Plug-in electric vehicles are becoming increasingly popular as the U.S. and other nations look for ways to reduce the usage of petroleum fuels and reduce the carbon emission footprint. Though plug-in ....
With the introduction of the ISO26262 automotive safety standard there is a burden of proof to show that the processing elements in embedded microcontroller hardware are capable of supporting a certai....
In order to solve the reliability and security problems which are caused by the structural alteration of the traditional steering system, the fault-tolerant control method for the Electronic Control U....
International standards that define requirements for the development of safety-related systems typically also define required confidence levels for the software tools used to develop those systems. Th....
Given the fast changing market demands, the growing complexity of features, the shorter time to market, and the design/development constraints, the need for efficient and effective verification and va....
The early phases in safety engineering (the Item Definition and the Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (H+R)) set the foundation for the overall development of safety-relevant systems. Furthermore, H....
The ever increasing number and complexity of software-controlled features in today's automotive vehicles mandate the use of numerous techniques and tools for ensuring the absence of any kind of defect....
The adoption of model-based development in the automotive industry has been driven by the need to respond to the challenges of producing software for high-volume applications: increasingly complex fea....
The release of ISO 26262 is only about three months after the 2011 World Congress. However, there are still some contentious aspects that can introduce challenges or cause a disproportionate effort. I....
Among the several enhancements in AUTOSAR Release 4.0 is the addition of an End-to-End (E2E) Communication Protection Library. This library defines several E2E profiles, each of which implements a com....
