TASKING announces new Multi Core Performance Tool

June 2, 2020

A sim­ple and cost-effec­tive tool for opti­miz­ing the per­for­mance of auto­mo­tive embed­ded appli­ca­tions uti­liz­ing the Infi­neon TriCore/AURIX ™ micro­con­trollers.

Con­tacts

Flo­ri­an Süß­mair 
TASKING 
florian.suessmair@tasking.com

Amers­foort, Nether­lands – June 2, 2020 - TASKING, the embed­ded soft­ware divi­sion of Altium (ASX:ALU), today announced its new Multi Core Per­for­mance Tool (MCPT) for micro­con­trollers from Infi­neon. This new tool enables TASKING and Infi­neon cus­tomers to quick­ly mea­sure and ana­lyze indi­vid­ual proces­sor loads as well as inter­pret the inter­ac­tion of soft­ware tasks run­ning on the AURIX™ multi-core devices.

The auto­mo­tive safe­ty con­troller mar­ket has evolved from rel­a­tive­ly sim­ple sin­gle-core Elec­tron­ic Con­trol Units (ECU’s) to com­plex multi-core sys­tems.  The addi­tion­al band­width and per­for­mance gains from multi-core hard­ware has been coun­ter­act­ed with increased soft­ware require­ments for redun­dant fail safe, fail oper­a­tional and cyber secure solu­tions.   

To opti­mize sys­tem per­for­mance, the embed­ded sys­tems engi­neer needs the abil­i­ty to mea­sure the behav­ior and inter­ac­tion of all soft­ware com­po­nents exe­cut­ing on a multi-core device.  The analy­sis of this real time behav­ior allows devel­op­ers to effi­cient­ly iden­ti­fy poten­tial per­for­mance improv­ing cor­rec­tive actions.  

The TASKING Multi Core Per­for­mance Tool’s ease of use and flex­i­bil­i­ty allow it to be used through­out the soft­ware develop­ment process.  Soft­ware archi­tects and sys­tem devel­op­ers can take advan­tage of its load analy­sis capa­bil­i­ty to define and imple­ment well-bal­anced multi-core solu­tions.  Sys­tem inte­gra­tors can use the tool to mea­sure and prove the load on each core is with­in OEM spec­i­fi­ca­tions and sys­tem val­i­da­tion engi­neers can con­tin­u­ous­ly mon­i­tor and under­stand sys­tem behav­ior dur­ing worst case load and stress test con­di­tions.

Avail­abil­i­ty

The TASKING Multi Core Per­for­mance Tool is avail­able imme­di­ate­ly.

An eval­u­a­tion ver­sion of the tool is avail­able on the Multi Core Per­for­mance Tool page. 

Two prod­uct release webi­na­rs are sched­uled in June, click here for reg­is­tra­tion .

ABOUT TASKING

TASKING is the embed­ded soft­ware divi­sion of Altium (ASX:ALU). TASKING develop­ment tools are used by auto­mo­tive man­u­fac­tur­ers and the world’s largest Tier 1 sup­pli­ers to devel­op embed­ded micro­con­troller-based pow­er­train, body con­trol, and Advanced Dri­ver-Assis­tance Sys­tems (ADAS) - relat­ed appli­ca­tions for both tra­di­tion­al and elec­tric vehi­cles. These cus­tomers and those from adja­cent indus­tries, rely on the TASKING develop­ment tools to cre­ate rich­er next -gen­er­a­tion appli­ca­tions while achiev­ing opti­mum reli­a­bil­i­ty, safe­ty, and per­for­mance.

ABOUT ALTIUM

Altium LLC (ASX:ALU), a glob­al soft­ware com­pa­ny head­quar­tered in San Diego, Calif., is accel­er­at­ing the pace of inno­va­tion through elec­tron­ics. From indi­vid­ual inven­tors to multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions, more PCB design­ers and engi­neers choose Altium soft­ware to design and real­ize elec­tron­ics-based prod­ucts. The grow­ing demand for smart and con­nect­ed prod­ucts is dri­ving advance­ments in elec­tron­ics tech­nol­o­gy. Design trends are demon­strat­ing the need for min­i­miz­ing power, reduc­ing pack­age size and ener­gy con­sump­tion, and pri­or­i­tiz­ing high-speed design. For over 30 years, Altium has been deliv­er­ing soft­ware that max­i­mizes the pro­duc­tiv­i­ty of PCB design­ers and elec­tri­cal engi­neers, from idea to board. Users are at the cen­ter of Altium’s R&D and busi­ness oper­a­tions. With its unique Busi­ness-to-User approach, Altium is focused on devel­op­ing soft­ware that is easy to use and imple­ment, with solu­tions that enable inno­va­tion and deliv­er indus­try-lead­ing user productivity.Products include Altium Design­er®, Altium Con­cord Pro™, Altium 365®, Altium NEXUS®, Cir­cuit­Mak­er®, Cir­cuit­Stu­dio®, Octopart®, and TASKING®. To learn more about Altium, visit www.altium.com.