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Figure 3.46: Loss and duplication of data due to under- and oversampling. Considering under- and oversampling, two end-to-end latency semantics are of interest for automotive systems and can thus be expressed with the AUTOSAR timing extensions. These are the age of a certain response and the reaction to a certain stimulus. The data age timing constraint is mainly important in control engineering, but may appear in all domains. Here the focus is from the response perspective rather than from the stimulus perspective. In other words, the assumption is that last is best, i.e., it is accepted/tolerated that a value is overwritten along the path from stimulus to response. When for example an actuator value is periodically updated, it is of importance that the corresponding input values are not too old. In this case the constrained time of importance is the delay from the latest stimulus to a given response. The reaction time constraint is utilized when the first reaction to a stimulus is of importance. This is usually the case in body electronics, but may also be the case in other domains. One example is the time it takes from a button is pressed to the light is switched on. Another example, from the chassis domain, is the time from the brake pedal is pressed until the brakes are activated. In both cases the constrained time of importance is the delay from a given stimulus to the first corresponding response.