RECOMP - Reduced Certification Costs Using Trusted Multi-core Platforms

multi-core platforms, certification

The RECOMP (Reduced certification cost for trusted multi-core platforms)
research project will establish methods, tools and platforms for
enabling cost-efficient certification and re-certification of
safety-critical systems and mixed-criticality systems, i.e. systems
containing safety-critical and nonsafety-
critical components.
RECOMP
recognizes the fact that the increasing processing power of embedded
systems is mainly provided by increasing the number of processing cores.
The increased numbers of cores is commonly
regarded as a design challenge in the safety-critical area, as there are no established approaches to achieve certification.
At the same time there is an increased need for flexibility in the products in the safety-critical market.
This
need for flexibility puts new requirements on the customization and the
upgradability of both the non-safety and safety-critical critical part.
The difficulty with this is the large cost in both effort and money of
the re-certification of the modified software, which means that
companies cannot fully leverage the advantages of modular software
system.
RECOMP will provide reference designs and platform
architectures together with the required design methods and tools for
achieving cost-effective certification and re-certification of
mixed-criticality,
component based, multi-core systems. The aim of
RECOMP is to define a European standard reference technology for
mixed-criticality multi-core systems supported by the European tool
vendors participating in RECOMP.
The RECOMP project will bring clear
benefits in terms of cross-domain implementations of mixed criticality
systems in all domains addressed by project participants: automotive
systems, aerospace
systems, industrial control systems, lifts and transportation systems.
RECOMP
will thus provide solutions that will allow European industry to
increase its market share in the growing market of mixed-criticality
systems.

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