dSPACE Focuses on AUTOSAR

AUTOSAR-compatible tools added to product range

Automotive software developers are increasingly looking into software and system architectures as a means of coping with the growing level of interaction between function modules.
dSPACE is therefore giving AUTOSAR compatibility top priority in product development. SystemDesk, the new architecture tool, supports users in planning, implementing, and integrating complex system architectures and distributed software systems. TargetLink, the production code generator, has special AUTOSAR modules for generating AUTOSAR-compliant product code automatically.
Together, SystemDesk and TargetLink provide an integrated solution for developing software for electronic control units (ECUs).

Products with AUTOSAR Integration
SystemDesk supports the AUTOSAR standard. For example, developers can create new AUTOSAR software components, or load existing ones to SystemDesk for further processing. SystemDesk provides a run-time environment (RTE) based on dSPACE’s years of experience in code generation and optimization with TargetLink, the company’s production code generator. Application software components from SystemDesk can be linked to basic software via standardized interfaces in the RTE generation.
SystemDesk works hand in hand with TargetLink, which can be used to generate production code for the software components in SystemDesk architecture models. From Version 2.2, a special TargetLink AUTOSAR module allows AUTOSAR-compliant generation of production code, forging the link between function models and AUTOSAR software components.

Activities at AUTOSAR
dSPACE has been a Premium Member in the AUTOSAR development partnership since April 2004. The company is actively involved in the field of software component templates and cooperating intensively on specifications for standardized electric/electronic architecture concepts. dSPACE is continuously adding further AUTOSAR-compliant tools to its product range.

Paderborn, February 2007