Expertise in BSP Development Projects for Automotive
Embitel offers Board Support Package (BSP) solutions and reference designs for an array of microcontroller platforms (Freescale, Fujitsu, IAR and more) that are popularly deployed for automotive applications.
In our automotive journey of more than 11 years, we have built a team with in-depth expertise in automotive ECUs (control units), software stacks and embedded hardware; successfully delivering projects for OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers from across the world.
Features of BSP Solutions for Automotive:
- We offer ready-to-deploy BSP reference design solutions for all the popular hardware platforms. Leverage the pre-tested and production grade BSP reference design to reduce product development cost and time-to-market.
- We also provide custom BSP development, tailor-made for your automotive requirements.
- We develop board support package that adds value to your product development efforts. In order to be sure of the quality and integrity of the solution, we strictly adhere to the quality guidelines and MISRA C best practices
- Our Board Support Package is tested rigorously under stress conditions to optimize the overall system performance. This includes optimization of power to reduce the power footprint and optimisation of the boot-time.
Custom Built or Off-the Shelf BSP
We offer ready-to-deploy Platform Software reference design solutions for all the popular hardware platforms. Leverage the pre-tested and production grade BSP reference design to reduce product development cost and time-to-market.
Following is the comprehensive list of MCU platforms for which we provide ready-to-deploy platform software:
| Infineon Microcontroller | Aurix TC3xx series |
| TLE98xx Series | |
| Texas Instrument | TMS320 |
| TMS320F28379d | |
| NXP | MPC57xx |
| S32K14x | |
| KEAZ128 | |
| KEAZ64 | |
| Cypress Semiconductor | Cypress PsoC series |
| Renesas | RH850 |
| V80 | |
| RL78/F13 | |
| RL78/F14 | |
| RL78/F15 | |
| ST Micro | STM32Fxx |
| SPC58xx | |
| Fujitsu | F2MC-16FX |
| Atmel Micro | ATSAMHA1G16A |
| SAMV70 | |
| Microchip | PIC16F series |
| DsPIC30F Series | |
| DsPIC40F Series | |
| Silabs | SLWSTK6102AA |
Meet Our Automotive Leaders
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Senthil is an automotive veteran with 15+ years of experience in various domains and technologies. As a technology leader, Senthil has been at the helm of projects relating to ISO 26262, Model Based Development and more. Being a SAFe -Certified Agile Scrum Master, Senthil has expertise in analysing customer pain-points and giving the right solution. Senthil Nathan Periasami | Head-Automotive BU |
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Suresh is the man with solutions. A pro in multitasking, Suresh is always there for his team and also handles the customers’ problems with alacrity. Under Suresh, the automotive team has delivered some very critical projects with the biggest OEMs and suppliers. His ability to understand the customers’ pain points and come up with solutions is his biggest virtue. Suresh Kumar | Technical Manager(A people’s Manager) |
Board Support Package Factsheet:
This Board Support Package (BSP) factsheet has been designed to provide all the necessary information related to BSP solution package and BSP software integration and support services.
Download this Board Support Package hand-book to also know about:
- BSP software stack business model
- Benefits of one-time licensing fee engagement model
- Value-add features of our read-to-deploy BSP solution
- Automotive related use-cases of Board Support Package
Please refer to Board Support Package FAQ’s for more details.
Software & Hardware Design services for Motor Control Electronic Systems
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Device Driver Development
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Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) Libraries Development
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Porting and Migration Services
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Service and Safety Layer Services
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FAQs: Board Support Package (BSP) Development
Ans. Our Automotive software and hardware teams have partnered with global customers for development of Board Support Package (BSP) based on following hardware platforms:
- Renesas ( RL 78, RH 850)
- Freescale( S12G128, MPC56XX)
- Fujitsu, Texas, Atmel, STMicroelectronics and Cypress semiconductor.
Ans. We partner with our automotive customers under a one-time licensing fee model.
Under this model, our customer gets access to the entire source code of the Board Support Package (BSP). Customer also owns the IP rights of the BSP software.
Such a model delivers an added advantage of reuse of the BSP software modules across multiple projects (multiple platforms and/or for multiple application software).
P.S: When you partner with us for BSP Development, we also share the static files ;viz; cfg.c and cfg.h files. This enables your team to manage the system configuration and re-use of the source code for different projects.
Ans. Our team has in-depth expertise in Embedded C software programming language for BSP development.
Our BSP code is compliant with 2012 MISRA C standard.
