AUTOSAR and FlexRay: A Tale of Two Standards

ABSTRACT

This paper describes ways tools are quickly becoming the foundation for optimization processes that help engineers design profitable automotive products more efficiently than ever before.  Standards are the enabling platform for the modern computer-based design tools that have transformed industries around the world. AUTOSAR is a leading effort to bring some standardization to the software platforms that are at the heart of today’s automobiles. AUTOSAR is gaining ever wider acceptance among car makers, which sets the stage for further development of automated tools for system design, evaluation, and feasibility studies.