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Resolve timing issues, clarify system architecture, and avoid task forces by inviting INCHRON to work alongside your team as they develop their automotive ECU. A range of services that support you across the V.
For system architects, project managers, and integrators.
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Timing Know-How at Your Service
With INCHRON’s focus on innovation, integrity, and customer-centric partnerships, we support automotive development teams with a range of services. These place timing, performance, and event chains at the heart of each automotive project, from inception to SoP.
Leveraging our years of knowledge and timing tools, we undertake the necessary timing analysis, report the results, and provide recommendations to your team on issue resolution.
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Supporting You Through Each Project Phase Until SoP
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Collaborating With Your Architects, Developers, Integrators, and Managers
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Done For You, With You, or Simply Do It Yourself
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Supporting Everyone With Timing – From New Hires to Experienced Developers
Supporting You Through Each Project Phase Until SoP
Regardless of where you find yourself in your automotive project, INCHRON’s team is ready to work alongside you or help you resolve timing challenges yourself.
We can support you every step of the way, from clarifying project requirements and defining those all-important timing requirements to analyzing and resolving timing issues during software integration.
Collaborating With Your Architects, Developers, Integrators, Testers, and Managers
When dealing with timing, everyone’s involved. But not necessarily all at the same time. INCHRON works alongside those with the greatest need at the moment that need arises.
Early on, we’ll explore robust system architecture approaches.
Later, we’ll help your developers and testers to ensure timing conformance.
Near the project’s end, helping resolve integration issues is more relevant. And, at every stage, communication with the project management team is key.
Done For You, With You, or Simply Do It Yourself
For some, the challenge of timing and analyzing event chains is a daily event across their many projects. For others, it’s something that’s addressed as the need arises.
Regardless of your needs, INCHRON can undertake all the necessary work, work alongside you, or enable your team to tackle timing themselves.
Supporting Everyone With Timing – From New Hires to Experienced Developers
The automotive software industry is changing rapidly, drawing upon resources from across the experience spectrum.
Some are hard-core, real-time experts.
Others are used to building apps on servers and back-end systems.
As a result, understanding and appreciation for the nuances of real-time performance may not be shared knowledge. INCHRON’s team of engineers can bridge such gaps, drawing everyone together in collaboration around event chains and timing issues.
Get Automotive Software Timing
Under Control with…
Event Chain Engineering:
Works alongside your team to identify and document your project’s event chains. Provides recommendations for optimizations and architecture improvements.
Requirements Engineering:
Defines, analyzes, and validates timing requirements and end-to-end event chains from existing sources and stakeholders.
Architecture Analysis and Optimization:
Reviews the dynamic behavior of your system architecture, delivering suggestions for improvements from our expert team.
ECU Performance Monitoring:
Analyzes the real-time behavior of each software version based on your trace files. Regularly delivers your team with evaluation reports and expert recommendations regarding potential improvements.
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Processes, Methods, and Tool (PMT) Consulting:
Advises on optimal work- and toolflow for event chain engineering based on your existing tools.
“…use of INCHRON’s methodology in our multi domain controller project … provided a solid system architecture timing.”
Christian Winkler, MAN Truck & Bus AG, Senior Manager
What Are Event Chains?
In the vehicle, data from sensors results in an actuator reaction. Such paths are known as event chains and can be evaluated from end-to-end at the vehicle, ECU, and SoC levels.
They exist across the vehicle, from ADAS and chassis to intelligent lighting systems…
What Are Event Chains?
In the vehicle, data from sensors results in an actuator reaction. Such paths are known as event chains and can be evaluated from end-to-end at the vehicle, ECU, and SoC levels. They exist across the vehicle, from ADAS and chassis to intelligent lighting systems.
Ranging from milliseconds to hundreds of milliseconds, they deliver timing requirements in addition to functional requirements.
By adopting shift-left testing, timing and performance evaluation begins at the start of the project and accompanies it until its completion.
As the industry moves to software-defined vehicles (SDV) and new, zonal E/E architectures, INCHRON supports teams developing automotive ECUs to successfully navigate the timing challenges that arise throughout the development process.
Teams using INCHRON’s services benefit from early recognition of timing budget overruns and problematic trends, improved project efficiency through interdisciplinary collaboration, and a reduction in task forces resolving issues close to start-of-production (SoP).
Your Team Does the Software, INCHRON Does the Timing
The challenges relating to timing analysis aren’t always something that you wish to deal with yourself, or something that requires continuous review throughout your entire project. INCHRON’s services provide support with your timing challenges when you need it, allowing your team to continue concentrating on their priorities.
Collaborating with INCHRON on timing makes sense when you:
- are capital expenditure limited.
- don’t want to purchase more software licenses.
- want to avoid losing your team members for days of training.
- need a timing expert only occasionally.
Moving from using our services to integrating our tools within your development process is always possible whenever you’re ready. And, of course, our service packages are available for a fixed fee.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Do I need an INCHRON chronSUITE software license?
No, our specialists have the necessary access to the timing tools used.
Do I need to book all the services listed?
We’re flexible regarding services and will recommend the packages that best meet your task or challenge. Depending on your project, some may be mandatory, while others may be optional. We’ll explain our recommendations after reviewing your specific project’s needs.
How are INCHRON’s services priced?
Our service packages are offered with an agreement regarding desired outcomes for a fixed price.
Where do we source the requirements for timing analysis?
Clear timing requirements are essential for a successful collaboration on the challenges surrounding timing, performance, and event chains. We start with the knowledge our customers are able to provide, based upon the application implementation and any existing code, combined with our expertise. Further required details typically transpire as we explore the challenges and get answers to key questions regarding the implementation.
Can we implement the analysis performed during INCHRON’s services ourselves?
Yes, once INCHRON’s experts have prepared the process and methodology for analyzing the timing of your application, you’re more than welcome to move the process in-house. We’ll support you with this transition and training the chosen project team members.
“We found errors 12 months earlier than usual and were able to … solve them efficiently.”
Thomas Jäger, Bosch, Architect ADAS
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If you’re looking for support with ECU performance monitoring, requirements engineering, or evaluation and optimization of your design, click below to get in touch.