The reusable protocol-common block that can simulate the hardware characteristics

Abstract

Nowadays, electronic control units (ECUs) have more and more importance on the value of modern automobiles. This trend is causing the complexity of the overall systems to increase and make the development cycles longer. In order to address these problems, strategies to reuse software and a growing emphasis to develop hardware/software co-simulation schemes are gathering strength. The software reuse allows modular design aspects to be promoted and helps in limiting the development efforts needed. The hardware/software co-simulation enables early validation, easy robustness evaluation of the system and reduces the overall development cycles. This article proposes the development and adoption of software reusable blocks that can be in the hardware and/or software domains. The proposed blocks contain the common characteristics of several communication protocols. In this paper, we develop the CAN communication protocol by using the proposed software's reusable common blocks and added block that has some protocol specialized characteristics and compare the simulation results with real CAN signals from 16-bit embedded system for ECUs. ©2008 IEEE.