Sophia Kohle
Managing Director
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MXAM in Action
Best Practices for Modeling Guidelines and Architectural Design Principles
In-House Training
This training class introduces the basics of modeling guidelines and static model analysis. You will work with MATLAB/Simulink, Stateflow, TargetLink, and Embedded Coder models. You will learn how to create MISRA and ISO 26262–compliant models using proven modeling standards and best practices.
The main focus is the integration of the MES Model Examiner® (MXAM) into your workflow.
Through hands-on sessions, you will practice how to apply guidelines with MXAM.
You will learn how to check models and ensure guideline compliance.
You will also develop a clear workflow for:
- Analyzing and correcting models
- Justifying deviations before a review
- Adapting and integrating MXAM into your development environment
What is more, you will find out how to perform a structure and complexity analysis of a model. The resulting metrics serve as the basis for assessing the architecture, complexity, and size of a model.
Target Audience
This course is targeted at anyone who wants to learn how to use MXAM professionally. It is designed for function developers, testers, test managers, and quality managers. The focus is on model-based development of embedded software using MATLAB/Simulink, Embedded Coder, or TargetLink.Share your experiences and discuss with other tool users.
Highlights
- Presentation of proven modeling guidelines
- Automated guideline checking and correction with MXAM
- Review of guideline violations and accounting for discrepancies
- Creating custom guideline documents in MXAM
- Toolchain and continuous integration
- Assessing architectural design principles
- Complexity analysis of models
Agenda
Day 1
- Architectural design principles in model-based design
- Model quality through static guideline checking
- The purpose of guidelines and metrics
- Standard guideline documents
- General workflow
- Structure and use of the user interface
- Reporting: overview, result navigation, model linking, auto repair, re-run, annotations, and export
- Performing guideline analyses
- Repairing guideline violations
- Justifying guideline violations
- Saving and exporting reports
- Model structure analysis
- Introduction to complexity metrics
- Calculating model complexity
- Measures to reduce model complexity
- Identification of ineffective interfaces and model clones
- Analyzing and evaluating model metrics
- Identifying complex subsystems, ineffective interfaces, and clones
- Refactoring of model structure
- Selected guidelines for Simulink, Stateflow, and TargetLink with topics such as layout, naming conventions, dataflow, typing, and scaling
- Performing analyses of a demo model with the starter set in MXAM
- Evaluating and discussing specific findings
Day 2
- Creating a project with all analysis-relevant settings
- Creating a guideline document to define a set of guidelines
- Configuring global and check parameters for a customer-specific guideline analysis
- Creating an ignore-list to disregard model elements
- Creating and configuring MXAM projects, ignore lists, and guideline documents
- Setting up projects for distributed development: reporting, annotations, artifacts
- Creating a user-defined guideline document: authoring, versioning, and central repository in library
- Creating custom libraries
- Creating custom guidelines
- ISO 26262 requirements that can be covered with modeling guidelines
- Other aspects: observance of ranges, compatibility of interfaces, etc.
- Performing analyses of demo or customer models with an extended set
- Evaluating and discussing specific findings
- Exporting the current project settings into a MATLAB batch script
- Executing batch analyses via the MATLAB command line
- Various interfaces for continuous integration
- Performing analyses with the MES Jenkins Plugin
- Hook functions to customize the analysis
- Creating, adjusting, and running MATLAB batch analyses for automated execution
- Integrating hook functions to meet toolchain-specific requirements
Customer Opinion
Available as in-house training class
- Exclusively for your team or organization.
- We adapt the content, starting times, and agenda to your specific needs and challenges.
- Delivered either online or in person at your organization.
