Activities
Seminar by Denis Claraz (Continental Automotive France SAS Powertrain Engine Systems): Handling of Engine Management real-time architecture at Continental Automotive
To meet constraints of re-use, variability, complex real-time and limited HW resources, the architecture of an engine management software is split into a static facet defining compilation units (modules, aggregates) and a dynamic (real-time) facet defining execution units (functions, tasks). The dynamic facet is characterized by sequencing and data consistency needs between strongly coupled functions, by a wide range of temporal events (from 1 millisecond to 1 second) mixed with a set of angular events (ie based on engine speed, ie with permanently variable frequency). After a short description of these constraints (which drive futher choices), we will present the means used at Continental to control the schedulability (only one aspect of dynamic architecture) of our systems: specification of the needs, implementation and configuration, verification by measurement, estimation or simulation. We will give a status on the current issues and difficulties, and an outlook on the future developments in this area.
