Nowadays, System Engineers are placed in the centre of two antagonist flows: microelectronic systems are increasingly complex whilst the time budget for development is constantly shrinking. Even if ...

Part 1 of this article discussed automotive design chains and their dynamics, as well as software and networking challenges in automotive. We closed with a discussion of the different development ...

The so-called V-model provides many benefits for organizing the system engineering perspective by depicting the orderly progression, from requirements definition to system-level specification, ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. The design, integration, and deployment of embedded-system software presents many challenges related to the operating system, development environment, ...

Editor's Note: With the case of Toyota’s killer firmware still fresh, we offer this closer look at automotive system design feature. Part Two will continue with a deeper look at specific design issues ...