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Design and Evaluation of Future Ethernet AVB-Based ECU Networks

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Due to ever-increasing bandwidth requirements of modern automotive applications, Ethernet AVB is becoming a standard high-speed bus in automotive E/E architectures. Since Ethernet AVB is tailored to audio and video entertainment, existing analysis approaches neglect the specific requirements and features of heterogeneous E/E architectures and their applications. This chapter presents a virtual prototyping approach to consider Ethernet AVB in complex E/E architectures, reflecting key features such as static routing and stream reservation, fixed topology, and real-time applications. A comparison with a timing analysis on case studies from the automotive domain gives evidence that the proposed simulation technique delivers valuable bounds for complete sensor-to-actuator chains, enabling automatic system synthesis and design space exploration approaches.

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    Task in this case could either be a functional task executed on or a message that is currently transmitted over the component.

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    A credit overflow may happen in case of a permanent overloaded link by upper class CBS queues, but should not be allowed, because it is a faulty system design.

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This work is supported in part by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under project 01BV0914-SEIS.

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Glaß, M., Graf, S., Reimann, F., Teich, J. (2014). Design and Evaluation of Future Ethernet AVB-Based ECU Networks. In: Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, A., Zeng, H., Di Natale, M., Marwedel, P. (eds) Embedded Systems Development. Embedded Systems, vol 20. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3879-3_12

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