HOEHENKIRCHEN, GERMANY, 2017 – The standardization association ASAM e.V. is well known for its standards in the The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.Measurement & The process of ECU parameter tuning. Tests with ECU hardware and software in the loop are carried out. ECU internal variables and external sensor data is recorded and analyzed. The values of internal ECU parameters are determined as a result of this process.Calibration area (Measurement and CalibrationMC) for the development of automotive ECUs. Almost every commercial-off-the-shelf tool on the market in the Measurement and CalibrationMC-area today is based on ASAM standards. However, there had been one significant gap in standardization, which is direct, high-speed ECU access via PODs (Plug-On DevicePOD: plug-on device). Those hardware adapters have always been proprietary tools from specialist tool vendors, specifically developed for different access interfaces (e.g. debug ports) and microcontrollers. They require a driver in ECU software. The new A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.Standard ASAM Measurement, Calibration and DiagnosticsMCD-1 Plug-On DevicePOD standardizes the interface of this driver.
PODs are hardware adapters, which provide direct and fast read-write access for Measurement and CalibrationMC-tools and debuggers to the ECU's internal resources such as Random Access MemoryRAM or Flash memory. PODs require a driver in the ECU software, called the Plug-On DevicePOD Service Software (PSS), which handles the communication between the ECU software and external tool(s). ASAM Measurement, Calibration and DiagnosticsMCD-1 Plug-On DevicePOD standardizes major parts of the PSS, significantly easing the job of ECU basic software developers and integrators. This has the major advantage that PODs and external tools can be exchanged without major changes to the internal ECU software, or with no changes to the ECU software at all in the most ideal case ('plug-and-play'). Consequently, it becomes much easier to switch tools for ECU development and testing activities, and to ultimately achieve the freedom to select the most appropriate tools for a given task.
The A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.Standard supports the technical processes of Plug-On DevicePOD configuration, detection and initialization. Furthermore, the use-cases of synchronous The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.Measurement and The process of ECU parameter tuning. Tests with ECU hardware and software in the loop are carried out. ECU internal variables and external sensor data is recorded and analyzed. The values of internal ECU parameters are determined as a result of this process.Calibration are supported. More use-cases might be added in future versions of the A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.Standard. The A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.Standard specifies an Application Programming InterfaceAPI between the PSS and the ECU software. Some Application Programming InterfaceAPI functions are fully ASAM-specified and others just contain the syntactic interface description, allowing vendor-specific implementations within the PSS. Furthermore, an ASAM MCD-2 MC LanguageA2L-file is provided for ASAM-compliant Measurement and CalibrationMC-tools. In parallel, the ASAM Measurement, Calibration and DiagnosticsMCD-1 Universal Measurement and Calibration Protocol (ASAM Standard)XCP A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.Standard has been extended with new commands and events to configure a Plug-On DevicePOD and retrieve status information. The A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.Standard is shipped with a reference implementation for the standardized PSS functions.
The A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.Standard has been created to support the development and integration of vendor-independent software drivers for the integration of PODs in ECUs. Tool vendors in the area of The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.Measurement and The process of ECU parameter tuning. Tests with ECU hardware and software in the loop are carried out. ECU internal variables and external sensor data is recorded and analyzed. The values of internal ECU parameters are determined as a result of this process.Calibration systems, debuggers, data loggers and rapid control prototyping systems may decide to implement a driver according to this A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.Standard. ECU software developers and integrators, particularly in the area of basic ECU software, as well as experts in development tools & methods at Original Equipment ManufacturerOEM- and Tier-1-companies would profit most from using the A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.Standard. The most prominent benefit of having an ASAM-compliant PSS in the ECU is the easy integration and quick exchange of external ECU tools within the same development and testing project.
Major automotive companies such as Volkswagen, Robert Bosch, Continental Automotive and AVL LIST participated in the development of the A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.Standard. Tool vendors such as Accurate Technologies, dSPACE, ETAS, Intrepid Control Systems, RA Consulting and Vector Informatik contributed their technical expertise. The A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.Standard has undergone a public review by ASAM members in April and May this year and was released by ASAM in June 2017. The A public specification, which has been developed by experts in a defined consensus-driven development process and was released by officials that represent a significant share of the industry for which it is targeted, giving the specification the necessary legitimacy to be called a 'Standard'.Standard is immediately available for download from ASAM's webpage free-of-charge for ASAM members or can be purchased by non-members.
About ASAM e.V.
ASAM e.V. coordinates the development of technical standards. These standards define protocols, data models, file formats and application programming interfaces (APIs) for the use in the development and testing of automotive electronic control units. A large amount of popular tools in the areas of Is the process of imitation of the behavior of a modeled real-world system over time.Simulation, The process of recording data from internal ECU memory and external sensors.Measurement, The process of ECU parameter tuning. Tests with ECU hardware and software in the loop are carried out. ECU internal variables and external sensor data is recorded and analyzed. The values of internal ECU parameters are determined as a result of this process.Calibration and test automation are compliant to ASAM standards. Compliance shall guarantee interoperability of tools from different vendors, allow data exchange without the need for converters, and facilitate the exchange of unambiguous A document, which describes in detail the interfaces and behavior of a technical system for the purpose of implementing, integrating and operating the system.Specification between customers and suppliers.
Founded in 1998 as a German association, ASAM has today more than 200 international members, including major OEMs in Germany, France, Great Britain, US, Japan, and China. ASAM has a portfolio of 24 standards among them the well established Measurement, Calibration and DiagnosticsMCD (measuring, The process of ECU parameter tuning. Tests with ECU hardware and software in the loop are carried out. ECU internal variables and external sensor data is recorded and analyzed. The values of internal ECU parameters are determined as a result of this process.Calibration, The subsystem of an ECU or ECU networks, which performs error detection, handling and communication.Diagnostics)-standards with a market distribution of up to 80% worldwide. The infrastructural standards of ASAM are used by many of the big international Original Equipment ManufacturerOEM
