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News Release from: The MathWorks | Subject: Simulink with Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder.
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 August 2007
Model-based design supports Autosar
Volkswagen has demonstrated to the automotive industry how the Autosar standard can be put into practice and integrated into next-generation vehicle design and development.
Volkswagen has integrated a fully Autosar-compliant comfort and convenience electronic control unit (ECU) into an existing Volkswagen ECU network for the first time by automatically generating the compliant software from Simulink models with Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder Through the Automotive Open System Architecture (Autosar) partnership, automotive OEMs, suppliers and tool vendors are collaborating around a single standard
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Feb 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder automatically produced Autosar-compliant C code from the models, which eliminated the cost and complexity of manual code generation.
Volkswagen also used The MathWorks Autosar Demonstration Kit (ADK), which supports model-based design of Autosar software components with Matlab, Simulink and Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder.
"We are excited to demonstrate the integration of an Autosar-compliant ECU into an existing ECU network through our collaboration with The MathWorks and other Autosar partners", says Bernd Kunkel, the Project Manager at Volkswagen responsible for this initiative.
"We worked closely with The MathWorks to integrate model-based design, which accelerated the generation of code, eliminated many of the errors associated with hand-coding and helped us contribute to developing open standards".
"Volkswagen's success with Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder demonstrates the value of using MathWorks products to integrate model-based design and automatically generate Autosar components, which minimises disruption to existing development processes", says Andy Grace, Vice President of Engineering and Design Automation, The MathWorks.
"We have a strong commitment to the Autosar idea and MathWorks products themselves are built on an open-system architecture that provides automotive customers the power and flexibility they need to develop robust, scalable and easily maintained software".
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