International Automotive Conference

AccelChip Inc. is a leading provider of algorithmic synthesis and verification tools for DSP design. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Milpitas, California, the company develops and markets a MATLAB®-based algorithmic synthesis environment, including DSP parametric libraries and consulting services, that enable a true, top-down DSP design process. AccelChip's unique DSP Design Automation (DDA) solutions link the domain-specific DSP design environment with industry-standard FPGA, ASIC, and structured ASIC design flows. These are proven to dramatically accelerate the DSP design cycle and increase the quality of results. With AccelChip® DSP Synthesis tools, algorithm designers can take designs created in MATLAB and automatically synthesize a high quality silicon implementation.

TRIAS Mikroelektronik, the Sales and Support Partner of AccelChip for Central Europe, offers a complete solution for the ASIC/FPGA development.

• EDA Design Software for FPGA and ASIC
• ASIC/FPGA Design Services
• Hard-/Software Design Services
• ASIC/ASSP/Module Products
• IP Cores
• ASIC/ARM Emulation & Evaluation Boards

AccelChip, Inc.

Accurate Technologies Inc (ATI) provides open architecture, flexible integrated systems and services for embedded controls system development. ATI’s patent pending No-Hooks™ Technology is a software centric rapid prototyping system. No-Hooks is an add-on feature from ATI’s VISION calibration measurement software that allows users to disable, change or expand the functionality of control algorithms or control the value of RAM variables without the need or access to the ECU source code.

OnTarget™ is ATI’s second software centric rapid prototyping technology. OnTarget combines the No-Hooks capability with MATLAB®, Simulink® and Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder. Simulink models and ECU software are integrated into a single executable by the OnTarget block set. This solution for rapid prototyping is unique since additional rapid prototyping hardware and knowledge of the ECU source code is not necessary for OnTarget.

ATI is a global supplier of control system development tools headquartered in Wixom, Michigan, USA. The company has over 12 years of experience in automotive controls and ECU application and measurement tools. ATI maintains an international operation of subsidiary and affiliate offices with software development or product support in Sweden, France, Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India and China.

Accurate Technologies Inc.

ARTiSAN Software Tools is a global leader for innovative UML-based modelling tools for the development of real-time embedded systems. ARTiSAN offers a solution that enables development teams to visualize, design and validate systems and simplifies implementation with code generation and software reuse. ARTiSAN’s products are integrated by interfaces to most of the other essential techniques of the software development process like tools for requirements management and configuration management. Due to the strong focus on the Automotive market sector there is also an integration with MATLAB/Simulink concerning co-simulation via the product EXITE, which is provided by our partner EXTESSY and supports the run-time communication between the partners involved in a simulation.

In addition to the modelling tools, ARTiSAN offers training as well as mentoring and consulting services in order to provide their customers as fast as possible with the necessary know-how and experience for the utilization of up-to-date development methods and techniques.

ARTiSAN Software Tools, Inc., founded in March 1997, is privately held with headquarters in Cheltenham, United Kingdom. The company has regional sales offices and distributors throughout the world. The German GmbH is located in Cologne since October 2000.

ARTiSAN Software Tools GmbH

DECOMSYS is the answer to all your FlexRay needs! We have unique know-how from chip-design to test cases, from software to hardware, from consulting to engineering services, from training to support. You will find this exceptional expertise in all our products, such as the DECOMSYS::TOOLS and DECOMSYS::NODEs, as well as in any engineering und customization projects.

Since FlexRay is going to be the communication backbone of the distributed electronics in tomorrow's cars, our clients' list reads like the who-is-who of the automotive and high-tech world - BMW, DaimlerChrysler, and Motorola are only some of the renowned customers.

Emmerich Fuchs, Dietmar Millinger, and Michael Sprachmann established DECOMSYS in 1999. Since then, they have been translating the specific expertise into a technological and economical success story - together with 45 experts networking in flexible, task-oriented teams.

