Mechanisms for guaranteeing data consistency and flow preservation in AUTOSAR software on multi-core platforms

The implementation of AUTOSAR runnables as a set of concurrent tasks requires the protection of shared communication and state variables implementing interface and internal ports. In addition, in a model-based design flow, the results of the model validation and verification are retained only if the code implementation preserves the semantic properties of interest. Since AUTOSAR does not support the modeling of the internal behavior of runnables, the most likely candidate for the development of the functions behavior is Simulink, which is based on a Synchronous Reactive semantics. Commercial code generation tools offer solutions for preserving the signal flows exchanged among model blocks allocated to the same core, but do not scale to multicore systems. In this paper, we summarize the possible options for the implementation of communication mechanisms that preserve signal flows, and discuss the tradeoff in the implementation of AUTOSAR models on multicore platforms.