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.

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.

Tools are grouped into categories that describe the type of access they provide. For an overview and further details, see Tool categories.

	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	✓
Beckhoff: TwinCAT	✓
Digiteq: FG4 MultiBox											✓
Digiteq: MGB											✓
dSPACE: AURELION
dSPACE: ControlDesk	✓	✓		✓	✓		✓	✓
dSPACE: ModelDesk													✓
dSPACE: RTMaps
dSPACE: XIL API	✓			✓	✓			✓
EA: UTA 12	✓
EMVA: GenICam											✓
ESI: SimulationX	✓
ETAS: BOA		✓	✓	✓		✓
ETAS: COSYM-SIL	✓
ETAS: INCA		✓	✓
ETAS: LABCAR-PINCONTROL							✓
FEP3	✓
FEV: Morphée	✓
Google: ADB											✓
Göpel: Video Dragon											✓
Hexagon: VTD													✓
Hirain: TestBaseVCI		✓	✓	✓		✓		✓
HMS: ACT - Restbussimulation
HMS: Legacy Bus Interfaces (VCI V2)		✓	✓	✓		✓		✓
HMS: VCI V4		✓	✓	✓		✓		✓
HORIBA FuelCon: TestWork	✓
IDS: uEye											✓
Intrepid Control Systems: neoVI		✓	✓	✓		✓		✓
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-Basic, PCAN-FD		✓	✓	✓		✓		✓
PLS: UDE										✓
Qt: Squish											✓
QUANCOM: QLIB	✓						✓
RA Consulting: DiagRA D						✓
ROS2														✓
SAE: PassThru		✓	✓	✓		✓		✓
SFC: Selenium											✓
Softing: DTS						✓
Speedgoat: SimulinkRealTimeXIL	✓	✓		✓
STAR ELECTRONICS: FL3X
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		✓	✓		✓	✓		✓
ZLG: zlgcan		✓	✓	✓		✓		✓

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 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 Hirain: TestBaseVCI HMS: Legacy Bus Interfaces (VCI V2) HMS: VCI V4	Intrepid Control Systems: neoVI Modelica Association: FMI PEAK: PCAN-Basic, PCAN-FD 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 ZLG: zlgcan

Bus active node 🛈

ETAS: BOA ETAS: INCA Hirain: TestBaseVCI HMS: Legacy Bus Interfaces (VCI V2) HMS: VCI V4 Intrepid Control Systems: neoVI MAGNA: BluePiraT	Modelica Association: FMI PEAK: PCAN-Basic, PCAN-FD SAE: PassThru Technica: BTS Technica: CM TOSUN: libTSCAN API tracetronic: Ethernet	tracetronic: SocketCAN Vector: CANape Vector: CANoe / CANalyzer Vector: SIL Kit Vector: XL API X2E: Xoraya ZLG: zlgcan

Bus manipulation 🛈

ASAM: XIL dSPACE: ControlDesk dSPACE: XIL API ETAS: BOA Hirain: TestBaseVCI HMS: Legacy Bus Interfaces (VCI V2) HMS: VCI V4 Intrepid Control Systems: neoVI MAGNA: BluePiraT Mathworks: MATLAB & Simulink	Modelica Association: FMI Opal-RT: RT-LAB PEAK: PCAN-Basic, PCAN-FD SAE: PassThru Speedgoat: SimulinkRealTimeXIL Synopsys: Silver Synopsys: SilverXIL Technica: BTS Technica: CM TOSUN: libTSCAN API	tracetronic: Ethernet tracetronic: SocketCAN TTTech: TTXConnexion Vector: CANoe / CANalyzer Vector: SIL Kit Vector: XL API Vehinfo: LABCAR ZLG: zlgcan

Service 🛈

dSPACE: ControlDesk dSPACE: XIL API	tracetronic: Ethernet Vector: SIL Kit	Vector: XL API X2E: Xoraya

Diagnostics 🛈

ETAS: BOA Hirain: TestBaseVCI HMS: Legacy Bus Interfaces (VCI V2) HMS: VCI V4 Intrepid Control Systems: neoVI PEAK: PCAN-Basic, PCAN-FD 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 ZLG: zlgcan

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 Hirain: TestBaseVCI HMS: Legacy Bus Interfaces (VCI V2)	HMS: VCI V4 Intrepid Control Systems: neoVI MicroNova: NovaCarts PEAK: PCAN-Basic, PCAN-FD SAE: PassThru	TOSUN: libTSCAN API tracetronic: SocketCAN Vector: XL API X2E: Xoraya ZLG: zlgcan

Function access 🛈

NI: LabVIEW

Debugger 🛈

Lauterbach: TRACE32	PLS: UDE	The GNU Project: GDB

Multimedia access 🛈

Digiteq: FG4 MultiBox Digiteq: MGB EMVA: GenICam Google: ADB	Göpel: Video Dragon IDS: uEye IPG: CarMaker\|RealTimeMaker JS Foundation: Appium	Qt: Squish 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

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.

	Windows	Linux
A&D: iTest	✓	✓
ASAM: ACI	✓
ASAM: iLinkRT	✓	✓
ASAM: XIL	✓	✓
ASAP: STEP	✓
ATI: VISION	✓
AVL: LYNX	✓
AVL: PUMA	✓
Beckhoff: TwinCAT	✓
Digiteq: FG4 MultiBox	✓	✓
Digiteq: MGB	✓	✓
dSPACE: AURELION	✓
dSPACE: ControlDesk	✓
dSPACE: ModelDesk	✓	✓
dSPACE: RTMaps		✓
dSPACE: XIL API	✓	✓
EA: UTA 12	✓
EMVA: GenICam	✓	✓
ESI: SimulationX	✓
ETAS: BOA	✓
ETAS: COSYM-SIL	✓	✓
ETAS: INCA	✓
ETAS: LABCAR-PINCONTROL	✓
FEP3	✓
FEV: Morphée	✓
Google: ADB	✓	✓
Göpel: Video Dragon	✓
Hexagon: VTD	✓	✓
Hirain: TestBaseVCI	✓
HMS: ACT - Restbussimulation	✓
HMS: Legacy Bus Interfaces (VCI V2)	✓
HMS: VCI V4	✓
HORIBA FuelCon: TestWork	✓
IDS: uEye	✓	✓
Intrepid Control Systems: neoVI	✓
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-Basic, PCAN-FD	✓
PLS: UDE	✓
Qt: Squish	✓	✓
QUANCOM: QLIB	✓
RA Consulting: DiagRA D	✓
ROS2	✓	✓
SAE: PassThru	✓
SFC: Selenium	✓	✓
Softing: DTS	✓
Speedgoat: SimulinkRealTimeXIL	✓	✓
STAR ELECTRONICS: FL3X	✓	✓
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	✓
ZLG: zlgcan	✓

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.