Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are widely used for describing interaction scenarios between the components of a distributed system. Consequently, worst-case response time estimati...
The FlexRay protocol [4] is likely to be the de facto standard for automotive communication systems. Hence, there is a need to provide hard performance guarantees on properties li...
In this paper, we analyze the use of UML as a starting point to go from design issues to end of production testing of complex embedded systems. The first point is the analysis of ...
Andrea Baldini, Alfredo Benso, Paolo Prinetto, Ser...
In today’s technical world (e.g., in the automotive industry), more and more purely mechanical components get replaced by electro-mechanical ones. Thus the size and complexity o...
Raimund Kirner, Roland Lang, Gerald Freiberger, Pe...
We designed and implemented a new programming language called Hierarchical Timing Language (HTL) for hard realtime systems. Critical timing constraints are specified within the la...
Arkadeb Ghosal, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli...