OEM&Lieferant Ausgabe 2/2018 / OEM&Supplier Edition 2/2018

130 Automotive Embedded Software Of course, ASCET is not new. The first six generations of the ETAS tool have proven themselves in software development for over 450 million ECUs. Nevertheless, ETAS has thoroughly revised the tool for the seventh generation, ASCET-DEVELOPER, making it fit for the future. The goals were challenging: higher productivity, even better safeguards against programming errors, full compliance with industrial standards, and seamless em- bedding into the customers’ development en- vironments. This was achieved through inte- gration into the open development platform Eclipse, compliance with standards such as MISRA-C:2012, IEC 61508, and ISO 26262, new ideas for even greater safety and security, and a significantly improved user guidance (Figure 1). On-the-fly check gives engineers certainty But how is it possible for companies to both securely and cost-effectively program em- bedded software which controls safety-rel- evant functions in systems that are growing in complexity all the time? The answers to this question are the Embedded Software Devel- A Big Step Forward ETAS ASCET-DEVELOPER – the easy way to safer embedded software By Abhik Dey, Product Manager ASCET, ETAS GmbH. Dr. Darren Buttle, Senior Manager RTA-Consulting, ETAS GmbH. A click is all it takes to generate software code for the highest demands using ASCET. That has long been the case. But the new ASCET-DEVELOPER can do even more. It raises model-based development of embedded systems to a new level of safety, security, and productivity. Graphics: © ETAS GmbH