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Automotive Embedded Systems

The Migration Challenges to a Time Triggered Paradigm

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In comparison to event-triggered systems, the time-triggered paradigm enhances the design flow with the definition of the system timing behavior. This approach provides positive aspects with regards to the development of predictable systems. However, the migration to a time-triggered scheme presents different challenges such as the efficient definition and management of timing information during the system development and within the software architecture. Based on a detailed explanation of the time-triggered concepts, the focus of this paper is set on the integration problems of this new paradigm within a typical automotive software environment. Furthermore, the experience gained during the design and configuration of our two prototyping platforms as well as the design flow enhancement performed within this research project are presented.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the “COMET K2 Forschungsförderungs-Programm” of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour (BMWA), Österreichische Forschungs-förderungsgesellschaft mbH (FFG), Das Land Steiermark and Steirische Wirtschaftsförderung (SFG) for their financial support.

Additionally we would like to thank the supporting companies and project partners austriamicrosystems, AVL List and CISC Semiconductor as well as Graz University of Technology and the University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum.

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    Eric Armengaud, Allan Tengg & Mario Driussi

  2. Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Michael Karner, Christian Steger & Reinhold Weiß

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Armengaud, E., Tengg, A., Driussi, M., Karner, M., Steger, C., Weiß, R. (2011). Automotive Embedded Systems. In: Conti, M., Orcioni, S., Martínez Madrid, N., Seepold, R. (eds) Solutions on Embedded Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0638-5_11

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