A novel method to speed-up the evaluation of cyber-physical systems (ISO 26262)

The development of electric/electronic systems of today's vehicles is becoming more and more complex. New challenges are arising through highly distributed systems, so-called cyber-physical systems, which interact with and have an impact on the physical world. Methods and tools are thus essential to support the development process, especially when systems are safety-critical and demand reliability. In this paper, we present a novel method to decrease the design effort and speed up the verification of hardware. Our approach helps to avoid building safety-critical systems from scratch using industry standards like IP-XACT and UML/MARTE. Furthermore, our tool-aided method supports designers in making design-decisions for hardware very early in the development process. To demonstrate its efficiency, our methodology is applied to an industrial use-case of a battery management system. The results show that using our approach, it is possible to decrease development time and effort in the development of safety-critical systems.