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The need for requirements traceability and verification is typically imposed on automotive electronics suppliers as a contractual requirement. With increasing frequency, vendors are recognizing that ...

Establishing the technical requirements is part of designing, developing and testing a new software system. In some cases, you may have to change the requirements several times along the way to meet ...

Traceability is becoming increasingly important in most engineering projects, if only on the grounds of ‘good practice,’ and it is specifically required for projects that have to meet safety standards ...

In large projects, a single contractual document often known as the Contract End Item (CEI) governs the final product design. Each requirement of the contract is individually numbered to allow for ...

With recent quality concerns, the automotive industry has started looking seriously at ways to improve software development. The increased use of electronic systems that affect the car’s safety has ...

Developing functional safety systems, including all the components such as the system-on-chip (SoC) and IP, hinges on the ability to meet the stringent automotive functional safety requirements such ...

Incomplete or missed requirements, omissions, ambiguous product features, lack of user involvement, unrealistic customer expectations, and the proverbial scope creep can result in cost overruns, ...

A subrequirement that derives from multiple primary requirements can be achieved using the concatenation of the cells in the reference coupled with a line-feed character. For example, if CEI ...