DECOMSYS Dependable Computer Systems

Sales growing at a constantly high rate, more than 500 employees and more than 10,000 installations throughout the world: This is dSPACE today, after more than 15 years as the world’s leading supplier of tools for developing and testing mechatronic control systems.

dSPACE systems enable manufacturers of controllers and electronic control units (ECUs) to reduce their development times and costs dramatically and noticeably increase their productivity. This is made possible by an optimum mixture of standard solutions for rapid control prototyping with dSPACE Prototyper, automatic production code generation with TargetLink, hardware-in-the-loop simulation with dSPACE Simulator and ECU calibration with the dSPACE Calibration System. Comprehensive services from on-site training to system engineering round off the dSPACE product portfolio.

dSPACE GmbH

ETAS, as a partner of the automotive industry, offers a complete spectrum of products and services for the development, manufacturing, and service of automotive industry embedded systems. ETAS systems comprise powerful hardware and software components, are modular and can be used separately or combined.

Through the acquisition of LiveDevices, located in York/Great Britain, ETAS strengthens and expands its embedded real-time systems product portfolio to address powertrain, chassis, body electronics, and car multimedia applications.

Together with Vetronix Corporation, Santa Barbara, CA (USA), a leading supplier of diagnostic service tools for vehicle electronics, ETAS now offers tools for all phases of the vehicle life cycle. The combination of ETAS' proven development tools and Vetronix' diagnostic and service solutions provides the foundation for a unique strategy: Diagnostic LifeCycle Solutions™.

ETAS GmbH

EXTESSY AG is a high-tech spin-off from the Technical University at Braunschweig / Germany. We offer professional services and software tools that enable customers to follow an integrated, tool-supported system development process.

EXTESSY´s consulting services cover the whole range from process analysis, tool evaluation and customizing to training and project implementation. Our software product EXITE (EXTESSY Inter Tool Engineering) enables any simulation to connect to another. It allows co-simulation among different timing-models via a standard PC network. EXITE currently supports ARTiSAN's Real-time Studio, Mathworks' Simulink, CAN-bus, ETAS ASCET and Synopsys Saber.

EXTESSY AG

Simulation of fluid technical systems especially in automobile applications is our profession. We offer sophisticated simulation software and engineering expertise.

The fluid power simulation software DSHplus stands for:

• Virtual engineering functionality in one tool, from the conception to the startup
• Dynamic nonlinear simulation
• Graphic based modeling concept
• Convenient handling of component parameters
• Open mathematical model description
• Various interfaces, e.g. to MATLAB®, DIAdem® , fuzzyTech®, NeuroModel®
• Co-simulation or model embedding with external simulators such as Simulink®, LMS Virtual.Lab®, MSC.ADAMS®, SIMPACK®, dSPACE®
• Special DLL interfaces enable the system developer to couple DSHplus with external controller hardware in order to perform HIL developments
• Decades of experience in fluid power simulation

Our specialists with their great fluid technical expertise are always eager to support inventors in the development, marketing and licensing of innovative fluid power applications.

With prominent, internationally operating companies various projects were/are carried out:

• Construction of simulation models for absorbers, pneumatic suspensions, power steering units, and injection systems
• Calculation of energy balances
• Development of real time models for car–braking systems

FLUIDON, that is competence in all kinds of fluid power technology.

FLUIDON

IMAGINE is the developer of AMESim®, an Adaptive Modeling Environment for SIMulation, which provides an engineering platform allowing to model complex multi-domain systems, run simulations and perform in-depth analysis. The AMESim platform enables engineers to study the static and dynamic behaviour of any component or system with an application oriented approach.

Engineers can benefit from a large range of standard libraries provided with AMESim, but they can also extend it or create their own libraries. This makes AMESim the preferred platform for multi-domain system design involving Hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical, thermal, electromechanical or control components for fluid power industries.

Additionally IMAGINE offers a complete set of services from training to consulting. For more information please contact your IMAGINE team.

IMAGINE Software GmbH

INTEC GmbH develops the technology leading multi-body code SIMPACK. With the help of its partners and subsidiaries, INTEC distributes and supports SIMPACK worldwide. INTEC GmbH additionally offers consulting and engineering services to a wide customer base in the automotive and truck market.

SIMPACK is a tool used to simulate mechanical systems; it is able to analyse vibrational behaviour, calculate forces and accelerations, and describe and predict the motion of any complex multi-body system. The basic concept of the multi-body simulation software SIMPACK is to create the equations of motion for mechanical and mechatronic systems. A CAD like model is built-up, and various different calculation methods are used (e.g. time integration) to obtain a solution. SIMPACK offers an extensive range of interfaces to FEA, CAD and CACE systems.

