TVS and Embitel Collaboration

Software testing and hardware verification provider TVS opens office in India and takes part in a UK trade mission to the country.

UK company TVS, a supplier of software testing and hardware verification solutions, has opened an office in Bangalore, India. The office, which is a joint business venture with local company Embitel, aims to bring chip verification and validation services to the Indian market, but also offers TVS’s UK and European customers a safe route to off-shore development in chip design and verification.

TVS specialises in providing software testing and hardware verification solutions to customers in the software and electronics industry either by providing highly-qualified and experienced verification engineers for an in-house project, or by organising off-shore chip verification services through a blended delivery model.

“A number of companies recognise the benefits that off-shore development brings - mainly access to large numbers of highly educated, professional engineers - but find it difficult to find the right partners and then execute on their projects,” says Mike Bartley, CEO of TVS. “Managing off-shore development can be a challenging process, but at TVS we have many years experience of handling such projects for our clients. Now with our new Indian office we are validating our long-standing relationship with the country and our confidence in the skills and expertise of its engineers. Our blended delivery model provides the local support to companies in Europe along with access to the talent pool in India.”

The company is already executing projects in Bangalore and Embitel has a good reputation in bringing embedded software development services to that market.  

“This joint venture will benefit the customers of both companies,” said Sharad Bairathi, managing partner at Embitel. “Our joint partnership provides a fuller range of expertise and gives us the ability to take on full product testing through use of hardware and software expertise as well as complete product development.”

TVS recently identified several major opportunities in the European market and is now recruiting into its Indian office to service those opportunities.

For more information, please contact:

Mike Bartley, CEO, Test and Verification Solutions (TVS)

Tel: +44 (0)7796 307958; mike@tandvsolns.co.uk

About TVS: TVS (Bristol, UK) delivers an independent testing service that not only reduces costs and time-to-market, but also improves product quality. TVS combines skills and experience in software testing, hardware verification and outsourcing to provide customers with an efficient, well-managed, quality assurance service. The company provides both consultancy and execution services using experienced engineering resources in several locations around the world. TVS customers include ARM, Panasonic, Dialog, DisplayLink, Icera, ClearSpeed, XMOS and Gnodal. Its technology partners include Cadence and Mentor Graphics.

www.tandvsolns.co.uk

About Embitel: Embitel has extensive experience in full lifecycle of embedded development and testing of real time complex solutions for global customers. Its technology partners include Texas Instruments, ARM, Samtec, CMD, Comlet, escrypt and Microchip. Embitel is also rated among TOP 21 innovators in India by NASSCOM.

www.embitel.com

CAN Protocol Stack

CAN-CAN Gateway in a MPC565 PowerPC Microcontroller Based System

Requirement

Design and development of CAN-CAN gateway in a MPC565 PowerPC microcontroller based system.

 
System Overview

In an in-vehicle network, a number of control units are interconnected using CAN. The increasing numbers of electronic control units in modern vehicles are leading to excessive bus loading in the system. This problem can be solved by subdividing a vehicle electronic system into multiple CAN networks. A CAN-CAN gateway is used to interconnect these CAN networks.

Implementation

• Complete software solution for CAN, including drivers and error handling
• The CAN messages and signals received on one network are sent onto the other CAN network while observing filtering and conversion rules
• Support of 11 bit and 29 bit identifiers
• Used CAPL to automate the test cases
• Automated test cases - Reusable and repeatable testing on a click of button

Testing and Validation

• Standard QA practices were followed to ensure quality of deliverables
• Standard Testing practices including Unit testing, Function testing, System testing etc
• Load testing on the CAN bus

Tools

• PowerPC controller based ECU
• Trace32 debugger
• Windows XP operating system with CANAlyser
• PCMCIA cards- CANCardX and CANCardXL