Braunschweig, Germany – 3rd March 2011. Symtavision, a leading global solutions provider for real-time systems design and verification, has launched SymTA/S 2.4, a major new version of its highly successful tools suite for system-level timing design and timing verification. SymTA/S 2.4 incorporates a wealth of new and improved features targeted at the automotive electronics, aerospace, automation and transportation markets including enhanced support for multi-core processors and AUTOSAR.
The SymTA/S tools suite helps engineers conquer the design challenges of complex, safety- and performance-critical embedded real-time systems including controllers, processors, bus/networks and complete integrated systems, by facilitating their rapid and cost-effective design, optimization and timing verification, from early-phase estimation though to final certification.
New features in SymTA/S 2.4 include support for importing and optimizing AUTOSAR electronic control unit (ECU) and network configurations, multi-core ECU performance analysis and partitioning, end-to-end worst-case and statistical timing analysis, multi-dimensional timing dependency and data consistency analysis, enhanced PYTHON scripting and remote control tool automation.
SymTA/S 2.4 significantly improves automotive process integration with the inclusion of a new AUTOSAR XML import interface enabling AUTOSAR ECU and network configuration import and optimization. With SymTA/S 2.4 engineers can easily extract the architecture and related parameterization relevant for system-level timing analysis. It also facilitates tighter coupling with third-party AUTOSAR architecture design and ECU configuration tools equipped with XML export support.
With the enhanced multi-core processor performance analysis and partitioning support in SymTA/S 2.4, engineers are able to ensure their software designs have a balanced load on all cores, that all timing deadlines are met and that the software architecture is optimized for further multi-core development.
By analyzing delays occurring between sensors and actuators as worst-case and statistical typical-case values, the new end-to-end worst-case and distribution timing analysis capabilities in SymTA/S 2.4 enable systems to be easily optimized for both hard real-time and best-effort communication.
The multi-dimensional timing analysis focuses on scheduling offsets. Engineers can optimize a system by varying task and communication scheduling offsets and analyzing the impact on real-time performance. The data consistency analysis focuses on memory-based communication in pre-emptive real-time systems, enabling engineers to improve communication layouts by verifying if a variable can change in-between multiple reads.
The inclusion of a new remote control feature in SymTA/S 2.4 using a web service based on SOAP and including a dedicated API for controlling SymTA/S, improves tool automation and tool-chain integration. The scripting capability has also been significantly improved with the integration of the Python programming language enriched with a dedicated API for controlling SymTA/S.
“SymTA/S is fast becoming the de facto industry standard, system-level scheduling analysis and optimization tools suite for complex, safety- and performance-critical embedded real-time systems,” said Dr Marek Jersak, CEO of Symtavision. “The launch of SymTA/S 2.4 continues to extend both its market-leading position and system-level credentials with the introduction of significant process integration enhancements and new timing analyses to improve the design of complex, safety- and performance-critical embedded real-time systems.”
About Symtavision
Symtavision® is a leader in embedded design software tools and services. The company enables the rapid and cost-effective development, optimization and timing verification of complex, safety- and performance-critical embedded real-time systems – from early-phase estimation to final verification.
Symtavision’s innovative scheduling analysis tool suite for system-level timing design and timing verification, SymTA/S, helps engineers conquer design challenges for controllers, processors, bus/networks and complete integrated systems. It is used extensively in automotive electronics with support provided for industry standards including AUTOSAR, CAN, FlexRay and OSEK, and in the avionics industry with support provided for ARINC 653 partitioned operating systems and ARINC 664 switched Ethernet, and time-triggered communication. SymTA/S also provides support for a variety of other industry sectors including the automation, multimedia, telecommunications and transportation markets. Symtavision’s associated TraceAnalyzer is a powerful solution for visualizing and analyzing timing data from both measurements and simulations. TraceAnalyzer seamlessly integrates with SymTA/S.
Symtavision is headquartered in Braunschweig (Germany) with a subsidiary office in Munich (Germany) and is supported by a global network of distributors. Symtavision is also a founder member of the Real-Time Experts Alliance which was formed in 2008 to provide complete solutions for the key real-time systems issue of complex and multi-faceted timing problems. For more information visit: http://www.symtavision.com.
