MISRA - The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association

MISRA autocode
First documents released

MISRA has been developing a set of guidelines for users of control system modelling packages. The aim of the guidelines is to provide a set of rules, in a similar fashion to the MISRA C rules, which encourage good modelling practices and avoid poorly-defined features of the modelling language. In light of automotive industry trends, some rules will be aimed at the use of automatic code generators in safety-related systems.

MISRA has now released the first documents from this activity:

MISRA AC TL - Modelling style guidelines for the application of TargetLink in the context of automatic code generation
MISRA AC AGC - Guidelines for the application of MISRA-C:2004 in the context of automatic code generation

These documents are available to purchase from the MISRA webstore. In addition, an introductory document, MISRA AC INT, is available free-of-charge from the "Resources" section of the MISRA Bulletin Board.

Work is continuing on MISRA AC GMG (generic modelling guidelines) and MISRA AC SLSF (guidelines for users of Simulink and Stateflow). The latest drafts of these documents will be released for public review in the summer of 2008. If you would like to participate in the reviews, please download this questionnaire and return it to MISRA.