The CANdela Approach
The CANdela approach is a proven method that has already been applied successfully in a number of real vehicle projects. It offers enormous time and cost savings and at the same time improves product quality.
The Approach
- A solution for meeting the diagnostic challenges faced by the growing numbers of ECUs in more and more vehicle platforms
- A process-oriented approach known as "Frontloading", where the primary focus is on creating a high quality specification at the start of the development process
- A precise and formal diagnostic specification
- A unique diagnostic description that prevents misinterpretations
- Automated code generation of ECU software
- Direct data support for diagnostic testers
- Open interfaces and data exchange to simplify integration in existing tool environments.
Compilation of Diagnostic Requirements
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The CANdela approach formalizes requirements management and so closes the gap between product specification and requirements specification via so-called "diagnostic templates" for individual automotive OEMs.
Usage of the Single Source Principle

Tool-supported centralized management of diagnostic requirements in an XML database (single-source principle) guarantees consistency of diagnostic description data. This database is used to generate the specification and ECU code as well as parameterize diagnostic test systems.