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11 The EAST-ADL Architecture Description Language for Automotive Embedded Software

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Current trends in automotive embedded systems focus on how to manage the increasing software content, with a strong emphasis on standardization of the embedded software structure. The management of engineering information remains a critical challenge in order to support development and other stages of the life-cycle. System modelling based on an Architecture Description Language (ADL) is a way to keep these assets within one information structure. This paper presents the EAST-ADL2 modelling language, developed in the ITEA EAST-EEA project and further enhanced in the ATESST project (www.atesst.org). EAST-ADL2 supports comprehensive model-based development of embedded systems and provides dedicated constructs to facilitate variability and product line management, requirements engineering, representation of functional as well as software/hardware solutions, and timing and safety analysis.

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Cuenot, P. et al. (2010). 11 The EAST-ADL Architecture Description Language for Automotive Embedded Software. In: Giese, H., Karsai, G., Lee, E., Rumpe, B., Schätz, B. (eds) Model-Based Engineering of Embedded Real-Time Systems. MBEERTS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6100. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16277-0_11

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