Integration of International Standards for Production Code Generation

This paper discusses the standards that can currently be applied to production code generators and examines five standards in detail: OSEK/VDX, MISRA C, ISO/IEC 15504 (SPiCE), which is compared to ‘CMM for Software’, and IEC 61508. The issues involved in meeting these standards or integrating them in production code generators are discussed. The suitability of automatic production code generation in safety-critical applications is described, taking the TargetLink production code generator from dSPACE as an example.