Simulation to Make Car Controls Safer

September 14th, 2007

This press release was very skimpy, but presumably, you can get more information about aXBench by contacting ISST directly…….Dan

The Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST) in Berlin has joined the international development initiative AUTOSAR (Automotive Open System Architecture) on behalf of the BMW Group. The goal of AUTOSAR is to standardize the functionality of much of the control software in modern vehicles, making it independent of specific platforms.

But before AUTOSAR can take to the road in tomorrow’s cars, it has to be tested to ensure it functions in a stable manner. To enable this, Markus Hardt, head of the department for reliable technical systems at the ISST, and his colleagues are developing the “aXBench”, a test platform that simulates the AUTOSAR architecture’s mode of operation and suggests an optimal distribution of functions. The “aXBench” enables the scientists to imitate and evaluate the correct functioning of control units, the swift transmission of data between the middleware and the receiver, and even true-to-life details such as hardware and software response times.

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