winIDEA and SDK support for virtual ECUs

Vir­tu­al ECUs are advanced sim­u­la­tors that allow you to start early prod­uct pro­to­typ­ing and soft­ware develop­ment, typ­i­cal­ly before a real ECU hard­ware or even the SoC is avail­able.

winIDEA con­nects to the vir­tu­al ECU through one of the sup­port­ed debug pro­to­cols such as MCD, GDB, GDI, etc. It sup­ports the same fea­ture set as the Blue­Box Hard­ware Debug­gers. Thus, all advanced debug, test, and trace func­tion­al­i­ty and the IDE user expe­ri­ence remain avail­able as you shift from real to vir­tu­al ECU and back.

Like­wise, winIDEA SDK pro­vides the same inter­faces - a Con­tin­u­ous Inte­gra­tion automa­tion script can be used with­out change on both the real and vir­tu­al ECU.