ECU Interface Manager

The ECU Interface Manager from dSPACE helps simplify the workflow and accelerate ECU function development projects.

• Enables control engineers to insert bypass hooks intuitively and quickly, directly into the compiled ECU hex code, for incremental ECU function development
• No access to either source code or build environment of ECU software is required
• Integrates bypass services and service calls, also known as bypass hooks
• Supports internal bypassing (on-target prototyping), in which free RAM and flash memory areas in ECU are used to implement controller algorithms
• Allows external bypassing as well as external bypassing for algorithms developed on external rapid prototyping system
• Users can switch back and forth between these internal and external without having to modify controller model
• Analyzes ECU hex code and associated ECU description file (A2L file)
• Finds function calls, read/write accesses to ECU variables and conditional branches in ECU software
• Using a configuration file, ECU supplier can specify which information will actually be displayed in
• Detailed knowledge of ECU software not necessary
• Generates new HEX file and new A2L file containing  bypass hooks at the push of a button
• Currently available for ECUs with Infineon TriCore microcontrollers
• Additional microcontroller families are planned to be supported in near future