TASKING’s SmartCode supports development of AI-based applications

Octo­ber 29, 2024

The new ver­sion of the develop­ment envi­ron­ment for Infi­neon’s AURIX TC4x fam­i­ly opti­mizes the use of the Par­al­lel Pro­cess­ing Unit.

Munich, Ger­many, 29 Octo­ber 2024 – TASKING presents the lat­est ver­sion of the develop­ment envi­ron­ment Smart­Code v10.3r1 for the Infi­neon Tri­Core™ AURIX™ TC4x fam­i­ly. The new release sim­pli­fies the develop­ment of AI-based appli­ca­tions in the auto­mo­tive sec­tor.

Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) is play­ing an increas­ing­ly impor­tant role in the auto­mo­tive sec­tor and is expect­ed to enable safe and reli­able autonomous dri­ving. These appli­ca­tions rely on pow­er­ful micro­con­trollers, such as Infi­neon’s AURIX TC4x fam­i­ly, to pro­vide the advanced fea­tures nec­es­sary to sup­port these com­pu­ta­tion­al­ly com­plex algo­rithms. Devel­op­ers require ver­sa­tile and easy-to-use develop­ment envi­ron­ments to aid in their develop­ment. TASKING’s lat­est release of the Smart­Code toolset includes the PPU (Par­al­lel Pro­cess­ing Unit) run­time envi­ron­ment library, which pro­vides a bidi­rec­tion­al data exchange mech­a­nism between the Tri­Core and PPU for offload­ing the Tri­Core and/or allow­ing the Tri­Core to take advan­tage of the PPU’s supe­ri­or com­pute power for matrix and vec­tor inten­sive cal­cu­la­tions.

The pow­er­ful Blue­Box debug­gers from TASKING sup­port develop­ment in both the vir­tu­al and ECU envi­ron­ment, and allow sys­tem devel­op­ers debug access to all cores includ­ing the PPU.  The com­plete set of hard­ware and soft­ware tools from TASKING pro­vides the user with all the nec­es­sary develop­ment tools need­ed for imple­ment­ing new AI-based appli­ca­tions.

Smart­Code is based on the Eclipse IDE and can be used with both Win­dows and Linux hosts. A Safe­ty & Secu­ri­ty Man­u­al for Tri­Core and the PPU is includ­ed for tool qual­i­fi­ca­tion. The includ­ed com­pil­ers for Tri­Core and PPU both com­ply with the stan­dards for func­tion­al safe­ty (ISO26262) and cyber­se­cu­ri­ty (ISO21434) and have been cer­ti­fied accord­ing­ly by TÜV.

“Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence is the future of the soft­ware-defined vehi­cle”, said Christoph Her­zog, CTO of TASKING. “We are proud that with our new Smart­Code we can ease the work of engi­neers devel­op­ing for the Infi­neon AURIX micro­con­trollers.”

“With the TC4x fam­i­ly, we are the first to intro­duce the sup­port of ASIL D cer­ti­fi­able Save Embed­ded AI @ Edge appli­ca­tions for the auto­mo­tive mar­ket,” said Thomas Schneid, Senior Direc­tor for Soft­ware and Ecosys­tem Man­age­ment at Infi­neon Tech­nolo­gies. “With TASK­ING’s enhanced sup­port of the PPU, our joint cus­tomers will ben­e­fit from eas­i­er and faster develop­ment of auto­mo­tive AI appli­ca­tions.”

Avail­abil­i­ty

Smart­Code v10.3r1 for the Infi­neon Tri­Core™ AURIX™ TC4x fam­i­ly is avail­able now. More infor­ma­tion is avail­able online at https://www.tasking.com/products/smartcode-aurix-tc4x-whats-new.

Webi­nar

For those inter­est­ed, TASKING will host a prod­uct release webi­nar on Novem­ber 7 at 4:00pm (CET), pre­sent­ing Smart­Code v10.3r1. 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 roc­og­nized 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.