TA Tool Suite -
Accessing the Full Power of AUTOSAR ECUs
TA Tool Suite is a user-friendly software for the design, simulation and verification of embedded multi-core real-time systems. It covers the non-functional requirement “timing” across the complete development cycle as a unified solution. The tool enables a deep analysis of the timing behavior. Furthermore, TA Tool Suite simplifies the distribution of application software on different cores in multi-core ECUs. This increases the efficiency and reactivity of embedded real-time systems.
With TA Tool Suite, project managers, software architects, developers and integrators make full use of the ECU's computation resources.
New Timing Bundles
The Vector-iSYSTEM Timing Bundle contains a step by step guideline to integrate scheduling tracing across the whole tool chain. From the configuration of the MICROSAR.OS within the DaVinci Configurator Pro via iSYSTEM WinIDEA to the analysis of the result in Vector's TA Tool Suite. Additionally, it delivers the necessary scripts to automatize the entire process.
Now, even more Timing Bundles are available.
TA Tool Suite Trial Version
With a free trial version you can learn all the advantages of TA Tool Suite for your specific use case. You will also benefit from a detailed instruction by our experts.
Advantages
- Supports migration from single-core software architectures to multi-core or many-core platforms
- Increases system understanding by graphical visualization of software dependencies
- Evaluates system utilization and enables hardware dimensioning forecasts
- Simulates different alternatives of ECU system designs at early development stages
- Shows alternatives for application software integration with regard to real-time and performance properties
- Visualizes and analyzes target traces for verifying timing properties
- Imports AUTOSAR and AMALTHEA system descriptions and hardware traces
Highlights of Version 21.2
- New function for systematic and timing aware runnable integration into an existing ECU runtime architecture
- Supports trace import of MDF files according to ASAM ARTI as well as MDF files generated with Vector Hardware VX1000
- Advanced extension for importing recorded traces in AUTOSAR Adaptive systems with LTTng or perf
- Easy definition and evaluation of timing events and event-chains based on the value of exchanged data
- New interface to requirement management tools via Vector Utilities (see vTestStudio Utilities)
Options for
TA Tool Suite
Dedicated Software Products for Every Step of the Project Lifecycle
The modular TA Tool Suite provides a dedicated software product for each step of the software project lifecycle. This includes specification of timing requirements, analysis and optimization of software architecture design as well as verification of the target system behavior.
The base module includes a project explorer and a browser for timing model elements. It enables data import/export and specifications of timing requirements.
The following options extend the base module of TA Tool Suite:
TA.Design
Definition of timing requirements of the application software for complex and highly integrated multi-functional software systems by interactive dynamic visualization.
TA.Simulation
Model-based simulation of ECU timing behavior and sophisticated graphical and table based evaluations of timing metrics for analyzing system behavior in different levels of detail.
TA.Inspection
Verification of the timing behavior of application software and of the operating system. This enables third-party trace measurements that have already been recorded to be analyzed in terms of response times, utilization, and other metrics.
Special Functions
Several Enhancements Support Individual Project Conditions.
Import/Export Interfaces
TA Tool Suite provides interfaces to the common exchange formats. The options TA.Design and TA.Simulation use the system descriptions AUTOSAR and AMALTHEA as data sources. TA.Inspection bases its analysis on trace log measurements from various debugger and profiling providers.
| Information Resource | File Format |
| System description | AUTOSAR ≥V4.0.3, ASAM MDX, AMALTHEA, CSV |
| Trace log measurements | iSYSTEM, Lauterbach, PLS, BTF ≥V1.0, OT1 ≥V0.2 |
Models for Operating Systems
Models for operating systems improve the accuracy of the option TA.Simulation by replicating the dynamic scheduler behavior of the corresponding operating system implementations.
Currently supported are MICROSAR.OS, Tresos AutoCore and Tresos Safety OS.
Workflow Editor
The Workflow Editor is a graphical solution for the description of automated processes within TA Tool Suite and leads to considerable time saving. For example, it summarizes the information from various system descriptions. This allows previously unused data sources to be accessed easily and conveniently. Routine tasks such as creating timing models, starting simulations, trace verifications and creating reports can thus be easily defined and executed.
A direct interface to DaVinci Configurator Pro is also available.
Recent Case Studies
Efficient Runtime Measurement for ECUs With the Hardware VX1000 and TA Tool Suite
With increasing project maturity and the integration of further software functions, the CPU load, which is still sufficient in the beginning, increases sharply. The result can be runtime problems, requiring a significant amount of time and money to solve.
The solution: The TA Tool Suite software in combination with the VX1000 measurement and calibration hardware analyzes the internal runtime and external bus behavior of an ECU time-synchronously. The VX1000 hardware supports both emulation devices with the broadband data trace interface as well as the production devices of various microcontroller manufacturers via the debug interface.
Automatic Timing Simulation and Execution Time Measurement with AUTOSAR
The timing analysis and scheduling simulation of AUTOSAR ECU software is often associated with high modeling effort.
The solution: The TA Workflow is an automation environment within the TA Tool Suite with interfaces to DaVinci Configurator Pro and the winIDEA Profiler from iSYSTEM.
Lauterbach and Vector Introduce Solution for Timing Analysis of AUTOSAR Systems
Lauterbach, the leading supplier of debug tools and Vector collaborate to provide accurate timing data for embedded AUTOSAR systems. The solution is based on the AUTOSAR Classic basic software MICROSAR and runs on TriCore™ AURIX™ processors from Infineon. Option TA.Inspection as part of TA Tool Suite from Vector is used to import TRACE32 trace measurements to analyze them in terms of response times, utilization, and other metrics.
Webinar Recordings
Efficient Run-Time Analysis of AUTOSAR Classic Projects with OS and RTE Tracing
This webinar recording shows how the dynamic behavior of the software architecture can be measured at run-time with no or only minimum overhead and evaluated off the target ECU. Many multi-core features and techniques to utilize ECUs result in intervening into the scheduling behavior. With ongoing ECU project development, multiple software vendors as well as a considerable amount of configuration parameters to play with, the effects of those after integration at run-time become hardly foreseeable. An optimal solution is to trace the OS and RTE behavior with the trace debugger from iSYSTEM and evaluate the trace measurement afterwards offline with TA Tool Suite from Vector.
OS and RTE Tracing for MICROSAR with Lauterbach
Lauterbach and Vector have developed a joint solution that allows to record trace information about the timing behavior of tasks, interrupts and runnables for MICROSAR and to analyze it with TA.Inspection. This video shows the different steps needed to work efficiently with this solution.
More Webinar Recordings
Solving Runtime Issues of AUTOSAR Classic ECU Projects
Simulating the Runtime Behavior of AUTOSAR Classic ECUs throughout the Complete Development
Setting up a Timing Tool Chain for AUTOSAR Classic with Vector's Vx1000 and TA Tool Suite
Considering CAN and COM Stack for Simulating the Scheduling Behavior of AUTOSAR ECUs
Chasing and Avoiding Timing and Performance Issues in AUTOSAR Adaptive Systems
For upcoming webinars and even more recordings, please visit our webinar web page.
Product Descriptions
| Component | Recommended | Minimum |
| Processor | Quad-Core | Dual-Core |
| Memory (RAM)1 | 8 GB, 16 GB for large projects | 4 GB |
| Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 | 1600 x 900 |
| Operating System | Windows 10 (64 Bit) | Windows 7 (64 Bit) |
| Disc | SSD | HDD |
1 For improved RAM configuration of your system please visit the Vector KnowledgeBase.
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