This document talks about the usage of Simulation Data Exchange (SDX) (Moorthy 1999) in order to enable a consistent digital model of automotive factories. The scope of the digital model is to plan and analyze the factory by using different software packages. Thus the model doesn’t exist in only one application. Therefore the consistency in terms of geometry and process data needs to be guarant...

Increasingly complex systems-on-chip (SoCs) are enabling sophisticated applications in mobile communications, consumer electronics, medical devices, networking, automotive, and many other markets. But SoC development costs are rapidly rising with complexity and capacity, and are expected to reach $100 million by the 32nm process node. Studies show that much, if not most, of that cost will be em...

2 Foreword Foreword How can the automotive-specific language EAST-ADL contribute in solving present challenges in the development of automotive systems? Cornerstones of high quality embedded systems are mature engineering techniques using model-based development and standardized, reliable architectures. Industrial experience shows that model-based development techniques are required in the auto...

Automotive architectures consist of multiple electronic control units (ECUs) which run distributed control applications. Such ECUs are connected to sensors and actuators and communicate via shared buses. Resource arbitration at the ECUs and also in the communication medium, coupled with variabilities in execution requirements of tasks results in jitter in the signal/data streams existing in the...

Automotive transmission systems are difficult to test and validate, due to the complex interaction of mechanics, hydraulics, electronics, and transmission control software. The tight interaction among an ever increasing amount of software functions and hardware subsystems leads to a new kind of complexity that is difficult to manage during mechatronic design. System tests have to consider huge ...