TASKING enhances tools support for NXP automotive microcontrollers and processors

Sep­tem­ber 10, 2024

TASK­ING’s VX-toolset for Arm v7.1r1 sup­port­ed by NXP’s Real-Time Dri­vers (RTD) for S32K388 and extends sup­port for S32N55 to the iC7 fam­i­ly of debug­gers

Munich, Ger­many, 10 Sep­tem­ber 2024 – TASKING, recent­ly pro­mot­ed to NXP Gold Part­ner sta­tus, has enhanced its tools sup­port to opti­mize and accel­er­ate soft­ware develop­ment for NXP® Semi­con­duc­tors’ auto­mo­tive micro­con­trollers and proces­sors. TASKING intro­duces ver­sion v7.1r1 of the com­pil­er tool­chain VX-toolset for Arm for embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment. The new ver­sion of the com­pil­er tool­chain is now fully sup­port­ed and qual­i­fied to be used with NXP’s new and inno­v­a­tive Real-Time Dri­vers (RTD) for S32K388 zonal aggre­ga­tor micro­con­troller. Addi­tion­al­ly, the TASKING fam­i­ly of iC7 hard­ware debug­gers now sup­ports vir­tu­al and hard­ware develop­ment of NXP’s recent­ly announced S32N vehi­cle super-inte­gra­tion proces­sors.

VX-toolset for NXP’s S32K388 zonal aggre­ga­tor micro­con­troller Real-Time Dri­vers (RTD) use

The VX-toolset plat­form in com­bi­na­tion with NXP Real-Time Dri­vers enables soft­ware devel­op­ers to opti­mize soft­ware for the pop­u­lar Arm archi­tec­ture, which is used in many safe­ty-ori­ent­ed auto­mo­tive sys­tems such as airbags, body elec­tron­ics and auto­mo­tive sen­sor clus­ters. Togeth­er with the TASKING fam­i­ly of iC7 hard­ware debug­gers and winIDEA inte­grat­ed develop­ment envi­ron­ment (IDE), devel­op­ers get a fully inte­grat­ed solu­tion for suc­cess­ful embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment for both AUTOSAR and non-AUTOSAR appli­ca­tions in the auto­mo­tive sec­tor.

Sup­port for NXP’s S32N fam­i­ly of vehi­cle super-inte­gra­tion proces­sors

The TASKING fam­i­ly of iC7 hard­ware debug­gers also sup­ports the develop­ment of NXP’s S32N fam­i­ly of vehi­cle super-inte­gra­tion proces­sors from both a vir­tu­al and hard­ware per­spec­tive. Vir­tu­al develop­ment is sup­port­ed via the Syn­op­sys VDK, and the iC7 debug­gers sup­port the NXP S32N55 series of proces­sors for tra­di­tion­al ECU hard­ware develop­ment. In addi­tion, improve­ments have been made to the inte­gra­tion of the TASKING Debug­ger into NXP’s S32 Design Stu­dio.

“We are proud that we can now call our­selves an NXP Gold Part­ner,” said Christoph Her­zog, CTO at TASKING. “With our VX-toolset for Arm, we are once again demon­strat­ing our com­mit­ment to pro­vid­ing soft­ware devel­op­ers with the tools they need to devel­op safe and secure auto­mo­tive soft­ware.”

“NXP is com­mit­ted to enabling a vibrant, open ecosys­tem around the high-per­for­mance micro­con­trollers and proces­sors that we pro­vide for a range of auto­mo­tive appli­ca­tions,” adds David Vieira, Sr. Direc­tor Zonal Solu­tions at NXP.  “Our part­ner­ship with TASKING is a great exam­ple of that ecosys­tem in action, giv­ing cus­tomers the flex­i­bil­i­ty to choose the best develop­ment plat­form for their solu­tion.”

Avail­abil­i­ty

The VX-toolset for Arm v7.1r1 is avail­able now. It will be pre­sent­ed at the NXP Tech Days in Detroit, MI, 30/31 Octo­ber 2024. The TASKING debug­ger sup­port for the S32N fam­i­ly of proces­sors is also avail­able now.

More infor­ma­tion on the VX-toolset for Arm v7.1r1 is avail­able online.

Webi­nar 

For those inter­est­ed, TASKING will host a prod­uct release webi­nar on Sep­tem­ber 19 at 4:00pm (CEST), pre­sent­ing the TASKING VX-Toolset for Arm v7.1r1. For detailed reg­is­tra­tion infor­ma­tion, please visit www.tasking.com/events. 

About TASKING

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

TASK­ING’s 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 tool is designed for a cer­tain archi­tec­ture and meets the spe­cif­ic require­ments of your indus­try, includ­ing auto­mo­tive, indus­tri­al, telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and dat­a­com. The lat­est gen­er­a­tion of the Blue­box iC7 series debug­ger is inde­pen­dent of the under­ly­ing archi­tec­ture and thus pro­vide best in class debug­ging and trac­ing capa­bil­i­ties in cost effec­tive man­ner. 

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.