Why you want to use industry standard tools now!
Have you ever heard of the Voron-Project? There is a high chance you haven’t! 🙂 However, I am pretty sure you have heard about 3D printing! If you – like me – ever started 3D printing as a hobby, you wanted to get to know and understand every detail. The first parts I printed were […]
What you should know about testing variants
Creating different variants of a software component is an efficient way of reusing existing and developed features for different versions of a specific component or controller. Thus, testing variants is an ubiquitous task in the automotive industry that needs to be taken into account during testing. How are variants created in a Model-based Software development process? When […]
Why requirements are so important for your project
“What is the biggest challenge in projects?“ I asked that question during a coffee break at the 2022 MathWorks Automotive Conference in Stuttgart; I will share the answer I got in a minute. But first, what do you think the biggest challenge in embedded software development projects is? Quite often, we think that the biggest […]
Why Back-to-back testing is still needed for floating-point
Introduction When I started working at BTC Embedded Systems in 2014, floating-point was a rare topic in customer meetings and many control units supported fixed-point only. But since then, floating-point became more and more important and has fully arrived in the projects today. Back-to-back testing can be used for various use cases but the most […]