Development of Automotive Communication Based Real-Time Systems - A Steer-by-Wire Case Study

Safety-critical automotive systems must fulfill hard real-time constraints to guarantee their reliability and safety requirements. In the context of network-based electronics systems, high-level timing requirements have to be carefully mastered and traced throughout the whole development process. In this paper, we outline the management of scheduling-specific timing information by the application of a steer-by-wire design example. We apply the principles of the AUTOSAR-compliant Timing Augmented Description Language (TADL) following the methodology introduced by the TIMMO project[2]. Focus of the example will be the identification of end-to-end timing constraints and their refinement by means of stimuli-response event chains.