Embedded Systems Design Automation

CPA (compositional performance analysis) is an approach to formal performance analysis of large embedded systems that has been developed at IDA in many projects over more than 10 years. CPA has been commercialized as SymTA/S by the IDA spin-off, Symtavision. SymTA/S is a comprehensive Software-Toolbox for formal performance analysis and optimization of embedded systems. It is used in regular design processes throughout the international automotive industry and has been applied in other domains, such as avionics. Research at IDA continues with new models and analysis techniques using the research tool pyCPA.  

Current research

• pyCPA(Python implementation of Compositional Performance Analysis)
  Publically available, extensible version of CPA, used for research at IDA and elsewhere
  Project staff:  Leonie Köhler, Johannes Schlatow, Mischa Möstl, Dr. Sophie Quinton (now INRIA), and many more
   
• Typical Worst Case Analysis
  Compositional Performance Analysis (CPA) of typical worst-case system performance
  Project staff:Leonie Köhler, Dr. Sophie Quinton (now INRIA), with contributions from Sebastian Tobuschat, Johannes Schlatow
  Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Industry
   
• RT-proofs
  Formal proofs for real-time analysis algorithms
  Project staff (IDA): Leonie Köhler, Borislav Nikolic
  Research collaboration between TU Braunschweig, INRIA, MPI-SWS, Onera and Verimag
  Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)

Many related projects with industry are executed by the TTZ "Embedded Systems" of the TU Braunschweig innovation center iTUBS

• UNICARagil (Disruptive modular architecture for agile, autonomous vehicle concepts)
  Modelling and analysis of a service oriented software architecture according to hard safety and real-time requirements. Concepts for the deterministic realization of end-to-end latencies focusing on network communication.
  Project research staff (IDA): Jonas Peeck,Kai Björn Gemlau, Mischa Möstl, Johannes Schlatow
  The Project UNICARagil is a collaboration of 7 Universities, 16 chairs and 6 industrial partners
  Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BmBF)
   
• IPF (Information Processing Factory)
  Reaching the physical limits of semiconductor technology, future integrated circuits will be increasingly hard to operate. In a transatlantic cooperation, the IPF project opens a novel perspective by applying concepts of factory operation to future many-core architectures.
  Project research staff (IDA): Thawra Kadeed, Eberle Rambo 
  Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and National Science Foundation (NSF)
   
• ARAMIS 2  (Automotive, Railway and Avionic Multicore Systems) 
  Multi- and Manycore Architectures for Safety Critical Embedded Systems in Transport Applications (Automotive, Avionics, Trains)
  Project Research Staff: Sebastian Tobuschat, Adam Kostrzewa
  Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BmBF)
   
• IDAMC (Integrated Dependable Architecture for Many Cores)
  Configurable manycore platform infrastructure used by many projects, such as RECOMP, CERTAINTY, ASTEROID, ARAMIS, EMC2
   
• ERIKA (Elektromobilität mit Redundanter Intelligenter Kommunikations-Architektur)
  OFDM based future in-vehicle network
  Project Research staff:Marie-Terese Harnau
  Funding: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi)

       In collaboration of 8 TU Braunschweig professors plus Ph.D. students, the DFG funded Research Group CCC pursues a novel approach to change in critical applications
 

• Project A1: Architecture and Mechanisms of the Multi-Change Control Layer (MCCL)
  Project lead:Rolf Ernst
  IDA Project research staff:Johannes Schlatow
   
• Project B3: Safety and Availability
  Project lead: Rolf Ernst,Harald Michalik
  IDA Project research staff:Mischa Möstl, Björn Fiethe

• BASIS (Building Automation durch ein Skalierbares & Intelligentes System) (EA and DM&DA)
  (engl. Building Automation with a scalable and smart system)
  Networked embedded platform approach integrating building automation, smart energy, and medical/AAL applications
  project description currently only in German
  Project research staff: Dr. Harald Schrom (coordinator), Michael Meier, et al.
  Funding: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi)

Spin-off Symtavision (now part of Luxoft)