From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a3ca574fc2007430 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Stanley R. Allen" Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry Date: 1996/11/05 Message-ID: <327FCD73.2781@hso.link.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 194803900 references: <55ea3g$m1j@newsbf02.news.aol.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: NASA/Johnson Space Center mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP19) Date: 1996-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: ETHoierman wrote: > > I recently read an article in EE Times concerning the Automobile Industry This was mentioned in the RISKS forum (comp.risks): --------------------------- RISKS ------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 09:29:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Daniel P. B. Smith" Subject: ``Software explosion rattles car makers'' Automakers [are facing] runaway growth in the lines of code their engineers must write and manage as microprocessors take over automotive functions... ``Software is where the problem is today,'' said William Powers, VP of research at Ford. ``Today, if you change a line of code, you're looking at the potential for some major problems. Hardware is very predictable, very repeatable. Software is in much more of a transient state.'' The volume of code is exploding as processors proliferate behind the dashboard and under the hood. The typical auto has 10 to 15 processors; high-end cars can have as many as 80 ... ``An engine controller can have 100,000 lines of code'' [according to a Bosch VP]. [``Software explosion rattles car makers'', *Electronic Engineering Times*, 28 Oct 1996, front page.] Daniel P. B. Smith dpbsmith@world.std.com [Auto-mation has certainly arrived. PGN] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hmmmm... large real-time embedded systems with maintenance problems? -- Stanley Allen s_allen@hso.link.com