TASKING and Synopsys cooperate to provide safer automotive ECUs

Octo­ber 10, 2023

Inte­grat­ing debug­ging tools into vir­tu­al ECU plat­forms leads to safer ECUs and speeds time to mar­ket.

Munich, Ger­many, 10 Octo­ber 2023 – TASK­ING’s debug­ging tools now sup­port the Syn­op­sys VDK (Vir­tu­al­iz­er Develop­ment Kit) and Sil­ver vir­tu­al ECU (Elec­tron­ic Con­trol Unit) plat­forms. Devel­op­ers can now access a com­pre­hen­sive suite of tools that increase develop­ment effi­cien­cy while improv­ing vehi­cle safe­ty and reli­a­bil­i­ty. This step will help reduce time-to-mar­ket and increase the qual­i­ty of soft­ware in vehi­cles.

For over 30 years, TASK­ING’s debug­ging tools have been used to devel­op embed­ded designs to ensure func­tion­al safe­ty. TASKING tools pro­vide com­pre­hen­sive debug­ging, tim­ing, and cov­er­age analy­sis. This pro­vides in-depth insights into ECUs and embed­ded RTOS, with a focus on AUTOSAR.

The Syn­op­sys Vir­tu­al­iz­er and Sil­ver soft­ware envi­ron­ments allow for sim­u­la­tion of ECUs on dif­fer­ent hard­ware abstrac­tion lev­els from Level 4 (Vir­tu­al­iz­er, VDKs) to abstrac­tions on Level 1-3 (Sil­ver) accord­ing to the prostep vir­tu­al ECU cat­e­go­riza­tion. Fur­ther­more, the Syn­op­sys tool­ing enables co-sim­u­la­tion with mod­els of dif­fer­ent tools (e.g., MATLAB / Simulink, Dymo­la, Sim­u­la­tionX, MapleS­im, AMEs­im, GT-Power, axisuite) and inte­grates into auto­mo­tive work­flows to front­load inte­gra­tion, val­i­da­tion and debug­ging. The use of vir­tu­al ECUs cre­ates an ideal envi­ron­ment for the develop­ment and val­i­da­tion of auto­mo­tive soft­ware.

By inte­grat­ing TASK­ING’s debug­ging tools with Syn­op­sys Sil­ver, users can seam­less­ly switch between vir­tu­al and phys­i­cal ECUs. The same tools and automa­tion scripts can be used with­out chang­ing the user’s process. In this way, the tools enable devel­op­ers to iden­ti­fy and fix poten­tial errors and secu­ri­ty vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties early on, which sig­nif­i­cant­ly improves vehi­cle safe­ty and reli­a­bil­i­ty.

Christoph Her­zog, CTO of TASKING, is excit­ed about the coop­er­a­tion with Syn­op­sys: “The inte­gra­tion of TASKING debug­gers with Syn­op­sys vir­tu­al pro­to­typ­ing solu­tions is an impor­tant step towards a safer future for the auto­mo­tive indus­try. The inte­gra­tion of our solu­tions enables man­u­fac­tur­ers to devel­op their prod­ucts faster and more effi­cient­ly.”

“The auto­mo­tive indus­try is accel­er­at­ing soft­ware-defined vehi­cle val­i­da­tion through the deploy­ment of Syn­op­sys solu­tions for Elec­tron­ics Dig­i­tal Twins,” said Tom De Schut­ter VP of Engi­neer­ing for the Sys­tems Design Group at Syn­op­sys. “The inte­gra­tion of Syn­op­sys Sil­ver and Vir­tu­al­iz­er with TASKING debug­ging tools deliv­ers a seam­less solu­tion for soft­ware engi­neers to accel­er­ate soft­ware develop­ment and time-to-mar­ket for their advanced auto­mo­tive sys­tems.”

The col­lab­o­ra­tion between TASKING and Syn­op­sys start­ed back in 2021 and since then, TASK­ING’s debug­ging tools in com­bi­na­tion with vECUs cre­at­ed with Syn­op­sys vir­tu­al pro­to­typ­ing solu­tions have been suc­cess­ful­ly deployed in the field. The inte­gra­tion is now avail­able to all users and enables auto­mo­tive man­u­fac­tur­ers to sig­nif­i­cant­ly accel­er­ate ECU develop­ment and test­ing. For more infor­ma­tion on TASKING tools and Syn­op­sys vir­tu­al ECU plat­forms, visit www.tasking.com and www.synopsys.com.

About TASKING

TASKING is a lead­ing provider of develop­ment tools head­quar­tered in Munich, Ger­many, offer­ing high-per­for­mance, high qual­i­ty, safe­ty & secu­ri­ty-ori­ent­ed embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment tools for multi-core archi­tec­tures.

TASK­ING’s develop­ment tools are used by auto­mo­tive man­u­fac­tur­ers and sup­pli­ers, as well as in adja­cent mar­kets around the world to real­ize high-per­for­mance appli­ca­tions in safe­ty-crit­i­cal areas.

The TASKING Embed­ded Soft­ware Develop­ment solu­tions pro­vide an indus­try-lead­ing ecosys­tem for your entire soft­ware develop­ment process. Each TASKING com­pil­er is designed for a cer­tain archi­tec­ture and meets the spe­cif­ic require­ments of your indus­try, includ­ing auto­mo­tive, indus­tri­al, telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and dat­a­com.

As the rec­og­nized leader in high-qual­i­ty, fea­ture- and safe­ty-com­pli­ant embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment tools, TASKING enables you to cre­ate code with best-in-class size and per­for­mance with com­pil­ers, debug­gers and RTOS sup­port for indus­try-lead­ing micro­proces­sors and micro­con­trollers.

Since Feb­ru­ary 2021, TASKING has been major­i­ty-owned by finan­cial investor FSN Cap­i­tal, which has put the group on a long-term growth path fol­low­ing a suc­cess­ful carve-out. For more infor­ma­tion visit www.tasking.com or fol­low us on https://www.linkedin.com/company/tasking-inc.