ASHLING'S POWERTRAIN DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

Ashling supplies a range of tools for development, debug, integration, calibration, Verification & Validation, testing and Software Quality Assurance for Powertrain Controller developers.

Ashling's unified environment for powertrain development provides:

• Single hardware debug platform with reconfigurable support for:
• NEXUS-standard debug interface
• OCDS debug interface
• Debug and Trace tools for Freescale MPC5554 and MPC56x powertrain microprocessors
• Debug and Trace tools for Infineon TC1775 and TC1796 powertrain microprocessors
• Dedicated support for Powertrain Controller development
• Real-Time Embedded Software Quality Assurance Environment with:
• Static Analysis
• Coding standards conformance checking (MISRA C)
• Dynamic Analysis
• Test Coverage Measurement
• Automatic Test Harness Generator
• Regression Testing
• V&V Documentation

Ashling development tools are in use worldwide, on mission-critical powertrain applications.

NEXUS Development Support
The NEXUS global embedded debug standard, implemented on Ashling's NEXUS debug tools for MPC5554 and MPC565, provides a more compact, more flexible, more reliable debug connection to the unit-under-test, with a single industry-standard debug and trace connector; ability to monitor execution on-the-fly, with no debugging time-penalty; ability to measure code and data execution on-the-fly; opportunity to use a single, standard Debug Connector for debugging, validation, calibration and Flash-download.

As a leading member of the NEXUS Forum, Ashling is actively involved in further development of the NEXUS standard, and of tools for NEXUS-based debug, trace and calibration.

Advanced Powertrain Development support:

• Ashling PathFinder Source Debuggers for MPC5500 and MPC56x, and the TriCore and ARM™ architectures, include powerful new Software Quality Assurance functions: Timing Performance Analysis, Code Coverage and Call-Return Trace [322KB]
• Emulator/debugger Setup and configuration options for Run-Through-Reset/Run-Through-Ignition debugging and trace, to observe the full sequence of processor events while the powertrain control module-under-test is started from cold (battery/ignition is turned on).
• Calibration-tool interface: Shared use of NEXUS or OCDS debug port on unit-under-test for Debug and Calibration
• Testbed Software Quality Assurance environment with MISRA-C conformance checking
• Full Debug and Trace support for TC1796 to maximum rated clock frequency (160MHz)

(last updated: 2:00pm PST Feb 16 2005)