TASKING expands strategic Infineon partnership with multi-core development environment for next generation AURIX™ automotive microcontrollers

March 3, 2020

Expand­ing capa­bil­i­ties from estab­lished embed­ded soft­ware tools, to include micro­con­troller per­for­mance opti­miza­tion for auto­mo­tive safe­ty-crit­i­cal appli­ca­tions

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Flo­ri­an Süß­mair 
TASKING 
florian.suessmair@tasking.com

Masha Petro­va 
Altium, LLC 
pr@altium.com

Amers­foort, Nether­lands – March 3, 2020 - TASKING, the embed­ded soft­ware divi­sion of Altium (ASX:ALU), today announced its new multi-core develop­ment envi­ron­ment for third-gen­er­a­tion AURIX™ micro­con­trollers from Infi­neon. This capa­bil­i­ty will allow TASKING and Infi­neon auto­mo­tive cus­tomers to opti­mize per­for­mance for multi-core archi­tec­ture for safe­ty-crit­i­cal appli­ca­tions.

“Infi­neon and TASKING have a long­stand­ing rela­tion­ship in expan­sion of soft­ware develop­ment tools for TriCore™/AURIX™,” said Ralf Ködel, Direc­tor Prod­uct Mar­ket­ing Micro­con­troller at Infi­neon, “With this new envi­ron­ment, TASKING pro­vides an inno­v­a­tive one-stop shop solu­tion for our cus­tomers.”

This upcom­ing AURIX™ fam­i­ly of micro­con­trollers will be pre­pared for data-hun­gry auto­mo­tive appli­ca­tions such as future gate­ways, domain and zone con­trollers, engine man­age­ment, elec­tro-mobil­i­ty, and advanced dri­ver assis­tance sys­tems. At the same time these micro­con­trollers will deliv­er the safe­ty fea­tures, through­put, and power-effi­cient per­for­mance nec­es­sary to meet increas­ing AI com­pu­ta­tion­al require­ments.

The new TASKING develop­ment envi­ron­ment is being devel­oped accord­ing to Auto­mo­tive SPICE® Level 2 stan­dards, with plans for TÜV cer­ti­fi­ca­tion accord­ing to ISO 26262 up to ASIL D. This develop­ment envi­ron­ment pro­vides com­pil­er sup­port for the new Par­al­lel Pro­cess­ing Unit (PPU) from Syn­op­sys, one of the main enhance­ments in the next gen­er­a­tion AURIX™ fam­i­ly of micro­con­trollers, in addi­tion to all instruc­tion set archi­tec­tures used in the next gen­er­a­tion AURIX™ TC v1.8.

“These new capa­bil­i­ties from TASKING, empow­er our auto­mo­tive cus­tomers to make safer tra­di­tion­al and autonomous vehi­cles, by pro­vid­ing them with a more expan­sive set of soft­ware develop­ment tools,” said Franz Maidl, Direc­tor Glob­al TASKING Busi­ness. “This expan­sion also rein­forces our rela­tion­ship with Infi­neon as a part­ner of choice for TriCore™/AURIX™.”

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.