As almost no other technology, embedded systems is an essential element of many innovations in automotive engineering. New functions and improvements of already existing functions, as well as the compliance with traffic regulations and customer requirements, have only become possible by the increasing use of electronic systems, especially in the fields of driving, safety, reliability, and functionality. Along with the functionalities that increase in number and have to cooperate, the complexity of the entire system will increase.

Synergy effects resulting from distributed application functionalities via several electronic control devies, exchanging information through the network brings about more complex system architectures with many different sub-networks, operating with different velocities and different protocol implementations.

To manage the increasing complexity of these systems, a deterministic behaviour of the control units and the communication network must be provided for, in particular when dealing with a distributed functionality.

From Specification to Embedded Systems Application documents recent approaches and results presented at the International Embedded Systems Symposium (IESS 2005), which was held in August 2005 in Manaus (Brazil) and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing ( IFIP ).

The topics which have been chosen for this working conference are very timely: design methodology, modeling, specification, software synthesis, power management, formal verification, testing, network, communication systems, distributed control systems, resource management and special aspects in system design.

Presents the most current and timely research in embedded systems, with a specific emphasis on applications within the automotive industry

Inhalt
Design Methodology.- Domain-Crossing Software Product Lines in Embedded Automotive Systems.- Mechatronics Design and Verification.- Modeling and Specification.- Pattern-based Analysis in Distributed Development of Embedded Systems.- An Embedded SW Design Exploration Approach based on UML Estimation Tools.- Software Synthesis and Power Management.- Embedded Hard Real-Time Software Synthesis considering Dispatcher Overheads.- Formal Verification and Testing.- Specification-based Testing of Real-Time Embedded Systems.- Enhancing Interaction Support in the CORBA Component Model.- Network and Communication Systems.- Adaptable Switch Boxes as On-Chip Routing Nodes for Networks-On-Chip.- Distributed Control Systems.- Integration of Two Complementary Time-Triggered Technologies: TMO and TTP.- Towards Run-Time Partitioning of a Real-Time Operating System for Reconfigurable Systems on a Chip.- Partitioning Metrics for Improved Performance and Economy of Distributed Embedded Systems.