The interfaces SIMAT, a co-simulation tool, and MATSIM, the export of a Realtime Workshop model couple SIMPACK to MATLAB/Simulink. These interfaces allow mechatronic systems to be efficiently modelled combining the advantages of a MBS software and control package within a single environment. Additionally SIMPACK can export the equations of motion into the Simulink environment resulting in a S-function for any multi-body system, which can then be used independently from SIMPACK.

INTEC GmbH

For about 20 years IPG has been the specialist for vehicle dynamics simulation. Since the beginning IPG has been focusing on simulation and tests for engine-driven road vehicles exclusively - passenger cars, trucks, racing cars and motorcycles. And for 15 years IPG has been spearheading the hardware in the loop market for vehicle development.

This is the basis on which IPG develops and distributes the CarMaker® product family - tried and tested standard tools with a leading technology for extremely realistic virtual driving:

• hardware in the loop (HIL) simulators for realistic tests for motor vehicle control devices
• reliable off-line simulation tools for software in the loop (SIL) and model in the loop (MIL)

At the International Automotive Conference 2004 the focus will be on the new, heavily improved version 2.0 of CarMaker for Simulink and CarMaker/HIL.

CarMaker for Simulink 2.0 especially features a revised modular block structure. Thus, existing functional units like braking system, powertrain or steering system can easily be replaced or extended in Simulink with user defined model parts. Adding complete subsystems like an ESP control unit may be done in a straightforward way.

CarMaker for Simulink’s functional models and the entire simulation environment are identical to those of its real-time counterpart CarMaker/HIL. As one consequence, automated test runs created in CarMaker for Simulink may be executed on a CarMaker/HIL test stand in later stages of development. Likewise, features like automated test execution and Direct Variable Access are available.

IPG Automotive GmbH

If you want to develop high-quality and reliable software for electronic control units (ECUs), IT Power Consultants is your right partner! The company’s profound know-how, expertise and competencies in the field of ECU software development help you to optimize your development processes and the use of development tools.

IT Power Consultants provide consulting services for all aspects of model-based software development. Contact us for questions of validation and verification of your software (test planning, test case determination, test execution, test evaluation, test documentation and test management) or the optimal use of software development tools (tailoring of standard tools for your specific development processes).

Our tools SimEx and MEval arose from the knowledge on your needs when devloping ECU software.

For integrating your tool environment in the field of model-based software development, SimEx converts software model data from Simulink®/Stateflow® into the universally used XML format.

MEval helps you to compare signals reliably by using an innovative algorithm, which was especially developed for time dependent signals. The test evaluation in MATLAB®/Simulink can be automized by using the MEval batch modus.

IT Power Consultants

ITI GmbH Dresden is a developer and provider of software for the design, modeling, and analysis of technical systems and components. ITI tools offer comfortable libraries for a fast and easy modeling in automotive engineering, fluid power, rail vehicles, vehicle powertrains, or mechanical engineering. The libraries mechanics, power transmission (motors, couplings, transmission components), hydraulics, pneumatics, thermics, thermofluids, magnetics, and electronics provide an extensive collection of pre-defined models for the simulation of mechatronic systems.

Based on its software products, ITI also performs engineering and consulting tasks, as well as customization and programming services for its customers. For more information about ITI services please visit www.iti.de.

In connection with The MathWorks Connections Program ITI has developed several interfaces for using models and data within the MATLAB/Simulink environment. ITI currently supports:

• Online co-simulation between Simulink and ITI
• C Code Import into ITI simulation software by means of DLLs
• C Code Export of ITI models to Simulink or any other target platform (RealTime, RCP, HiL, SiL)

In the industrial sector, ITI software products are established in different CAE environments. Apart from the MATLAB/Simulink interfaces, solutions for coupling ITI software to FEM (e.g. Ansys), CFD (e.g. Fluent), and MKS (e.g. Simpack, Adams) are successfully applied. COM and database interfaces, as well as tools for data and project management complete the ITI toolset.

ITI GmbH

Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most successful electronics and semiconductor companies.

Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about $675 million and employs approximately 3,700 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777; European headquarters: Arnulfstrasse 201, 80634 Münich, Germany, Phone: +49(0)89-57096-0.

