The complexity of embedded automotive systems calls for a more rigorous approach to system development compared to current state of practice. A critical issue is the management of the engineering information that defines the embedded system. The EAST-ADL is an architecture description language for automotive embedded systems. The language emphasizes information management as a basis for systema...

Funktionsnetze gehören während des Systementwurfs im modellgetriebenen Top-Down-Entwicklungsprozess von Fahrzeugsoftware zu den ersten Artefakten; sie werden aus den Spezifikationen der Anforderungen abgeleitet und sind die Grundlage der Architekturspezifikation. In der Praxis haben sich Funktionsnetze aber noch nicht konsequent durchgesetzt. Dort arbeiten Fahrzeughersteller vorrangig mit umfan...

Die Entwicklung von Software für Steuergeräte (ECU, electronic control unit) im Fahrzeug unterliegt speziellen Randbedingungen und Vorgehensweisen, die üblicherweise nicht Bestandteil in der einführenden Lehre des Software-Engineering sind. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Frage, inwieweit die spezifischen Ausprägungen des Automotive Software Engineering (ASE) in der Ausbildung Studierender innerh...

The requirements to system and software development tools brought up by the automotive industry differ from the requirements that other customers have. The important catchwords here are heterogeneity of suppliers, tools, technical background of the engineers, and – partially resulting from the just mentioned – the overall complexity of the systems that are built up. There are multiple suppliers...

In order to understand how to bring out the most power from a car’s engine, we needed to learn how an engine works. The main focus of this research was to tune the engine and create a fuel map that would allow it to run at its optimum level. We used the Win Tec-GT computer software to test the performance of a 2002 Yamaha YZFR6 engine that the Rutgers 2008 Racing Team uses in their car. To easi...

Within Requirements Engineering it is a difficult task to systematically increase the quality of individual requirements and the whole specification. In this position paper we present our current research effort on a requirement engineering process for automotive software, which is an intermediate result of the mobilSoft project. In order to improve the requirements specification we propose the...

Computational grid portals are becoming essential tools in automotive companies world-wide for managing compute resources for virtual engineering and design. Many automotive and associated manufacturing industries are taking initiatives for making the computing resources transparent from the integrated design environment. This paper illustrates how the grid portal technologies can fulfil these ...