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Posts tagged with 'ISO 26262'

The Path to Greatness

Posted Mar 15, 2011, by John Day

Talk to some of the people who were around in the very early days of automotive electronics and you get an idea of just how much the industry has changed. Back in the day, some 40 years ago, industry executives knew nothing about electronics and cared less. No so today. One can drown in the alphabet soup of systems engineering efforts aimed at improving reliability. “In North America and France, most … Read More

Tags: ISO 26262, Whac-A-Mole, TRW Automotive, Broadsword Solutions, Automotive SPICE, CMMI

A new automotive OS

Posted Nov 24, 2009, by John Day

News usually travels pretty fast on the Internet. Someone puts out a press release and within minutes it’s posted on dozens of sites. Not last week, though, for one story in particular, and it looks to me like a good one. Delphi, Geensys, and CEA (the French Atomic Energy Commission) announced the formation of a consortium to promote the PharOS, an operating system and tool chain that meets ISO 26262 … Read More

Tags: Renault, PharOS, Automotive Electrical and Electronic Systems Design, AUTOSAR, Automotive Body Computers, Geensys, ISO 26262, CEA, Delphi