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Nowadays, there is a strong trend in automotive industry towards even more complex control systems for modern combustion engines. This trend is rooted in the customer’s rising demand for even more driving comfort on the one hand, and in the tightening of exhaust rules for cars on the other hand. Due to this trend, the problem of engine management has turned from a mechanical process to an IT process.
However, due to fast product cycles and the demand for high software quality, modern IT development processes need a high degree of code reusability. This can be facilitated by the use of special operating systems, which allow to abstract the control software from the underlying hardware.
For that reason, automotive industry has defined an operation system standard called OSEK. Nevertheless, this standard is not suitable for distributed applications. Hence, the industry has already defined another standard especially for this purpose, which is called OSEK-COM.
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