SystemDesk

For developing complex system architectures

• Early verification of automotive software architecture
• Support of graphical system modeling for easy handling of complex systems
• Separate and appropriate modeling of different system aspects
• Exchange and integration of software descriptions to improve OEM/supplier processes

Why Model-Based Development?
Automotive software is becoming more and more complex. This holds true for functionalities distributed over several electronic control units (ECUs) and for single ECUs. Better tool support is therefore needed on the system level and the architecture level as well. Model-based development of ECU software and the graphical representation of the components and their communication improves the overall understanding of even complex systems. Furthermore, the formalization of the components enable their distribution to different developers. The automotive software development process can also be improved by reusing application software components. This allows manufacturers and suppliers to utilize software modules that were already tested, thereby minimizing potential software hazards and cutting the development workload.

Key Benefits
SystemDesk is a software architecture tool supporting the development of distributed automotive electrics/electronics (E/E) systems and subsystems:

• Designing functional networks and software architectures
• Modeling systems according to the AUTOSAR standard
• Formalizing hardware topologies and network communication
• Integrating ECU code
• Generating an AUTOSAR Runtime Environment (RTE)
• Simulation of a single software component or an entire ECU network
• Providing process support, such as scripting, connection to version control systems, requirement management systems, and libraries for storing reusable objects

AUTOSAR Integration
SystemDesk supports the AUTOSAR standard. For example, software components can be described according to AUTOSAR, or existing components can be imported into SystemDesk for further processing. SystemDesk provides an RTE generator based on dSPACE’s years of experience in code generation and optimization with TargetLink.

Connection with dSPACE TargetLink
SystemDesk works hand in hand with TargetLink, dSPACE‘s production code generator, which can be used to generate production code for the software components designed in SystemDesk architecture models. For function design itself, well-established tools such as Simulink^®/Stateflow^® can be used.