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Growing ADAS Market Will Require Efficient Software and MPU Expertise Transportation has a major effect on people and societies, and cars changed life around the world forever. We are now on the brink of another major transportation breakthrough, self-driving cars. While we are still years away from fully autonomous vehicles, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are becoming more common in the automotive industry. The ADAS market is headed for major growth, and smart software developers can grow with them Read Article
Why You Should Use the Best Static Analysis Tool For Developing Autonomous Vehicle Software Designers often focus on benchmarking their compiler, only to have their programs slowed down by safety considerations later. Using a compiler that has integrated safety features, especially static analysis tools, can get your program into ISO 26262 compliance quickly. Using a safety tool with great static analysis can save you time in debugging, keep you from cutting features, and allow you to get the most out of your compiler. Have you ever Read Article
Configuring TASKING Safety Checker for Third Party C Compilers TASKING Safety Checker can be used in various industries where IEC 61508 related regulations are in place, like ISO 26262 in automotive. It fully supports the ISO-C standard, but it needs a simple configuration to be used in context with compiler specific C extensions. This blog provides sources for such configurations. In addition to the TASKING C compilers, the new Safety Checker can be configured to work with embedded C compilers from other Read Article
Standalone release of TASKING Safety Checker available TASKING Safety Checker assists embedded software developers with safety-related analysis of application code and providing evidence for Freedom From Interference, for example for certification of automotive software applications conform the ISO 26262 functional safety standard or similar interpretations of IEC 61508 in other industries. The standalone version of TASKING Safety Checker can be used to check embedded code independent from the tool Read Article
ISO 26262 - Best ideas come in the Shower TASKING wants employees to be creative, you get your best ideas when you’re under the shower, so build a couple of showers at the TASKING office. This wonderful idea arose under the shower, so I quickly wiped myself dry and went to the office to tell my boss about it. Unfortunately he was not excited at all. Read how this relates to my experience when developing our Safety Checker, initially targeted for ISO 26262 related applications. Still Read Article
Freedom from Interference - How to beat the MPU Mixed criticality in embedded software development is the concept of allowing software at different levels of criticality to interact and coexist in the same Electronic Control Unit (ECU). Certification of such systems is rather complex, because you have to prove that software elements with a lower safety level cannot interfere with elements with a higher safety level. You have to ensure what ISO 26262 calls ‘Freedom from Interference’. Read how Read Article
Who is calling whom? The Making of Information Age: Enfield Telephone Exchange1 Safety Checker by TASKING is a Safety integrity level (SIL) aware static analyzer with the ability to check for interference in the memory space domain and the special function register domain which is helpful to prove "freedom from Interference" as described in the ISO 26262 functional safety standard. The success of a good static analysis stands or falls to whether the tool is able to Read Article
Corruption of Memory Content Safety standard ISO 26262 specifies that freedom from interference between software elements shall be ensured. The current safety mechanisms to address memory interferences have severe restrictions. Read on if you want to understand the weaknesses in today’s solutions to prevent corruption of memory content and illegal access to memory allocated to other software components. Freedom from Interference You are right if you consider taking enough Read Article
Accelerate in second gear with AURIX™ Through Altium’s long standing, close cooperation with Infineon Technologies the team at TASKING has always been able to deliver outstanding support for new microcontroller variants to the market early on. The #1 TriCore tools to unleash the Plus in Performance, Connectivity and Security of the Second Generation AURIX™ Through Altium’s long standing, close cooperation with Infineon Technologies the team at TASKING has always been able to deliver Read Article
Gremlins in Legacy Object Files Why you shouldn’t fear linking object files from different compiler versions ('cross linking') with the newest TriCore 6.1 compiler and two older versions. Are they out to get you? When the daughter of a friend of mine was still a little girl, she could not sleep at night because she was afraid of the monsters under her bed. Her parents could talk all they wanted, it did not help; she had nightmares about those monsters. In the end my friend came Read Article
Enjoying CERT C secure coding analysis with embedded compilers through Safety Checker The standalone version of TASKING Safety Checker can be used in various industries where IEC 61508 related regulations are in place, like ISO 26262 in automotive. In addition to its safety aware analysis it supports CERT C coding analysis independent from the tool chain that is in use. Altium always has been at the forefront of incorporating support for new standards in its embedded TASKING C compilers. It was one of the first to fully integrate Read Article
The Three Programming Essentials You Need to Know for AURIX™ Multi-Core TriCore™ With great architecture comes increased complexity, and if you're a developer about to embark on an AURIX™-based project then you’ll need to know these three programming essentials to get your development job done right the first time. In Spring 2012, Infineon introduced the fifth generation of TriCore™. This family line, called AURIX™, was the first to implement up to three 32-bit TriCore™ CPUs and aimed to meet the highest safety standards Read Article
Announcing TASKING VX-toolset for TriCore™ release v6.1r1 The new TASKING TriCore™ VX-toolset is built specifically to help meet the highest safety standards and increased performance required of today’s multi-core based applications. Its ACT (AURIX™ Configuration Tool) driven technology makes it not just another compiler, but a future-proof developer platform equipped for fast-paced development. Today, Altium announces its new TASKING VX-toolset for TriCore™ v6.1r1, bringing a wealth of improvements Read Article
Follow the Data In Order to Assure Freedom from Interference The functional safety standard for road vehicles, ISO 26262, does not prohibit software with different Safety Integration Level (SIL) to interact and coexist in the same Electronic Control Unit (ECU), for as long as software elements of a lower safety level cannot interfere with elements at a higher safety level. This can be accomplished using software partitioning. The software is split up into parts of different Safety Integration Levels. Next Read Article
Requirements and Implications of ASPICE Auto Software Developer Certification Software developer certification is necessary to guarantee quality software products. The ASPICE auto software developer certifications tell customers if a developer’s products work to specification, if the developer is able to provide support for its products, and how efficiently the developer operates. Read on to find out more! In college, a few friends and I got our first taste of embedded systems programming during our senior project. We made Read Article
Optimize Software Development for Cars with Standalone Debugging Tools Expensive to license software development toolsets can cause bottlenecks in your company’s software development process. Standalone debuggers will help distribute the workload for faster, less expensive, development. When I bought my last car, the salesman upsold me on the newer model with heated seats. Well, in the heat of the moment I had forgotten that I live in California. I ended up paying a lot more for a car with heated seats that I only Read Article
Technological Advances in LiDAR are Working to Bring Autonomous Vehicles into the Mainstream Market One of my favorite movies from the 2000s was Minority Report. As an engineer, my favorite genre is Science Fiction, and Tom Cruise was my favorite actor. I imagined myself riding in one of those sleek autonomous cars, watching Tom try to outrun his fate. Those cars must have been pretty far in the future because I didn’t see any giant LIDAR arrays on them. New advances in technology could turn Science Fiction into reality. LIDAR developers are Read Article