Mentor Graphics (Deutschland) GmbH

OSC - Embedded Systems, founded 2002 in Oldenburg/Germany, combines leading edge technology know-how with a commitment to aggressively enter the embedded systems market. The aim of OSC - Embedded Systems is to provide tools for the formal verification and validation of embedded systems. It benefits from 16 years of research in the area of formal methods at the University of Oldenburg and 10 years of research and development at OFFIS e.V. In order to provide automatic validation tools which are accepted in industry, OSC - Embedded Systems works in close cooperation with key partners in the automotive, avionics, and train systems markets.

OSC – Embedded Systems offers the validation tools Statemate ModelChecker™ and Statemate ModelCertifier™ as well as the automatic test vector generation tool StatemateATG™ for the system level design tool StatemateMAGNUM™ from I-Logix.

For the UML tool family Rhapsody (I-Logix) OSC – Embedded Systems delivers products for the automatic test generation and test execution.

Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow is another wide spread CASE tool offered by The MathWorks. OSC – Embedded Systems is going to provide Simulink/Stateflow engineers with the approved technology of automatic model validation based on model-checking.

OSC - Embedded Systems AG

The OpenECU automotive rapid prototyping platform offers a new solution to engine and vehicle control systems development, with unique features at a remarkable price. OpenECU helps you get quickly to what you need: working, robust control systems. Features of OpenECU include:

• Automotive production ECUs
• Simulink models autocoded direct to target
• Suitable for Fleet applications
• Proven off-the-shelf Simulink gasoline engine control strategies
• Calibration via ASAP-2/CCP compliant tool

Our experienced applications engineers provide additional services, which span

• sensors & actuators selection and sourcing
• wiring loom design and manufacture
• custom hardware modifications
• custom control strategy development

We have customers worldwide supported by our US , UK and German offices and distributor network.

Pi Technology

Reactive Systems, Inc. (RSI), is a worldwide technology leader in model-based testing and validation tools for embedded software. The company’s Reactis® tool automatically generates high-quality test data from Simulink and Stateflow models, and it provides capabilities for applying these tests to systems and checking model behavior with respect to tests. Current uses of the tool range from model validation to unit- and system-level testing of embedded systems against model-based specifications. Reactis enables engineers to do more thorough testing and validation more efficiently, thereby empowering them to build better control software faster.

RSI was started in 1999 by three PhD computer scientists. The company’s core technology derives from $10 million in university and national-laboratory research on software verification and validation undertaken by its founders before founding the firm. RSI’s automotive customers include both OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers in Asia, Europe and North America; the company also has customers in the aerospace, military and consumer-electronics industries. The company is based in the Washington, DC, suburb of Falls Church, Virginia.

Reactive Systems, Inc.

SimuQuest provides products and services to support model-based embedded software and control system development from concept through production. Customers include OEMs and suppliers specializing in engine, vehicle, and body control. Matlab, Simulink, Stateflow and RTW embedded coder are the core tools used by SimuQuest to create a virtual development environment.

SimuQuest (Simulink based) tools:

• RPC++

  - Provides the capability to architect complex control logic to enable true plug and play development for the rapid development of embedded applications and a swift transition across different development environments, e.g., from a virtual environment (involving a plant model) to a rapid prototyping environment and/or to a production intent environment.

• BIOS Blocksets for MPC5xx & PIC micros

  - These blockset can be inserted into RPC++ to provide a complete software architecture for control strategy development.

• Engine++/AutoTune++

  - Virtual engine control logic development requires an accurate engine model. Models available on the market take a long time to tune to match an actual engine. For OEMs that have a number of different engines it would take months to manually tune them prohibiting practical virtual development. Engine++ has the distinct advantage in that it can be automatically tuned for a given engine based on standard engine mapping data. The automated tuning takes less than an hour to run and results in a highly accurate engine model.

SimuQuest, Inc.

T-Systems is one of Europe’s leading providers of information and communications technology (ICT). Within the Deutsche Telekom group, T-Systems is responsible for serving major business accounts. The company has some 41,000 staff on its payrolls in more than 20 countries. In 2003, the solutions provider generated €10.6 billion in sales. T-Systems has approximately 41,000 employees in more than 20 countries. In 2003, the company posted revenues of around 10.6 billion euros.

T-Systems’ solutions improve the business competitiveness of its customers in the industry sectors telecommunications, services and finance, public and healthcare as well as manufacturing. In the area of automotive electronics, T-Systems is one of the leading systems integrators with core competencies in diagnosis, software logistics and model-based development.

