What we haveThe Journey – from idea to solution
It seems like every day more and more software teams are developing software in a model-based way, using Simulink models and auto-generated c-code… and Ford is no different. Many low-level math and interpolation routines have been developed by the central software team as libraries that can be used by different production teams. In order to fulfill specific requirements on the code side, the c-code for these routines is hand-coded and the Code Replacement Library (CRL) can be used in model-based development to integrate the handwritten code files during the code generation process.
The problem with this process: even for simple algorithms, it’s likely that the behavior on the model and code level aren’t 100% match. This leads to errors down the line that can be a nightmare to analyze.
This journey takes us from the initial objective to a solid and automated test workflow. A journey is rarely straightforward from start to finish. But at the end of the day, the detours, hurdles, and discarded approaches find us appreciating the maturity and simplicity of the final result even more.
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