Verification of Temporal Properties in Automotive Embedded Software

Djones Lettnin, Pradeep K. Nalla, Jurgen Ruf, Thomas Kropf, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Tobias Kirsten, Volker Schonknecht, Stephan Reitemeyer
2008 2008 Design, Automation and Test in Europe  
The amount of software in embedded systems has increased significantly over the last years and, therefore, the verification of embedded software is of fundamental importance. One of the main problems in embedded software is to verify variables and functions based on temporal properties. Formal property verification using model checker often suffers from the state space explosion problem when a large software design is considered. In this paper, we propose two new approaches to integrate
more » ... ns in the verification of embedded software using simulation-based verification. Firstly, we extended a SystemC hardware temporal checker with interfaces in order to monitor the embedded software variables and functions that are stored in a microprocessor memory model. Secondly, we derived a SystemC model from the original C program in order to integrate directly with the Sys-temC temporal checker. We performed a case study on an embedded software from automotive industry which is responsible for controlling read and write requests to a non-volatile memory. * CNPq scholarship holder, Brazil. † This work has been funded by the BMBF and edacentrum within project FEST (01M3072).
doi:10.1109/date.2008.4484680 dblp:conf/date/LettninNRKRKSR08 fatcat:6ahb3njc55fvvgszhjfq6dr2ia