SystemDesk
Modeling system architecture and generating virtual ECUs
SystemDesk is a system architecture tool that provides sophisticated and extensive support for modeling AUTOSAR architectures and systems for application software. Additionally, SystemDesk generates virtual ECUs (V-ECUs) out of the application software. The V-ECUs can be used as units under test with the dSPACE simulation platforms, such as the PC-based simulation platform VEOS for validating the ECU software.
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SystemDesk 5.5
Broadly Extended AUTOSAR Support, Format 3.0 for V-ECU Containers, and More
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Successful ECU Software Development with SystemDesk and EB tresos Studio
Webinar Recording: This webinar demonstrates how to develop ECU software from the software architecture to the basic software with SystemDesk and EB tresos Studio.
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Generating Virtual Electronic Control Units without AUTOSAR
In this webinar recording, dSPACE demonstrates how to generate virtual ECUs in non-AUTOSAR projects.
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Introducing AUTOSAR, Workflows and Tools
Webinar Recording: This webinar, hosted by dSPACE and Elektrobit, provides a basic introduction to the up-and-coming AUTOSAR standard for developing in-vehicle software.
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Integration of Elektrobit Basic Software in a Virtual ECU for Diagnostic Testing
In this free webinar recording, dSPACE and Elektrobit demonstrate how basic software modules can be integrated in a virtual ECU.
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Naturally Virtual
Testing new functions as soon as they become available – a task that requires flexibility and the frontloading of tests. For this purpose, Volkswagen relies on automatically generated virtual ECUs. The dSPACE tools SystemDesk and VEOS help developers generate and simulate the software.
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Smart Software, Smart Trucks
Safety, efficiency, and availability are the core requirements for commercial vehicles. Technology supplier WABCO has implemented a consistent process to optimize the development of safety-critical, reliable systems. It is based on a comprehensive tool chain in which SystemDesk and TargetLink pave the way to AUTOSAR- and ISO 26262-compliant development.
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Faster Engine Validation
Can you execute testing activities faster without the physical hardware? Tula, a Silicon Valley technology company, has seen a 50% reduction in time required to complete validation and verification activities since establishing a virtual validation environment.
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How to Simulate Adaptive AUTOSAR V-ECUs in VEOS
With VEOS, Linux-based ECUs can be tested early and efficiently, and synchronized with other simulation components.
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How Adaptive AUTOSAR Enables Autonomous Driving
The automotive industry is reinventing itself. With autonomous driving, the requirements for software architectures have changed fundamentally.
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What Are Virtual ECUs?
V-ECUs are not as mysterious as one may think: In the end, it boils down to enriching the code, AUTOSAR or not, with an automatically generated run-time environment and operating system to use it in a software-in-the-loop environment.
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Will Your ECU Software Still Function Correctly After Migrating to AUTOSAR?
Many companies are working on migrating their existing electronic control unit (ECU) software to AUTOSAR. This can often involve reworking much of the structure and rewriting the code in order to make it compliant to the standard.
- Efficient modeling, including plausibility checks and correction suggestions
- Flexible generation of virtual ECUs, e.g., with your own basic software, for early validation with VEOS
- Complete and documented API for automation
Basic Overview of AUTOSAR in the Context of dSPACE Virtual Validation
Application Areas
SystemDesk can be used for two application areas. As a system architecture tool, it provides sophisticated and extensive support for modeling AUTOSAR architectures and systems for application software. Comprehensive graphical support facilitates the first use but also enables efficient and error-reduced working in large-scale projects.
The second application area creating virtual ECUs (V-ECUs) for validating ECU software at an early development stage. V-ECUs contain series code for the functionalities to be tested, either at application level only or also including basic software. They can then be used as unit under test with the dSPACE simulation platforms, such as the PC-based simulation platform VEOS.
