Business Expertise

Automotive

Thanks to its diverse offer covering several fields (industry/M2M, telecoms, distribution – logistics, energy – home automation, e-Commerce etc.), Pentalog provides car industry suppliers with comprehensive services in order to help them adapt to the changes in the automotive field. This sector is evolving from a product-based industry to a service-based industry, which facilitates interaction among all market players, thus eliminating the traditional vertical system: car maker, car equipment manufacturers (1st, 2nd, 3rd rank etc.) and, finally, suppliers.

Due to the market launch of electric vehicles, the growing demand in security (for the driver, passengers and pedestrians), and the arrival of the "intelligent" car, electronics embedded in vehicles has become a basic feature in cars. It amounts to 80% of the innovations registered on this highly competitive market. In fact, the world market of automotive electronics is expected to go from 134.4 billion dollars in 2010 to 243.7 billion in 2015. Architectural standards, like AutoSAR, development standards, like ISO26262, are beginning to be used by all players worldwide.

Our Expertise

With the creation of ever more powerful computers (Electronic Control Unit: ECU), vehicles need fewer and fewer of them (3 main computers: vehicle management (body and comfort), security management (passenger and chassis) and propulsion management (engine)). This renders vehicles even more intelligent and allows them to be connected to the outside world. Therefore, service offers are multiplying and becoming increasingly various: providing and retrieving information related to the vehicle (the vehicle itself, the surrounding vehicles, the driver, the merchandise being carried), advanced security management (both for passengers and the external environment: pedestrians, other vehicles), implementing advanced remote diagnostic solutions (automatic meeting scheduling, planning the recharging of the electric vehicle battery while on the road etc.).

Pentalog engineers provide the following types of support in ECU-related development projects:

• Consulting during the design phase for:

• Integrating a new operating system
• Improving the existing software architectures
• Interfacing the software elements with the physical resources of the ECU
• Supporting the migration of old ECU architectures towards FlexRay and AutoSAR standards

• Specifications, integration and tests during specific phases like:

• Support at the project kick-off (on the customer's premises, if necessary)
• Integration and configuration of standard embedded components into your projects
• Customizing and configuring external components
• Specifying, developing and maintaining customized communication protocols which are adapted to the system
• Integrating and verifying the ECUs with the rest of the system
• Drafting and executing test cases and plans based on the functional specifications
• Executing test cases

Our Services

Pentalog offers different services in order to help you throughout your project:

Example of architecture

• Mechanics:

• Creating 3D models using Catia V4 and V5
• Creating technical drawings according to the specifications
• Creating and maintaining recycling passports
• Calculating tolerances
• Simulating constraints

Tools

• Programming languages: C, C++, C#, Java, ASP .Net
• Development platforms: Labview, Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse
• Calculation and simulation: Matlab / Simulink (Mathwoks)
• Automatic code generator: TargetLing (dSpace)
• Communication: CAN, LIN, FlexRay
• Script languages: Python, Perl, Tcl
• Osek : OilCfg (Vector)
• XML