Requirements for automotive system engineering tools

Author

Schlosser, Joachim

Author_Institution

BMW AG, Munich, Germany

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

364

Lastpage

369

Abstract

The requirements to system and software development tools brought up by the automotive industry differ from the requirements that other customers have. The important catchwords here are heterogeneity of suppliers, tools, technical background of the engineers, and - partially resulting from the just mentioned - the overall complexity of the systems that are built up. There are multiple suppliers delivering multiple programs and units, and all these are to be integrated into a car that has to meet a huge number of constraints regarding safety, reliability and consumer demands. This paper shows what the design of electric and electronic car systems is and has to be like, and what qualifications the methodology and the process therefore has to meet. From these two points a collection of requirements to the tools and the tool chain is derived, with a special focus on simulation tools.

Keywords

automobile industry; embedded systems; systems engineering; COTS; automotive industry; car manufacturers; complex systems; design process; electronic control units; embedded computer systems; process quality; product quality; requirements; security; Broadcasting; Centralized control; Computer interfaces; Fault tolerant systems; Intelligent actuators; Intelligent sensors; Mechanical sensors; Safety; Systems engineering and theory; Wheels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1063-6404

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1700-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCD.2002.1106795

Filename

1106795