Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Cadence Design Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 2 October 2003

Collaboration targets automotive control

Cadence is working with dSpace, the world's leading supplier of tools for developing and testing new mechatronic control systems

The collaboration will support the Cadence vision, flows, and methodologies for the design of distributed safety critical control applications for car electronics. "We are happy to collaborate with dSpace, as the company has a long-standing reputation of competence in the area of automotive development tools", said Paolo Giusto, Cadence Automotive Team Marketing Director.

"We believe this collaboration can provide benefits to our customers by merging our Cadence automotive system design solution with the dSpace TargetLink production code generator, therefore enabling our vision of a distributed model-based design for safety critical automotive applications".

"Customers are increasingly asking for integrated solutions in this area", said Thomas Thomsen, dSpace TargetLink Product Manager.

"There is a demand for a tool chain that starts with system architecture design of distributed electronic control unit (ECU) networks and provides support down to the level of production-quality software components.

We are committed to supporting such solutions".

By entering into this co-operation, Cadence has joined forces with the market leader in production code generation for its new solution.

In collaboration with leading-edge European automotive companies, Cadence has been adapting and extending existing components of its system-level design technologies for automotive-specific uses, creating an innovative distributed model-based design environment for car electronic architectures.

The environment extends the classical approach - targeting a single electronic control unit (ECU) at a time, from specification to software implementation - to a workflow where the entire system, constituted by a network of ECUs, is modeled and validated by running simulations on a host workstation.

The workflow supports the shift from physical prototyping to virtual prototyping, by providing capabilities for model import, integration, and simulation before hardware is available.

The workflow also supports early fault injection and analysis on the virtual prototype.

Functional models from third-party tools can be imported and re-used within the Cadence automotive system design solution dSpace TargetLink plays a major role in the import of Mathworks Simulink models.

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