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VirtuOS: Partnership for safety-critical applications

Verfasst von admin am Fr, 07/16/2010 - 13:59

OpenSynergy together with Fraunhofer FIRST and the Technical University Berlin have launched the project "VirtuOS". In VirtuOS, the project partners will develop processes, tools and mechanisms necessary for meeting the safety and security requirements of future automotive embedded software. OpenSynergy uses the project results to enhance OpenSynergy’s car operating system COQOS. 

 
Future control units within vehicles will integrate multiple functions to save cost and to reduce weight. Within such an integrated control unit,different types of applications, may run side by side and share hardware resources – e.g., infotainment applications with safety-relevant functions. In addition, as vehicles have more communication links to the outside world, security becomes an important issue: the vehicle systems must be protected from unauthorized manipulation. As a result, while becoming ever more complex, automotive embedded software and the operating systems used in the automotive ECUs must meet high safety and security requirements. In this context, important current and upcoming standards are AUTOSAR, ISO 26262 and Common Criteria.
The project "VirtuOS" will lay the foundations to produce certifiable high quality automotive embedded software that complies with those emerging requirements."VirtuOS" brings together academic specialists from Fraunhofer FIRST and the Technical University Berlin with the industrial and automotive Know-How from OpenSynergy.
 
VirtuOS is financed by the TSB Technologiestiftung Berlin –(Zukunftsfonds Berlin) and co-financed by the European Union –(European fund for regional development).