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Qualifying a C Library - Dealing with the conflicting worldviews of the ISO 26262 and ISO C standards Functional safety and cybersecurity standards treat the qualification of tools and libraries as independent subjects. This independence is inconsistent with the perspective of the ISO C standard which serves as the foundation for implementing compiler toolsets and their libraries. This fundamental difference poses difficulties when it comes to qualifying a compiler and the libraries associated with it. Introduction To achieve conformance with the Read Article

Getting Started with winIDEA IDE Embark on a journey with winIDEA, the cornerstone of the TASKING integrated software development environment. This powerful tool, essential for embedded development engineers, offers invaluable insights and is readily available on both Windows and Linux platforms. Creating a workspace the same on both platforms, and it’s a breeze. Our comprehensive Getting started Tutorials, featuring graphical presentations and videos, guide you through every Watch Video

Enhancing Visual Studio Code Development with TASKING winIDEA Debug Extension In recent years, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has emerged as one of the most popular integrated development environments (IDEs). However, for developers working on embedded systems or requiring advanced debugging capabilities, the transition to VS Code may have posed some challenges. Enter the TASKING winIDEA Debug Extension, a powerful tool that smoothly integrates the best features of winIDEA and BlueBox tools with the familiar VS Code Watch Video

Simplify development with TASKING tools - SmartCode, winIDEA and iC7mini BlueBox In the fast-paced landscape of safety application development, developers require fast and user-friendly development environments and high-performance hardware debuggers. Our video showcases the integration of SmartCode, winIDEA, and the iC7mini BlueBox, when developing an Infineon TC4x safety application. Here is the step-by-step guide: Start TASKING SmartCode Toolset to easily import projects Compile your application and configure SmartCode to Watch Video

"Interfacing with Classic AUTOSAR at arxml and code level" AUTOSAR is celebrating 20 Years of Success! We are thrilled to be featured in the 20th Anniversary Brochure with the success story of Rudolf Grave! 🚀 We invite you to explore the brochure and share in the celebration of this milestone achievement. To view the brochure, please click here. You will find Rudi's article on page 176. 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

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

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

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