Key Benefits
- Efficient use due to convenient dialogs, editors, and diagrams
- Easy and fast generation of V-ECUs based on AUTOSAR and non-AUTOSAR software for validation purposes
- V-ECUs including application software and dSPACE basic software for testing application software or your own basic software for integration tests
- Reliable project quality by means of comprehensive rule-based validation of consistency and correctness
- Convenient development process due to the automation of recurring tasks or remote control with third-party tools via the automation API
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Application Areas
The SystemDesk Modeling Module enables the modeling of Classic AUTOSAR and Adaptive AUTOSAR software architectures and systems containing one or more networked AUTOSAR ECUs. It supports the software architecture development process from modeling software components (SWCs) to specifying system aspects including the hardware topology and network communication.
Key Benefits
- Easy workflow and intuitive working environment
- Easy start in working with AUTOSAR
- Ideally suited for large production projects
- Reliable data exchange between different project members
Application Areas
For virtual validation applications, the SystemDesk V-ECU Generation Module lets you configure and generate virtual ECUs (V-ECUs). To create a V-ECU, software components, functions or C code from different sources can be combined in SystemDesk. To test the system's overall behavior, V-ECUs can be used for PC-based simulation with VEOS as soon as the C code implementation is available.
Depending on your test focus, you can do the following:
- Create V-ECUs from AUTOSAR application software by additionally integrating dSPACE basic software into the V-ECU
- Create V-ECUs from complete hardware-independent AUTOSAR software, including application and basic software
- Create V-ECUs from non-AUTOSAR code
- Create V-ECUs from adaptive applications including a Middleware
- Create V-ECUs for Linux applications
Key Benefits
- Support of Classic AUTOSAR, Adaptive AUTOSAR, and non-AUTOSAR-based approaches
- Guided creation of V-ECUs on the basis of the AUTOSAR software architecture
- Automatic configuration of dSPACE basic software for the simple and fast preparation of V-ECUs onapplication level
- Automatic configuration of production BSW that can be generated with third-party BSW generator tools and used to generate V-ECUs (available for some modules)
- Integration of production BSW above the Microcontroller Abstraction Layer (MCAL)
- Automatic processes for V-ECU generation possible due to a complete automation API
- Comprehensive validation of the software architecture model for direct feedback in case of problems
Working with SystemDesk
SystemDesk supports the development process with numerous features for intuitive working:
- AUTOSAR-Compliant Modeling
Use SystemDesk’s authoring capabilities to create and edit software architecture and system descriptions according to the AUTOSAR standard. - Generation of Virtual ECUs for Simulation
Use SystemDesk to generate virtual ECUs (V-ECUs) that include dSPACE's or your own basic software modules to get a realistic representation of the real ECU. The V-ECUs are based on AUTOSAR- or non-AUTOSAR-compliant code. Simulate the V-ECU with VEOS to validate your software in a PC-based simulation. - Dialogs and Diagrams
For an easy and efficient capture and configuration of common AUTOSAR data, SystemDesk offers convenient, preconfigured dialogs. Additionally, special diagrams of the software architecture and system elements help keep an overview of your model. - Data Exchange with TargetLink
You can exchange data seamlessly between SystemDesk and dSPACE's production code generator, TargetLink. This gives you a secure process for including the actual functionality in the software architecture in a model-based development environment. - Project Validation
Use SystemDesk’s validation functionality to ensure that your AUTOSAR architecture is complete and consistent before giving it to a project partner for basic software (BSW) configuration and before generating a V-ECU – and save time by finding problems as early as possible. You can define your own validation rules to also check compliance with company-specific project requirements. - Complete and Documented Tool API
Use the open tool API to automate recurring design tasks and extend the features of SystemDesk according to project-specific requirements or even use it to create a completely automated tool chain for V-ECU generation. - Application Software and BSW Integration
For testing the ECU software, you can either combine your application software with dSPACE basic software (BSW) modules or import your own BSW. Importing your own production BSW lets you test your basic software or functions that require realistic BSW input, such as diagnostics functions. If your test focus is the application software, using the dSPACE BSW is more convenient, as it is automatically generated and configured according to the systems requirements.
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