Reliability assessment of safety-relevant automotive systems in a model-based design flow

Authors: Alexander Viehl, FZI Forschungszentrum Informat...; Oliver Bringmann, FZI Forschungszentrum Informa...; ; Sebastian Reiter; Michael Pressler

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Abstract
To support the reliability assessment of safetyrelevant distributed automotive systems and reduce its complexity, this paper presents a novel approach that extends virtual prototyping towards error effect simulation. Besides the common functional and timed system simulation, error injection is used to stress error tolerance mechanisms. A quantitative assessment of the overall system reliability is performed by observing the system reactions and identifying incorrect system behavior. To foster the industrial application, the analysis is integrated in a model-based design flow, starting at the modeling level to assemble and parameterize the virtual prototype and to configure the analysis. The feasibility of the proposed approach is demonstrated by analyzing a representative safety-relevant automotive use case.

 

978-1-4673-3030-5/13/$31.00 ©2013 IEEE

Publication Date: 2013/01/25

Location of Publication: Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) , Yokohama, Japan

Keyword: Automotive