Is Software Coded Processing an Answer to the Execution Integrity Challenge of Current and Future Automotive Software-Intensive Applications?

Abstract

In upcoming automotive systems, the high integration of safety-critical software and the use of high-performance controllers with limited integrity is a demanding challenge. Innovations like driving automation require significantly higher computational power than it is available via special-purpose controllers equipped with safety features. The qualification of high-performance commodity hardware for use in safety-critical systems becomes desirable. To cope with the dilemma of low integrity of such controllers, Software Coded Processing reliably shifts the detection of execution errors into the application software allowing high diagnostic coverage of processing units’ failures.