IESF Europe 2012: Embedded Systems

TECHNICAL SESSION Growing complexity of software in automotive electronic control units has forced the industry to invest into software standardization activities such as AUTOSAR and GENIVI. These standards aim at enabling higher reuse of software at all levels of the software supply chain. In this changing environment semiconductor companies that in the past supplied hardware only are now also becoming an important part of the automotive software supply chain. In parallel each automotive segment has brought forward more demanding requirements: the ISO 26262 norm defines new requirements for functional safety, powertrain applications demand higher than ever MCU performance, and lower power consumption is needed in body and comfort applications. This presentation will present the processes, competencies, product and service offerings Freescale has developed to meet these challenges.

TECHNICAL SESSION Virtualization technology has founds its home in automotive design and allows integration of more functions with fewer ECUs. AUTOSAR functions, AUTOSAR state managers, security functions, shared drivers (e.g. graphics) and the actual Linux/GenIVI operating system are all running on one shared CPU in segregated partitions.
But does virtualization make Linux/GenIVI systems flexible and secure? Can it withstand security concerns? Does virtualization negatively impact the systems' performance? This presentation will be based on the example of integrating various functions with internet connectivity into the head unit and will describe all of the building blocks necessary to put this successfully into practice.
This presentation is intended for system architects, engineers responsible for ECUs, embedded software developers, and managers at OEMs, Tier-1, and system houses.

TECHNICAL SESSION An important aspect of today’s development programs is choosing design and analysis methods that ensure that the end product functions as intended, is safe, can be delivered cost effectively, and will be reusable. With the increasing role of embedded software in the delivery of automobile functionality, it is particularly important to choose an effective software development methodology. With major new software requirements just around the corner, such as AUTOSAR compatibility and ISO26262 compliance, it is imperative to use a methodology that is adaptable to the future.

This session is for the vehicle software developer who needs to deliver high quality, reusable, future-proof software on time. Our development flow provides a model-driven, virtual environment for software component engineering. Unlike hand-crafted, prototype-driven methodologies, this solution provides a methodical, model-driven flow that automates software component delivery, can be verified early and cheaply, and can be flexibly targeted to architectures in use today or in the future.

This presentation will explore how a modern model-driven development (MDD) approach can be used to tackle the most common system design challenges, including early concept and requirements validation, requirements management and traceability, architectural tradeoff analysis, execution and analysis across engineering domains, transformation of the model to specific implementations, and leverage of a consistent test environment from concept to physical testing.

Products featured: BridgePoint, SystemVision, Envisage, VSI, SVX for Simulink, LabVIEW, C/C++, & AUTOSAR

TECHNICAL SESSION This session will cover the work of the GENIVI organization, and range and scope of GENIVI components available for IVI systems design.  Some are mature and released,  while others are still in the specification and development stage.  The GENIVI development process and technology roadmap will also be outlined. IVI and adjacent technology implementation architectures will be covered, using reference to the Mentor IVI Linux design solution.

TECHNICAL SESSION The pace of change in design, dynamism and graphics in consumer HMI has been spectacular and it is no surprise that automotive OEMs and their suppliers need to rise to the challenge of creating and implementing HMIs which are at least as good as, and many cases better, than today’s consumer HMIs. Implementing these advanced HMIs in the automotive environment posses its own set of challenges: long development cycles, significant use of tier-1 suppliers, safety critical requirements, driver distraction, and in cluster there is need for highly realistic 3D HMIs which are as close to physical gauges as possible. This session discuses the challenges facing OEMs and their suppliers and looks at what can be done to help in what will continue to be a fast-changing part of a vehicle.