Using Model-Based Design for Automotive Systems Engineering - Requirements Analysis of the Power Window Example

To provide customers with the latest features, new passenger cars can have more than 50 microprocessors. With this increasing electronic complexity, the process by which the requirements are captured, a design evolves and is verified, becomes increasing critical to the overall success of the design. In this paper, the authors demonstrate how using Model-Based Design with a Systems Engineering approach can address some common failure modes that arise during the traditional automotive design process.