A Rapid Prototyping Methodology for the Decision Making Algorithms in Automotive Electronic Systems

The importance of the numerical simulation and testing techniques for the software specifications development of on-board automotive systems design is the paper main issue. In order to promote flexible and rapid procedures improving software specifications, new methodologies are necessary. The proposed procedure is based on the design, simulation, validation, software compiling and rapid prototyping algorithms concerning management strategies of automotive electronic systems.

The new feature of this methodology is provided by the comparison between two prototyping environment outputs: rapid prototyping tool outputs represented by strategies running in DSpace^® using powerful microprocessors and CPU outputs characterized by limited calculation resources of an almost real one.