Tools

A tool in ecu.test is a supported software that enables accessing test quantities.

The most tools provide more than one interface to access the system under test. For example ControlDesk offers the access of model quantities and can also address application quantities (like calibration and measurement quantities) on the control unit. To separate those separate interfaces, ecu.test uses so-called Ports.

Capability matrix

	MDL 🛈	APL 🛈	BAN 🛈	BMA 🛈	SVC 🛈	DGN 🛈	FIU 🛈	EES 🛈	FCT 🛈	DBG 🛈	IMG 🛈	AUDIO 🛈	ENVSIM 🛈	ENVCOM 🛈
A&D: iTest	✓
ASAM: ACI	✓
ASAM: iLinkRT		✓
ASAM: XIL	✓	✓		✓				✓
ASAP: STEP	✓
ATI: VISION		✓
AVL: LYNX	✓
AVL: PUMA	✓
Basler: pylon											✓
Beckhoff: TwinCAT	✓
Digiteq: FG4 MultiBox											✓
Digiteq: MGB											✓
dSPACE: AURELION
dSPACE: ControlDesk	✓	✓		✓	✓		✓	✓
dSPACE: ModelDesk													✓
dSPACE: MotionDesk
dSPACE: RTMaps
dSPACE: XIL API	✓			✓	✓			✓
EA: UTA 12	✓
EMVA: GenICam											✓
ESI: SimulationX	✓
ETAS: BOA		✓				✓
ETAS: COSYM-SIL	✓
ETAS: INCA		✓	✓
ETAS: LABCAR-PINCONTROL							✓
FEP	✓
FEP3	✓
FEV: Morphée	✓
froglogic: Squish											✓
Google: ADB											✓
Göpel: Video Dragon											✓
Hexagon: VTD													✓
HMS: ACT - Restbussimulation
HMS: Legacy Bus Interfaces (VCI V2)		✓				✓		✓
HMS: VCI V4		✓				✓		✓
HORIBA FuelCon: TestWork	✓
IDS: uEye											✓
IPETRONIK: ETHOS
IPG: CarMakerHeadless													✓
IPG: CarMaker|RealTimeMaker											✓		✓
JS Foundation: Appium											✓
Keysight: CDS	✓
Keysight: ESD	✓
KS Engineers: TornadoACI	✓
Lauterbach: TRACE32										✓
MAGNA: BluePiraT
Mathworks: MATLAB & Simulink	✓			✓
Mechanical Simulation Corporation: CarSim													✓
MicroNova: NovaCarts	✓							✓
Modelica Association: FMI	✓	✓		✓
MOTEON: MTB	✓
NI: LabVIEW									✓
NI: VeriStand	✓						✓
NI: VISA
Opal-RT: RT-LAB	✓			✓
PEAK: PCAN		✓				✓		✓
PLS: UDE										✓
QUANCOM: QLIB	✓						✓
RA Consulting: DiagRA D						✓
ROS2														✓
SAE: PassThru		✓				✓		✓
SFC: Selenium											✓
Softing: DTS						✓
Speedgoat: SimulinkRealTimeXIL	✓	✓		✓
Synopsys: Silver	✓	✓		✓
Synopsys: SilverXIL	✓	✓		✓
Synopsys: Virtualizer	✓	✓
Technica: BTS		✓				✓
Technica: CM		✓				✓
The GNU Project: GDB										✓
TOSUN: libTSCAN API		✓				✓		✓
tracetronic: Ethernet	✓	✓			✓	✓
tracetronic: Multimedia											✓	✓
tracetronic: RemoteCommand
tracetronic: RemoteCommandLinux
tracetronic: Serial interface	✓
tracetronic: SocketCAN		✓				✓		✓
tracetronic: SSH MultiConnect
tracetronic: ZeroMQ														✓
TTTech: TTXConnexion	✓			✓
Typhoon HIL: THCC	✓
Vector: CANape		✓	✓
Vector: CANoe / CANalyzer	✓		✓	✓
Vector: DYNA4
Vector: SIL Kit	✓	✓			✓	✓
Vector: XL API	✓	✓			✓	✓		✓
Vehinfo: LABCAR	✓			✓			✓
ViGEM: CCA
VW: ODIS						✓
X2E: Xoraya		✓			✓	✓		✓

