The ETAS Group is a German company which designs tools for the development of

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s for the

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and other sectors of the embedded industry. ETAS is 100-percent subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH.

Business

ETAS GmbH, founded in 1994, is a one hundred percent

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Robert Bosch GmbH Robert Bosch GmbH (; ), commonly known as Bosch and stylized as BOSCH, is a German multinational engineering and technology company headquartered in Gerlingen, Germany. The company was founded by Robert Bosch in Stuttgart in 1886. Bosc ...

with international subsidiaries and sales offices in

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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. ETAS GmbH does not publish its own annual report. The total number of associates amounted to 1,500 as of June 2021. In 2003, the ETAS Group was formed by the merger of the Bosch

ETAS GmbH (the company name being the acronym of Engineering Tools, Application and Services), LiveDevices Ltd.,

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, and Vetronix Corporation,

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. The company's

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is located in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the Sw ...

. ETAS provides automakers, their

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, engineering service providers, and customers from other sectors of the embedded industry with tools for

s, e.g. development tools (in the form of both

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and hardware) for ECUs used in

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and

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s, engineering services, consulting, training, and support. With the objective of achieving shorter development cycles, increased

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, and improved fault analysis, tools of this kind have been deployed in the auto industry since the early nineties. The ETAS subsidiary ESCRYPT (acquired in Aug-2012) provides security solutions related to embedded systems.

Major product lines

ASCET

Open product family for the model-based development of embedded automotive software: * Model-based

software design Software design is the process by which an agent creates a specification of a software artifact intended to accomplish goals, using a set of primitive components and subject to constraints. Software design may refer to either "all the activi ...

for control functions and control algorithms * Office, lab, or vehicle-based

simulation A simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time. Simulations require the use of Conceptual model, models; the model represents the key characteristics or behaviors of the selected system or proc ...

and

rapid prototyping Rapid prototyping is a group of techniques used to quickly fabricate a scale model of a physical part or assembly using three-dimensional computer aided design (CAD) data. Construction of the part or assembly is usually done using 3D printing ...

Electronic Control Unit An electronic control unit (ECU), also known as an electronic control module (ECM), is an embedded system in automotive electronics that controls one or more of the electrical systems or subsystems in a car or other motor vehicle. Modern vehic ...

(ECU) functions * Automatic code generation for ECUs in production quality (more than 65 million produced since 1997) * Compatible with standards such as ASAM (including MSR (Manufacturer and Suppliers Relationship Group),About ASAM Organization
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OSEK OSEK (''Offene Systeme und deren Schnittstellen für die Elektronik in Kraftfahrzeugen''; English: "''Open Systems and their Interfaces for the Electronics in Motor Vehicles''") is a standards body that has produced specifications for an embedded o ...

, AUTOSAR, MISRA,

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. T ...

UML The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose, developmental modeling language in the field of software engineering that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system. The creation of UML was originally m ...

and

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(certified for

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systems) * Compatible with tools such as

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Simulink Simulink is a MATLAB-based graphical programming environment for modeling, simulating and analyzing multidomain dynamical systems. Its primary interface is a graphical block diagramming tool and a customizable set of block libraries. It offers t ...

. Typical deployment in the development of electronic control units for internal

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, hybrid propulsion systems, transmission control units,

chassis A chassis (, ; plural ''chassis'' from French châssis ) is the load-bearing framework of an artificial object, which structurally supports the object in its construction and function. An example of a chassis is a vehicle frame, the underpar ...

management systems ( ABS, ESC), as well as convenience electronics

INCA

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is a measuring and calibration environment for ECUs: *

Measuring Measurement is the quantification of attributes of an object or event, which can be used to compare with other objects or events. In other words, measurement is a process of determining how large or small a physical quantity is as compared ...

, displaying, recording and evaluation of ECU data * Adjustment and administration of data records * Based on open automotive standards * Suitable for deployment in the lab, in the vehicle and on the test bench According to corporate claims, ETAS is the market leader for measurement and calibration tools.

INTECRIO

Product family for the virtual prototyping and

of ECU functions: * Integration of models created in ASCET and MATLAB/Simulink, as well as C-Code *

Verification and validation Verification and validation (also abbreviated as V&V) are independent procedures that are used together for checking that a product, service, or system meets requirements and specifications and that it fulfills its intended purpose. These are ...

of ECU functions, also in real-time conditions * Suited to deployment in office, lab and vehicle

LABCAR

Product family for the creation of a Hardware-In-The-Loop (HiL) setup. LABCAR is mainly a development application for the hardware interface connection to the ECU: Some execution and

automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...

of ECU tests, based on models created in ASCET and MATLAB/Simulink, is possible to integrate into LABCAR. LABCAR is inseparably connected to Experiment Environment (EE), which usually is the control panel of the HiL currently running.

RTA-OSEK

Real-time operating system A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system (OS) for real-time applications that processes data and events that have critically defined time constraints. An RTOS is distinct from a time-sharing operating system, such as Unix, which m ...

s (RTOS) for ECU microcontrollers: * Conformant with standards such as

, AUTOSAR, MISRA * High performance for OSEK operating systems * Installed base in the hundreds of millions

Hardware

Various hardware products serving specialized purposes: * Connecting ECU processors (e.g., ETK) * Measurement data acquisition *

Real-time simulation Real-time simulation refers to a computer model of a physical system that can execute at the same rate as actual "wall clock" time. In other words, the computer model runs at the same rate as the actual physical system. For example, if a tank tak ...

of ECU functions or of physical ECU environments * Applications for diagnostics and testing for vehicle manufacturers and service shops (e.g., diagnostic scanner for reading a vehicle's fault memory).

References

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