Interface based design of distributed embedded automotive software : The TITUS approach

Vehicle body electronic software has reached such a level of complexity and cost that methods focusing on reuse and seamless vehicle integration of networked ECUs are being heavily embraced. In this paper, the TITUS methodology is compared with established methods in computer science, namely UML. It is shown how the TITUS methodology shares the same concepts but extends them to proven engineering methods like simulation and automatic code generation for ECU networks.