to a holistic view of the language and its peculiarities.

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The work in this paper is supported by the Swedish Knowledge Foundation (KKS) through the PreView and MOMENTUM projects, and by the Swedish Research Council (VR) through the SynthSoft project. We thank our industrial partners Arcticus Systems, Volvo Construction Equipment and BAE Systems Hägglunds, Sweden.

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    Alessio Bucaioni, Saad Mubeen, Federico Ciccozzi, Antonio Cicchetti & Mikael Sjödin

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    Alessio Bucaioni & Saad Mubeen

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Bucaioni, A., Mubeen, S., Ciccozzi, F., Cicchetti, A., Sjödin, M. (2017). Technology-Preserving Transition from Single-Core to Multi-core in Modelling Vehicular Systems. In: Anjorin, A., Espinoza, H. (eds) Modelling Foundations and Applications. ECMFA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10376. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61482-3_17

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