[IEEE Fourth International Workshop on Software Engineering for Automotive Systems - Minneapolis, MN, USA (2007.05.20-2007.05.26)] Fourth International Workshop on Software Engineering for Automotive Systems (SEAS '07) - Automotive Software Development for a Multi-Core System-on-a-Chip

✍ Scribed by Kopetz, Hermann; Obermaisser, Roman; El Salloum, Christian; Huber, Bernhard

• Book ID: 124059206
• Publisher: IEEE
• Year: 2007
• Weight: 225 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN-13: 9780769529684
• DOI: 10.1109/SEAS.2007.2

✦ Synopsis

There are many economic and technical arguments for the reduction of the number of Electronic Control Units (ECUs) aboard a car. One of the key obstacles to achieve this goal is the limited composability, fault isolation and error containment of today's singleprocessor architectures. However, significant changes in the chip architecture are taking place in order to manage the synchronization, energy dissipation, and fault-handling requirements of emerging billion transistor SoCs (systems-on-a-chip). The single processor architecture is replaced by multi-core SoCs that communicate via networks-on-chip (NoC). These emerging multi-core SoCs provide an ideal execution environment for the integration of multiple automotive ECUs into a single SoC. This paper presents a model-based software development method for designing applications using these multi-core SoCs.