Ans. Yes, we ensure seamless portability of your software component module to our existing software architecture with the help of our API ( Application Programming Interfaces) based design.
Here at Embitel, we don’t follow a coding practice that is based on global variables. Rather, we follow an API based and a layered architecture design for BSP development. This ensures that any customization or addition/removal of a software module doesn’t require major changes in the source code of that module.
All the software modules in different layers of the BSP, communicate via APIs’ . This makes it easy for us to port your software components to our software architecture without causing any compatibility issues.
Ans. Yes, we have experienced engineering professionals who can work on both RTOS (Real time Operating Systems) and Non-RTOS based applications by following API based architecture for application programming.
Ans. At Embitel Technologies, we have deployed the following tool-chains for BSP development across different projects:
- Softune IDE: An Integrated Development Environment, Softtune is useful in developing, emulating and debugging an embedded application. The IDE is primarily used for the FR family of Fujitsu Microcontrollers.
- IAR: is an embedded workbench that is primarily used for RENESAS microcontroller. It includes the IAR C/C++ compiler and debugger.
- Greenhills: Multi IDE from Greenhills Software is used for developing BSP for PowerPC. Our automotive team has years of experience in the development and customization of BSP for PowerPC.
- CodeWarrior: CodeWarrior is one of the most widely used IDEs (integrated development environment) for embedded systems. It is used for editing, compiling and debugging software program for a wide range of microcontroller families, primarily the FreeScale.
Ans. Yes. We offer the following documentation and testing services:
- Low Level Design Documentation
- API Documentation for software components
- Module Level Test Plan and Report: In order to ensure the quality of the application being developed, we perform unit testing, functional testing, and integration testing during the product development lifecycle. These tests are executed based on a test case plan and a report is generated once the tests are performed.
- a. Functional Testing & User Acceptance Testing : If we are involved in the development for the application software, we perform the functional testing and user acceptance testing.
- b. Manual testing: Manual testing is done for low level drivers
- c. Unit testing/ Script Testing: The unit testing is done through the Check C framework. A script testing helps in ensuring a Modified condition/Decision coverage.
- d. Integration Testing: If the application being developed has any additional software component, as per the user’s requirement, then an integration testing of the software modules is performed.
Our Expertise in BSP Tools and Technologies
- Softune IDE: Softtune is an Integrated Development Environment to develop programs for FR family of Fujitsu Microcontrollers. This IDE takes care of all the development, emulation and debugging needs.
- CodeWarrior: One of the most widely used tool in embedded systems, CodeWarrior is an integrated development environment that is used to write, compile and debug a program for several microcontroller families, most primarily FreeScale.
- IAR: It is a workbench that is primarily used for RENESAS microcontroller. Their association with each other is quite old and strong.
- Greenhills: Multi IDE from Greenhills Software is essentially used for developing BSP for PowerPC and our automotive team hasin-depth expertise in development and customization of BSP for PowerPC.
Knowledge Bytes
What is the Board Support Package?
- Board Support Package, abbreviated as BSP, is the set of software codes (for low-level drivers and hardware abstraction layer) which are essential to facilitate robust boot process of a microcontroller.
- It does not include any software other than what is necessary for the desired functioning of the peripherals of the System-on-Chip (SoC).
- As BSP is the first software code to be developed for a SoC, it also consists of the bootloader software that will load the applications in the OS memory. The board support package is also designed as per the unique specifications of a particular hardware platform and is not dependent on the OS (Operating System). With respect to the automotive embedded systems, the BSP can have varying number of CAN, PWM and ADC channels.
What Function does a BSP perform in an automotive ECU?
- The primary function of Board Support Package is to facilitate the communication between the hardware (microcontroller) and the application software.To enable this, the BSP has
- Low-level Drivers– Vehicle network drivers (CAN, LIN etc), Analog to digital converters and more.
- Hardware Abstraction Layer– I/O handler, Pulse Width Modulation handler, communication control and more.
- Service and Safety layers– RAM, State Manager, Fault Code Memory and Diagnostics stacks (like UDS, OBD2)
- Scheduler and Flash Bootloader
- In an automotive ECU, the peripherals on the SOC have to interact with the OS or the Scheduler (depending on the use case). These peripherals may include USB, GPS, touchscreen and more.
- Communication between the OS kernel and the hardware component like system Bus and Memory is also taken care by the Board Support Package.
- Modules to check the ECU state, memory management and fault code memory (FCM) are all handled by BSP software.
BSP may support additional functions as well depending on the use cases and applications.
