Simulink Interface Concepts
In Model-based Development and Embedded Software Engineering, the growing complexity requires concepts like modularization, ease of maintenance, or module reusability. In this context it is crucial to understand the interface in Simulink, which is defined by the data flow into and out of a subsystem. This blog article gives an overview about the different interfaces […]
Automatic Test of AUTOSAR Code Replacement Library Routines at Ford Motor Company
The Journey – from idea to solution It seems like every day more and more software teams are developing software in a model-based way, using Simulink models and auto-generated c-code… and Ford is no different. Many low-level math and interpolation routines have been developed by the central software team as libraries that can be used […]
AUTOSAR – What is the Best Approach to Handle Reusable Code?
Component reuse is a common use case in any type of software and this is particularly true in automotive applications. Consider the equipment in the cars such as wheels, seats, doors, lights, clutches (e.g., in a dual-clutch transmission), and so on. They are controlled by software and as they exist by pairs, it makes sense […]
Interview: How does a Model Checker work?
Model Checking is part of the Formal Methods which address formal specification, formal development, formal verification and theorem provers. Model Checking belongs to the formal verification and provides a complete mathematical proof to verify your system-under-test. BTC EmbeddedPlatform uses the model checking technology for structural test data generation to achieve full code coverage, for formal […]
ISO 26262 Functional Safety Requirement Types
With the aim to provide technical coherence, reliability and safety, requirements engineering is the process for defining, documenting and managing requirements. In the 90s, the IEEE provided a general definition of requirements engineering with five phases: elicitation, analysis, specification, verification and management. Within each industry, requirements engineering has been adapted to the specific domain of […]
Why and How to Improve Requirements
“How do you manage your requirements?” We ask this question quite often in customer meetings. The people we meet are usually developers and testers in the automotive industry. In most cases the answers range between “We do not have any requirements. The model represents them.” and “We use a requirements management system; however, the requirements […]
What You Should Know About Fixed-Point Code
Vocabulary: Floating-point code? – Fixed-point code? – Scaling? – Resolution? – LSB? Basically, we can distinguish between two kinds of datatypes in embedded code: Floating-point and Integer. An integer variable basically represents whole numbers and the value range is limited by the number of bits. For example, an (unsigned) 8bit Integer can represent 2^8=256 different values, by default […]
When and how to generate test cases automatically
The automatic test case generation has always been a controversial topic. While some people dream about stopping any manual test activities others say that test generation is not allowed. But who is right? Test Goals for automatic test case generation Let’s have a quick look at the possible test goals for which we can generate […]
The Power of Focus – How to Optimize a Model Checker for Embedded Software
Unlike random algorithms or Abstract Interpretation, Model Checking allows to analyze the dynamic behavior of software with mathematical completeness. Use cases are for example robustness analysis, structural test case generation or test case generation from requirements. However, the complexity of the analysis task makes it challenging to apply Model Checking to industrial applications. The recent […]
AUTOSAR – What Every Function Developer Should Know…
In recent decades, the demands for designing smarter and safer vehicles has caused a significant increase in the size and complexity of the automotive systems software. In a modern high-end passenger car, more than 100 million software lines of code (SLoC) are embedded and distributed across as many as 80 ECUs communicating in a network […]