The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA) has announced a public review of its autocode guidelines. These guidelines have been produced to “encourage good modelling practices and avoid poorly-defined features of the modelling language” in control system modelling packages.

The guidelines are divided into three areas:

• MISRA SLSF - guidelines for users of Simulink and Stateflow.
• MISRA TL - guidelines for users of Targetlink.
• MISRA ACG - guidelines for compliance with MISRA C in automatically-generated code.

The review is open until 31st March 2007. In order to participate you have to complete and send off a form at http://www.misra.org.uk/misra_ac_eoi.pdf. (NB The form gives a deadline of 28th February but this deadline has changed.)

Unfortunately I was unable to secure a speaker from MISRA to talk about the guidelines at Code Generation 2007. Maybe next year…