Thanks to many years of close cooperation with major OEMs, automotive suppliers and standardization bodies, T-Systems has acquired in-depth expertise for electric / electronic systems in passenger cars.

T-Systems’ service offering portfolio for automotive electronics encompasses:

• System design and systems integration.
• Application management for ICT systems.
• Roll-out and operation of processes, methods, and tool chains.
• Engineering activities and technical on-site consulting during the development, manufacturing and after-sales processes of automotive manufacturers and suppliers.

This offering covers all phases in the lifecycle of ICT and automotive electronic systems.

T-Systems

Founded in 1983, Telelogic® is a leading global provider of solutions for advanced systems and software development. Telelogic's intuitive, best-in-class software tools automate and support best practices throughout the application development lifecycle, leaving development teams free to concentrate on core competencies and apply their skills and energy to value-added tasks. By optimizing each phase of development, Telelogic enables companies to deliver higher quality systems and software with greater predictability, reduced time-to-market and lower overall costs.

To ensure interoperability with third-party tools, Telelogic's products are built on an open architecture and standardized languages. As an industry leader and technology visionary, Telelogic is actively involved in shaping the future of advanced systems and software development by participating in industry organizations like ETSI, INCOSE, ITU-T, OMG and others.

Headquartered in Malmö, Sweden with U.S. headquarters in Irvine, California, Telelogic has operations in 17 countries worldwide. Customers include Alcatel, BAE SYSTEMS, BMW, Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Philips, Siemens, Thales and Vodafone. For more information, please visit www.telelogic.com.

Telelogic Deutschland GmbH

TTI GmbH, the technology transfer initiative of the University of Stuttgart offers you GESOP, the universal tool for control and parameter optimization of dynamic systems. GESOP opens you the road to optimization, as it is not necessary any more to learn complicated tools running controlled through scripts. A much larger group of engineers will be able to use optimization.

GESOP combines several optimization techniques in a graphical user interface, which supports all user activities: the direct collocation methods TROPIC and SOCS, licensed from The Boeing Company, and the multiple shooting method PROMIS and the hybrid optimizer CAMTOS. Your model may be linked as a Simulink model, or may be programmed as Matlab, Fortran 77, Ada 95 or C code. Path and boundary constraints as well cost functions can be defined within the interface. An initial guess generator and a simulation program together with evaluation tools complete the software package.

Originally developed for the aerospace industry, GESOP is the ultimate tool for automotive engineers now. Additional features like GESOP's parameter identification capabilities open a wide field of applications. Benefit from more than 12 years of our experience with optimization problems.

TTI GmbH

TESIS DYNAware is an independent partner with expertise in real-time automotive simulation. Our proven products assist development of your controls or components using a virtual vehicle – off-board and on-board with a Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) test stand.

Our vision is the complete simulation of the virtual vehicle in laboratory. In automotive industry the virtual cars are realized by using HIL test benches.

TESIS DYNAware provides a real-time capable virtual vehicle, the Experimental Simulation Car, comprising a combination of high precision models of vehicle dynamics (ve-DYNA) including road and driver model, engine dynamics (en-DYNA), and brake hydraulics (DYNAtools BrakeHydraulics).

Our products provide you with the appropriate simulation models to test your controls or components in a virtual vehicle under conditions that are very close to reality, either offline or online in real time on the HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop) test bed. No matter whether it is a city car, Formula One race car, tractor with trailer, internal-combustion engine, ABS hydraulics – many models are already available or can be added individually.

TESIS DYNAware GmbH

Vector is the leading manufacturer of software tools and software components for networking in electronic systems based on CAN, LIN, MOST, FlexRay etc. Vector products are responsible for seamless communication, e.g. between electronic components in modern vehicles.

Customers from the automotive engineering, the transportation and control technologies around the world trust in the solutions and products designed by Vector:

• Tools and software components for networking in electronic systems
• Tools for development, calibration and diagnostics of automotive electronic control units
• Consulting and tools for the development process of automotive electronic systems
• Customer-specific software components as well as the integration of ECU software and automotive networks

Vector is located in:

• Stuttgart, Germany as Vector Informatik GmbH and Vector Consulting GmbH
• Göteborg, Sweden as VecScan AB
• Novi, Michigan/USA as Vector CANtech Inc.
• Paris, France as Vector France SAS
• Tokyo as Vector Japan Co. Ltd.

Vector Informatik GmbH