ETAS GmbH 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% owned by Robert Bosch GmbH.

Name

The company's name is an acronym of ''Empowering Tomorrow's Automotive Software''.

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 (styled BOSCH), is a German multinational engineering and technology company headquartered in Gerlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The company was founded by Robert Bosch in Stuttgart in 188 ...

that has 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 2,300 as of October 2023. In 2003, the ETAS Group was formed by the merger of the Bosch

ETAS GmbH; LiveDevices Ltd.,

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; and Vetronix Corporation,

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. The company's

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is located in

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. ETAS provides automakers, their

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, engineering service providers, and other customers with tools for

s. These include 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, as well was engineering services, consulting, training, and support. Such tools have been deployed in the auto industry since the early 1990s to help achieve shorter development cycles, increased

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, and improved fault analysis. The ETAS subsidiary ESCRYPT (acquired in August 2012) provides security solutions related to embedded systems.

Major product lines

Automotive
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AUTOSAR AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) is a global development partnership founded in 2003 by automotive manufacturers, suppliers and other companies from the electronics, semiconductor and software industries. Its purpose is to develop ...

classic stack *

adaptive stack * Deterministic middleware based on

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or QNX

ASCET

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

software design Software design is the process of conceptualizing how a software system will work before it is implemented or modified. Software design also refers to the direct result of the design process the concepts of how the software will work which co ...

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

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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 ...

of Electronic Control Unit (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 ...

MISRA Misra or Mishra may refer to: * Motor Industry Software Reliability Association * MISRA C, a software development standard for the C programming language * Misra', half of a bayt in Arabic, Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry * Mishra or Misra, an ...

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, UML 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 offe ...

. Typical deployment in the development of electronic control units for internal combustion engines, hybrid propulsion systems, transmission control units,

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

ESCRYPT

Cybersecurity products for protecting automotive systems, devices and applications: * CycurFUZZ: smart fuzzer tool for automotive systems * CycurSoC: embedded

cybersecurity Computer security (also cybersecurity, digital security, or information technology (IT) security) is a subdiscipline within the field of information security. It consists of the protection of computer software, systems and networks from thr ...

software solution for SoC-based automotive ECUs * CycurGATE: high-performance automotive Ethernet/IP firewall and router * CycurHSM: HSM security firmware * CycurIDS: embedded intrusion detection for CAN and Ethernet networks * CycurLIB: comprehensive

cryptographic Cryptography, or cryptology (from "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or '' -logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behavior. More gen ...

library for embedded systems * CycurRISK: software tool for threat analysis and risk assessment

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 to ...

, 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 specification (technical standard), specifications and that it fulf ...

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 Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation, also known by various acronyms such as HiL, HITL, and HWIL, is a technique that is used in the development and testing of complex real-time embedded systems. HIL simulation provides an effective testing platf ...

(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, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machine ...

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-CAR

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s (RTOS) for ECU

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: * Conformant with standards such as

ISO 26262 ISO 26262, titled "Road vehicles – Functional safety", is an international standard for functional safety of electrical and/or electronic systems that are installed in serial production road vehicles (excluding mopeds), defined by the Intern ...

up to ASIL D * 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 take ...

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

External links

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