DEVICE FOR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF EMBEDDED SOFTWARE OF VEHICLE

• US 20120144241A1
• Filed: 04/21/2011
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Formal Works Inc., Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Formal Works Inc., Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Inventors: Son, Jung Duck, Park, Se Young, Kim, Tai Hyo, Bang, Ho Jung
• Application Number:
  US13/091,516
• Publication Number:
  US 20120144241A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/38.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/323 Visualisation of programs or trace data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3612 by runtime analysis performance monitoring G06F11/3466

Abstract

The present invention provides a device for conducting dynamic analysis of embedded software of a vehicle. More particularly, it relates to a device for dynamically analyzing embedded software of the vehicle to detect real time errors of embedded software based on the analysis. More specifically, a data communication unit communicates data in real time with an electronic unit of the vehicle; and a control unit that monitors the condition of one or more hardware components which are used by embedded software of an electric field based on the data received through the data communication unit, and thereby outputs the monitored result accordingly.

Claims

1. A device for dynamic analysis of embedded software of a vehicle, comprising:

a data communication unit that communicates data in real time with an electronic unit of the vehicle; and

a control unit that monitors the condition of one or more computer processing units (CPUs) and a memory which are used by the embedded software of the electric field, based on the data received through the data communication unit, wherein the results of the analysis are output to a user on a display.

2. The device for dynamic analysis of embedded software of a vehicle of claim 1, wherein the control unit monitors a call stack depth of the embedded software of the memory.

3. The device for dynamic analysis of embedded software of a vehicle of claim 1, wherein the control unit monitors CPU usage for the embedded software.

4. The device for dynamic analysis of embedded software of a vehicle of claim 1, wherein the control unit monitors error codes detected by a software platform of the embedded software.

5. The device for dynamic analysis of embedded software of a vehicle of claim 1, wherein the control unit monitors a data value for a specific address of the memory and changes the data value for the address in accordance with input of a user.

6. A method conducting a dynamic analysis of embedded software of a vehicle, comprising:

communicating data via, a data communication unit in a vehicle, in real time between the data communication unit and one or more electronic units of the vehicle to detect errors in the embedded software;

monitoring the conditions of one or more hardware components which are used by the embedded software, based on the data received through the data communication unit; and

displaying the results of the analysis to a user on a display.

7. The method for conducting the dynamic analysis of embedded software of the vehicle of claim 6, further comprising monitoring a call stack depth of the embedded software of the memory.

8. The method for conducting the dynamic analysis of embedded software of the vehicle of claim 6, further comprising monitoring CPU usage for the embedded software.

9. The method for dynamic analysis of embedded software of the vehicle of claim 6, further comprising monitoring error codes detected by a software platform of the embedded software.

10. The method for conducting the dynamic analysis of embedded software of the vehicle of claim 6, further comprising monitoring a data value for a specific address of the memory and changes the data value for the address in accordance with input of a user.

11. A computer readable medium for dynamic analysis of embedded software of a vehicle containing executable program instructions executed by a processor;

comprising;

program instructions that communicate data from an electronic unit installed in a vehicle in real time to detect errors in the embedded software; and

program instructions that monitor the condition of one or more hardware components which are used by the embedded software, based on the data received, wherein the results of the analysis are output to a user on a display.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 11, further comprising program instructions that monitor a call stack depth of the embedded software of the memory.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 11, further comprising program instructions that monitor CPU usage for the embedded software.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 11, further comprising program instructions that monitor error codes detected by a software platform of the embedded software.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 11, further comprising program instructions that monitor a data value for a specific address of the memory and change the data value for the address in accordance with input of a user.