My Big, Fat, Safe Software Stack: Functional Safety for Complex Software for Next-Generation Vehicles
Milan Z. Bjelica · 2021
I used to be enthusiastic about software. I liked clever, modular architectures; design patterns made for extensibility; virtualized, multi-application runtimes; seamless software updates; reusability in the harsh hardware-accelerated environments. And then, I was summoned to the automotive arena, which was in a desperate need for a centralized processing, artificial intelligence algorithms, service-oriented architectures and a fat software stack for the next-generation vehicles. It seemed like a dream job… at first. Only until I realized that to keep a promise I now need to adhere to the harsh world of reliability, safety and processes. This is a story of my software stack and me travelling, unscathed, following the challenging functional safety and reliability trail.