Simulink products support Infineon’s Aurix TC4x automotive microcontrollers
Two companies have collaborated to introduce hardware support for automotive microcontrollers. MathWorks and Infineon Technologies have announced a hardware support package for the MathWorks Simulink products for Infineon’s Aurix TC4x family of automotive microcontrollers.
Automotive engineers designing advanced electric vehicles, sensor fusion, and radar signal processing functions can use the hardware support package, even before silicon is available. It is also possible to validate use cases, rapidly and automatically generate the embedded software and test algorithms.
“Support for Aurix TC4x microcontrollers from the MathWorks capabilities for model-based design enables engineers to get an earlier start on pre-silicon software development and automate code generation to accelerate that development,” said Marco Cassol, director of microcontroller product Mmarketing for ADAS, chassis and EE architecture applications at Infineon Technologies. He believed the time-to-market benefits could significantly impact customers’ success.
The close collaboration with Infineon will enable mutual customers to accelerate the pace of development of electric vehicle systems, said Jim Tung, MathWorks Fellow. “Engineers can tackle complex systems while managing risk, with an improved understanding of system-level behaviour, continuous verification and a digital thread to requirements.
The MathWorks and Infineon partnership brings capabilities that simplify the development of increasingly complex automotive systems. Model-based design with Matlab and Simulink can accelerate embedded-system development and verification by 30 to 40 per cent over traditional approaches, said Mathworks.
MathWorks develops mathematical computing software. MatLab is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualisation and numeric computation. Simulink is a block diagram environment for simulation and model-based design of multi-domain and embedded engineering systems.
MatLab and Simulink are used as teaching and research tools in universities and learning institutions.
Mathworks was founded in 1984 with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.
