Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH Selects I-Logix for model-based development

Andover, MA - I-Logix announced October 15 that Conti Temic Product Line Body Electronics will utilize the Statemate Magnum and Rhapsody in MicroC integrated tool chain to standardize model-based development for Electronic Control Units (ECUs).

By Control Engineering Staff October 17, 2002

Andover, MA – I-Logix announced October 15 that Conti Temic Product Line Body Electronics will utilize the Statemate Magnum and Rhapsody in MicroC integrated tool chain to standardize model-based development for Electronic Control Units (ECUs).

It selected the integrated tool chain to graphically specify designs, improve communication within its development team and with customers, reduce time to market through component re-use, and reduce costs by validating systems and software designs up front prior to implementation.

Engineers use Statemate Magnum to create formal requirements specifications. Models are then tested in a virtual prototyping environment, ensuring that they are error free. System behavior is validated as an integral part of the design process, before anything is built.

Engineers then automatically generate target code directly from Rhapsody in MicroC. In addition, they are able to capture and re-use features or functions throughout the development process with the Statemate Magnum Library feature, and automatically generate documentation from the completed specification model.

”In addition to facilitating communication, Conti Temic Body Electronics is able to quickly make changes and ensure their designs are solid when issues arise in ECU integration, functionality is changed late in the game, cost reductions are mandated or variant derivation has to be incorporated and validated within the product,” said Andreas Nagl, software engineering, Conti Temic Product Line Body Electronics.

”Due to the complexity of our products, the synchronization effort for requirements, analysis / design models, code and test cases increased exponentially with conventional static CASE tools. Statemate Magnum and Rhapsody in MicroC tool chain, unlike static CASE tools, allows us to ‘feel’ the systems behavior, make changes on the fly, validate our design, generate code and conduct tests much more quickly. The product flexibility allows us to reuse existing functionalities written in C – so we follow a smooth, evolutionary path to model-based development without the risks and overhead associated with a revolutionary paradigm / tool shift.”

Control Engineering Daily News DeskGary A. Mintchell, senior editor gmintchell@reedbusiness.com