ITE-Sim: A simulator and power evaluation framework for electric/electronic architectures

This paper presents a novel electric/electronic (E/E) architecture simulator that allows the evaluation of design alternatives during early stages of the automotive development process. The simulation framework performs a joint power/performance evaluation for different partitionings of functional chains on a given multi-ECU technical architecture. The high-level modeling approach results in a short simulation runtime, which allows many different architectures to be explored. The simulator provides information about the power consumption, utilization values and timing information for processing and communication resources. Furthermore, it is possible to simulate and evaluate various power management concepts.