RTI and Vector

As automotive manufacturers accelerate the shift to Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs), they must develop, analyze, and test across an increasingly complex system of systems. 

Connext enables the required real-time, reliable, scalable data exchange and provides the DDS-based communication across SDVs, zonal architecture, and Ethernet backbones. Vector CANoe provides comprehensive simulation, analysis, and testing capabilities for automotive bus systems, including CAN, LIN, FlexRay, and Ethernet.  

Together, RTI and Vector provide a way to future-proof the automotive architecture through a combined toolchain for mixed-technology environments. This supports communication and testing across current and next-generation vehicle architectures, ensuring long-term investment protection.  

This supports rapid simulation, troubleshooting and testing for:

• DDS-enabled ECUs with legacy CAN-based ECUs
• Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) 
• Software-in-the-Loop (SiL)   

The RTI Connext Integration Toolkit for AUTOSAR provides developers with code generators, runtime components, and examples to integrate DDS™ connectivity in their AUTOSAR designs. Through the Connext Drive databus, developers can directly transfer data between simulated and actual hardware components. This saves dozens of hours of custom development work, reducing project costs while preserving performance and AUTOSAR methodology alignment. 

The toolkit helps OEMs in their step-wise approach toward SDV development by providing the communication link between AUTOSAR and non-AUTOSAR components. For more information about RTI and AUTOSAR integration, please visit our webpage.

Together, Connext Drive and CANoe enable:

• Comprehensive analysis and debugging that scales from embedded controllers to high-performance compute units 
• A combined toolchain that supports both current and next-generation vehicle architectures
• End-to-end system validation of DDS-based applications to traditional networks
• Shorter, faster feedback loop via a consistent data model
• Rapid troubleshooting and optimization of both DDS and CAN-based communication

The growing complexity and interconnectedness of modern MedTech systems increases the potential failure modes of the device and requires systems be designed to meet demanding performance, reliability, and functional requirements across use cases and operational states. Design failures can lead to safety issues, longer product lifecycles, and costly remediation and maintenance activities after products are deployed.

RTI and Vector provide an integrated approach to accelerate device development and testing of interoperable applications and systems. 

Connext provides the data-centric connectivity foundation for adaptable and scalable system architectures across new and legacy applications spanning surgical robotics, imaging, and patient monitoring solutions. Vector CANoe provides a comprehensive tool suite for automated testing and simulation across a variety of transport protocols. By using CANoe in a distributed system with Connext, product teams can efficiently design, simulate, and verify their applications and systems across development stages, leveraging state of the art technologies and tools, lowering program risks, and reducing product lifecycle costs.