Citation
Armin Wasicek, Oliver Hoftberger, Martin Elshuber, Haris Isakovic, Andreas Fleck. "Virtual CAN Lines in an Integrated MPSoC Architecture". Proceedings of the 17th IEEE Computer Society Symposium on Object/Component/Service-oriented Real-time Distributed Technology (ISORC), June, 2014.

Abstract
The standard solution for automotive control net- works is the Control Area Network (CAN) bus. Almost any vehicular computer system comprehends at least one CAN line. For the past two decades, software development for control system has been strongly connected to the properties and interfaces of the CAN bus. Currently, the automotive industry is in the middle of a technology leap towards an information-based industry. New technologies are getting ready to fulfill newly emerging requirements for innovative products such as hybrid engine control, intelligent energy management, and advanced driver assistance systems. Integrated Multi-Processor-on-a-Chips (MPSoCs) will be one part of the solution to provide an adequate computing infrastructure for these newly emerging systems. The established technologies like the CAN bus will have to be reconsidered. In this work, we propose a virtual CAN overlay that abstracts the communication interfaces of an MPSoC to provide the Application Programmer Interface (API) of CAN to programmers. The overlay provides the standard behavior of a CAN line and works transparently over chip boundaries. The major implications is that the programmers can continue their used software development approaches and tools when introducing a new computing infrastructure. The main benefit is that the productivity can be maintained during this critical phase. In summary, our solution helps to mitigate the effects from a technology shift to integrated MPSoCs. Our approach is fully compliant with new automotive software development approaches like AUTOSAR.

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  Isakovic, Andreas Fleck. <a
  href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1060.html"
  >Virtual CAN Lines in an Integrated MPSoC
  Architecture</a>, Proceedings of the 17th IEEE
  Computer Society Symposium on
  Object/Component/Service-oriented Real-time Distributed
  Technology (ISORC), June, 2014.

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  Armin Wasicek, Oliver Hoftberger, Martin Elshuber, Haris
  Isakovic, Andreas Fleck. "Virtual CAN Lines in an
  Integrated MPSoC Architecture". Proceedings of the 17th
  IEEE Computer Society Symposium on
  Object/Component/Service-oriented Real-time Distributed
  Technology (ISORC), June, 2014.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{WasicekHoftbergerElshuberIsakovicFleck14_VirtualCANLinesInIntegratedMPSoCArchitecture,
      author = {Armin Wasicek and Oliver Hoftberger and Martin
                Elshuber and Haris Isakovic and Andreas Fleck},
      title = {Virtual CAN Lines in an Integrated MPSoC
                Architecture},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th IEEE Computer Society
                Symposium on Object/Component/Service-oriented
                Real-time Distributed Technology (ISORC)},
      month = {June},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {The standard solution for automotive control net-
                works is the Control Area Network (CAN) bus.
                Almost any vehicular computer system comprehends
                at least one CAN line. For the past two decades,
                software development for control system has been
                strongly connected to the properties and
                interfaces of the CAN bus. Currently, the
                automotive industry is in the middle of a
                technology leap towards an information-based
                industry. New technologies are getting ready to
                fulfill newly emerging requirements for innovative
                products such as hybrid engine control,
                intelligent energy management, and advanced driver
                assistance systems. Integrated
                Multi-Processor-on-a-Chips (MPSoCs) will be one
                part of the solution to provide an adequate
                computing infrastructure for these newly emerging
                systems. The established technologies like the CAN
                bus will have to be reconsidered. In this work, we
                propose a virtual CAN overlay that abstracts the
                communication interfaces of an MPSoC to provide
                the Application Programmer Interface (API) of CAN
                to programmers. The overlay provides the standard
                behavior of a CAN line and works transparently
                over chip boundaries. The major implications is
                that the programmers can continue their used
                software development approaches and tools when
                introducing a new computing infrastructure. The
                main benefit is that the productivity can be
                maintained during this critical phase. In summary,
                our solution helps to mitigate the effects from a
                technology shift to integrated MPSoCs. Our
                approach is fully compliant with new automotive
                software development approaches like AUTOSAR.},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1060.html}
  }
  

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