National Support for Project Reduced Certification Costs Using Trusted Multi-core Platforms

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 mixedcriticality
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.