Tools grouped by categories

Model 🛈

A&D: iTest ASAM: ACI ASAM: XIL ASAP: STEP AVL: LYNX AVL: PUMA Beckhoff: TwinCAT dSPACE: ControlDesk dSPACE: XIL API EA: UTA 12 ESI: SimulationX ETAS: COSYM-SIL FEP

FEP3 FEV: Morphée HORIBA FuelCon: TestWork Keysight: CDS Keysight: ESD KS Engineers: TornadoACI Mathworks: MATLAB & Simulink MicroNova: NovaCarts Modelica Association: FMI MOTEON: MTB NI: VeriStand Opal-RT: RT-LAB QUANCOM: QLIB

Speedgoat: SimulinkRealTimeXIL Synopsys: Silver Synopsys: SilverXIL Synopsys: Virtualizer tracetronic: Ethernet tracetronic: Serial interface TTTech: TTXConnexion Typhoon HIL: THCC Vector: CANoe / CANalyzer Vector: SIL Kit Vector: XL API Vehinfo: LABCAR

Application 🛈

ASAM: iLinkRT ASAM: XIL ATI: VISION dSPACE: ControlDesk ETAS: BOA ETAS: INCA HMS: Legacy Bus Interfaces (VCI V2) HMS: VCI V4

Modelica Association: FMI PEAK: PCAN SAE: PassThru Speedgoat: SimulinkRealTimeXIL Synopsys: Silver Synopsys: SilverXIL Synopsys: Virtualizer Technica: BTS

Technica: CM TOSUN: libTSCAN API tracetronic: Ethernet tracetronic: SocketCAN Vector: CANape Vector: SIL Kit Vector: XL API X2E: Xoraya

Bus active node 🛈

ETAS: INCA

Vector: CANape

Vector: CANoe / CANalyzer

Bus manipulation 🛈

ASAM: XIL dSPACE: ControlDesk dSPACE: XIL API Mathworks: MATLAB & Simulink

Modelica Association: FMI Opal-RT: RT-LAB Speedgoat: SimulinkRealTimeXIL Synopsys: Silver

Synopsys: SilverXIL TTTech: TTXConnexion Vector: CANoe / CANalyzer Vehinfo: LABCAR

Service 🛈

dSPACE: ControlDesk dSPACE: XIL API

tracetronic: Ethernet Vector: SIL Kit

Vector: XL API X2E: Xoraya

Diagnostics 🛈

ETAS: BOA HMS: Legacy Bus Interfaces (VCI V2) HMS: VCI V4 PEAK: PCAN RA Consulting: DiagRA D SAE: PassThru

Softing: DTS Technica: BTS Technica: CM TOSUN: libTSCAN API tracetronic: Ethernet tracetronic: SocketCAN

Vector: SIL Kit Vector: XL API VW: ODIS X2E: Xoraya

Electric failure simulation (FIU) 🛈

dSPACE: ControlDesk ETAS: LABCAR-PINCONTROL

NI: VeriStand QUANCOM: QLIB

Vehinfo: LABCAR

Electric error Simulation (EES) 🛈

ASAM: XIL dSPACE: ControlDesk dSPACE: XIL API HMS: Legacy Bus Interfaces (VCI V2)

HMS: VCI V4 MicroNova: NovaCarts PEAK: PCAN SAE: PassThru

TOSUN: libTSCAN API tracetronic: SocketCAN Vector: XL API X2E: Xoraya

Function access 🛈

NI: LabVIEW

Debugger 🛈

Lauterbach: TRACE32

PLS: UDE

The GNU Project: GDB

Multimedia access 🛈

Basler: pylon Digiteq: FG4 MultiBox Digiteq: MGB EMVA: GenICam

froglogic: Squish Google: ADB Göpel: Video Dragon IDS: uEye

IPG: CarMaker|RealTimeMaker JS Foundation: Appium SFC: Selenium tracetronic: Multimedia

Audio 🛈

tracetronic: Multimedia

Environment simulation 🛈

dSPACE: ModelDesk Hexagon: VTD

IPG: CarMakerHeadless IPG: CarMaker|RealTimeMaker

Mechanical Simulation Corporation: CarSim

Environment communication 🛈

ROS2

tracetronic: ZeroMQ

Other tools

• dSPACE: AURELION

• MAGNA: BluePiraT

• Vector: DYNA4

• IPETRONIK: ETHOS

• HMS: ACT - Restbussimulation

• dSPACE: MotionDesk

• tracetronic: RemoteCommand

• tracetronic: RemoteCommandLinux

• dSPACE: RTMaps

• tracetronic: SSH MultiConnect

• ViGEM: CCA

• NI: VISA

ecu.test supports tools on Windows and Linux platform. A tool listed as supported on Linux can be either accessed via the Linux Tool Server or directly using the ecu.test Linux-Runner.

