Abstract :
It is now widely accepted in the automotive electronics industry that the scale and complexity of the software content in cars is destined for dramatic increase in the coming five years, fuelled by intense competitive pressures. Kennedy Carter, along with its partners in two EU-funded research programs, has accepted the challenge of creating the definitive integrated development environment for embedded automotive software for the first decade of this century (2000-2010). The vision that informs these two projects is the need for an integrated development environment conforming to an open systems/software architecture. Part of that vision is that the algorithmic, control theoretic emphasis of much software development in the automotive industry hitherto will not be sufficient to manage the scale and complexity of the software challenge that the industry faces. Thus, tools such as MATRIXx and MatLab must be augmented by tools which have been proven in large scale telecommunications and aerospace projects and which support the separation of concerns, rapid prototyping, co-design and code generation. Kennedy Carter is now able to offer an integrated development environment (IDE), comprising the I-UML, I-SIM/RT and I-CCG products. Used in conjunction with MATRIXx from Integrated Systems, or MatLab/Simulink from The Mathworks, these products are able to realise the vision. The result is a development environment that offers comprehensive and flexible support for automotive system development
