ISO-26262 Implications on Timing of Automotive E/E System Design Processes

The trend in automotive systems is towards an increasing complexity, where much of safety-critical functionality is implemented in software. The emerging safety automotive standard ISO-26262, will require safety cases where are clearly argued that a system is safe in all aspects, and where showing a timely behaviour is one necessary condition. Based on industrial experiences and actual research from as well automotive as aerospace domains, this paper shows how the safety requirements from ISO-26262 with respect to timing can be met even in a complex situation, such as enabled by AUTOSAR.