OSEK

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OSEK (Offene Systeme und deren Schnittstellen für die Elektronik in Kraftfahrzeugen; English: "Open Systems and their Interfaces for the Electronics in Motor Vehicles") is a standards body that has produced specifications for an embedded operating system, a communications stack, and a network management protocol for automotive embedded systems. It has also produced other related specifications. OSEK was designed to provide a standard software architecture for the various electronic control units (ECUs) throughout a car.

OSEK was founded in 1993 by a German automotive company consortium (BMW, Robert Bosch GmbH, DaimlerChrysler, Opel, Siemens, and Volkswagen Group) and the University of Karlsruhe. In 1994, the French cars manufacturers Renault and PSA Peugeot Citroën, which had a similar project called VDX (Vehicle Distributed eXecutive), joined the consortium.

OSEK is an open standard, published by a consortium founded by the automobile industry.

OSEKtime specifies a standard for time-triggered real-time operating systems.

Some parts of OSEK are standardized in ISO 17356.

[edit] See also

• IEC 61508 is a standard for programmable electronic safety-related systems.
• safety standards
• Controller Area Network (CAN)

[edit] External links

• osek-vdx.org
• TOPPERS-OSEK is a free, open source (GPL license)
• openOSEK is a free, open source (LGPL license)
• Trampoline is another open source implementation (LGPL license)
• PICOS18
• nxtOSEK is an open source implementation for the Mindstorms NXT robots
• HSE Free OSEK is a university project, based on uCOS II, in German

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