ESSAVis: A Framework to Visualize Safety Aspects in Embedded Systems

In this paper, we present a framework, called Embedded-System Safety Aspects Visualization (ESSAVis), that is a system prototype designed to analyze the safety aspects of embedded systems. The ESSAVis prototype provides a 3D environment that aids in detecting infected components in the hardware of the target embedded system. The prototype also provides an abstract representation for the failure mechanisms of the target embedded system, including the software structure and failure path information for the underlying safety scenarios at a certain moment in the system’s life. The results indicate clearness of our proposed method over existing techniques and promise acceleration in performance of the failure detection process in embedded systems for critical applications.

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