Tools with supported operating systems

	Windows	Linux
A&D: iTest	✓	✓
ASAM: ACI	✓
ASAM: iLinkRT	✓	✓
ASAM: XIL	✓	✓
ASAP: STEP	✓
ATI: VISION	✓
AVL: LYNX	✓
AVL: PUMA	✓
Basler: pylon	✓	✓
Beckhoff: TwinCAT	✓
Digiteq: FG4 MultiBox	✓	✓
Digiteq: MGB	✓	✓
dSPACE: AURELION	✓
dSPACE: ControlDesk	✓
dSPACE: ModelDesk	✓	✓
dSPACE: MotionDesk	✓
dSPACE: RTMaps		✓
dSPACE: XIL API	✓	✓
EA: UTA 12	✓
EMVA: GenICam	✓	✓
ESI: SimulationX	✓
ETAS: BOA	✓
ETAS: COSYM-SIL	✓	✓
ETAS: INCA	✓
ETAS: LABCAR-PINCONTROL	✓
FEP	✓	✓
FEP3	✓
FEV: Morphée	✓
froglogic: Squish	✓
Google: ADB	✓	✓
Göpel: Video Dragon	✓
Hexagon: VTD	✓	✓
HMS: ACT - Restbussimulation	✓
HMS: Legacy Bus Interfaces (VCI V2)	✓
HMS: VCI V4	✓
HORIBA FuelCon: TestWork	✓
IDS: uEye	✓	✓
IPETRONIK: ETHOS	✓	✓
IPG: CarMakerHeadless	✓	✓
IPG: CarMaker|RealTimeMaker	✓	✓
JS Foundation: Appium	✓	✓
Keysight: CDS	✓
Keysight: ESD	✓
KS Engineers: TornadoACI	✓
Lauterbach: TRACE32	✓
MAGNA: BluePiraT	✓
Mathworks: MATLAB & Simulink	✓	✓
Mechanical Simulation Corporation: CarSim	✓
MicroNova: NovaCarts	✓	✓
Modelica Association: FMI	✓	✓
MOTEON: MTB	✓
NI: LabVIEW	✓
NI: VeriStand	✓
NI: VISA	✓
Opal-RT: RT-LAB	✓
PEAK: PCAN	✓
PLS: UDE	✓
QUANCOM: QLIB	✓
RA Consulting: DiagRA D	✓
ROS2	✓	✓
SAE: PassThru	✓
SFC: Selenium	✓	✓
Softing: DTS	✓
Speedgoat: SimulinkRealTimeXIL	✓	✓
Synopsys: Silver	✓
Synopsys: SilverXIL	✓	✓
Synopsys: Virtualizer	✓
Technica: BTS	✓
Technica: CM	✓
The GNU Project: GDB	✓	✓
TOSUN: libTSCAN API	✓
tracetronic: Ethernet	✓	✓
tracetronic: Multimedia	✓	✓
tracetronic: RemoteCommand	✓
tracetronic: RemoteCommandLinux		✓
tracetronic: Serial interface	✓
tracetronic: SocketCAN		✓
tracetronic: SSH MultiConnect	✓	✓
tracetronic: ZeroMQ	✓	✓
TTTech: TTXConnexion	✓
Typhoon HIL: THCC	✓	✓
Vector: CANape	✓
Vector: CANoe / CANalyzer	✓
Vector: DYNA4	✓
Vector: SIL Kit	✓	✓
Vector: XL API	✓
Vehinfo: LABCAR	✓
ViGEM: CCA	✓
VW: ODIS	✓
X2E: Xoraya	✓

Certain tools have the ability to manipulate test variables via stimulation. The tool-specific stimulus capabilities are listed in the Tools with stimulus support section.

2025-12-05