Integrated design of automotive control systems
Uwe Kiencke, Timo Kytoelae, Karl Joachim Neumann · 1996
The increasing complexity and the distributed architecture of automotive control systems, in combination with an economic pressure for shortened design periods, is a challenge for electronic engineers. In this paper, an integrated design approach is presented. For enhanced efficiency, a hierarchical approach is proposed, which is based on a uniform scheme to assign functional units to hardware units in different levels. The different design levels consider network, ECU (electronic control unit) and μC peripherals. Network design is simplified by the emerging OSEK/VDX standard. By an equivalent standardisation within the ECUs, functional models may be automatically assigned to software and hardware-objects.