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Entering a New Era with Linux-Based Automotive Software-in-the-Loop Test Tools

Trends such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) make software the differentiating factor in the automotive industry. To keep pace with innovations and to shorten development cycles, testing of electronic control units (ECUs) must shift-left. The use of software-in-the-loop (SiL) simulations is a recognized and established approach to frontload test activities to earlier development phases. Recently, automotive… Read More »Entering a New Era with Linux-Based Automotive Software-in-the-Loop Test Tools

Using ST Stellar MCU Virtual Prototypes to Deliver Next-Generation Software-Defined Vehicles

Automotive microcontrollers for next-generation software-defined vehicles need to deliver higher software capabilities. ST Stellar Integration MCUs offer safe, secure, and deterministic solutions for new vehicle architectures. The use of virtual prototypes is a key enabler to solving the emerging, complex software development challenges throughout the automotive design and test supply chain, such as feature integration,… Read More »Using ST Stellar MCU Virtual Prototypes to Deliver Next-Generation Software-Defined Vehicles

From Virtual ECU to Real Vehicle: Continuous Testing of Functional Requirements

Today, most of the software functions in a car can be tested efficiently using virtual ECU models and DevOps engineering methods. However, final acceptance tests with real vehicles are still mandatory, even though they are expensive and time-consuming. The prevalent problem is the gap between automated virtual methods and manual testing, which further increases costs… Read More »From Virtual ECU to Real Vehicle: Continuous Testing of Functional Requirements

How to Achieve Seamless Deployment of Level 3 Virtual ECUs for Automotive Digital Twins

Driven by the trend towards software-defined vehicles (SDV), more complex software stacks are now being integrated into innovative automotive E/E architectures. Today the early integration testing of automotive software is already supported by using virtual ECUs (vECUs). However, the production basic software (BSW) is often not included because the virtualization of the hardware-specific microcontroller abstraction layer (MCAL)… Read More »How to Achieve Seamless Deployment of Level 3 Virtual ECUs for Automotive Digital Twins

Accelerate Software Innovation Through Target-Optimized Code Generation and Virtual Prototypes

Increasingly complex automotive systems are driving the need for new and powerful E/E architectures, and new technology is emerging that offers a significant computational increase compared to previous generation SoCs. To deliver next-generation, differentiated software solutions, model-based design (MBD) workflows must be deployed to handle this new level of complexity. Code generation solutions that optimize… Read More »Accelerate Software Innovation Through Target-Optimized Code Generation and Virtual Prototypes