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A Concept for a Safe Realization of a State Machine in Embedded Automotive Applications

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Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security (SAFECOMP 2007)

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Currently, both fail safe and fail operational architectures are based on hardware redundancy in automotive embedded systems. In contrast to this approach, safety is either a result of diverse software channels or of one channel of specifically coded software within the framework of Safely Embedded Software. Product costs are reduced and flexibility is increased. The overall concept is inspired by the well-known Vital Coded Processor approach. Since Mealy state machines are frequently used in embedded automotive systems, application software with a general Mealy state machine is realized differently with Safely Embedded Software starting from the high level programming language C with corresponding measurements.

This work is supported by the FHprofUnd program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research(FKZ 1752X07).

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  1. Regensburg University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Seybothstr. 2, D-93049 Regensburg, Germany

    Jürgen Mottok

  2. Technical University Munich, Institute of Information Technology in Mechanical Engineering, Boltzmannstr. 15, D-85748 Garching near Munich, Germany

    Frank Schiller

  3. SIEMENS VDO Automotive AG, Siemensstr. 12, D-93055 Regensburg, Germany

    Thomas Völkl & Thomas Zeitler

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Mottok, J., Schiller, F., Völkl, T., Zeitler, T. (2007). A Concept for a Safe Realization of a State Machine in Embedded Automotive Applications. In: Saglietti, F., Oster, N. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4680. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75101-4_28

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