Motar: bridging the gap
from model to target
Developing and upgrading automotive software at an increasingly abstract level is a complex process. It requires specific knowledge that may not be part of your core competences. Moreover, sufficient development capacity is required. And what about the launch excellence your customer demands? Wouldn’t it be great if your ECU firmware is ready as soon as the prototype is finished? Shorten your time-to-market with Motar!
With the Motar-platform, this vision becomes a reality. Once your Simulink® model is ready, you can build and flash your model on a hardware target from within Simulink® with the single click of a button. Fast, error-free and without specialist development skills. Motar bridges the gap from model to target.
What is Motar?
Motar is a plug & play product of ICT Group and enables mechanical engineers to create software without programming skills. We have developed this tool especially for builders of (off-highway) vehicles who work within a Matlab/Simulink environment. Motar can be applied in various markets: Not only automotive Tier-1’s, racing industry and large OEMs, but also the producers of trucks, miniloaders, agricultural vehicles and automated guided vehicles can generate software with the platform.
The Motar-platform consists of a Simulink blockset, a Basic SW (BSW) stack based on AUTOSAR, and optionally, a commercial off-the-shelve HW platform. This enables quick and flexible model-based development with lower costs. By using the Motar-toolbox for Simulink, a scalable solution compliant with AUTOSAR is provided. Motar provides a seamless integration with model-based development tools to enable full integration support at the model level rather than at source code level. This will save you a lot of effort, time and required knowledge/competencies.
Facts
The following MathWorks products are necessary for integration: MATLAB®, Simulink, MATLAB Coder™, Simulink Coder™, and Embedded Coder®. Stateflow and Vehicle-network-toolbox are optional but highly recommended. Motar contains a Simulink Blockset that enables users to generate their model (ECU firmware) completely from Simulink.
- Simulink toolbox
- Software generated directly from graphical model to control module
- Generates the right code automatically and error-free
- No specialist development skills required
- Reduces your time to market
- Plug & play product
- Low-code
Technology Partner InMotion
For the development of their full electric formula racecar, the Fusion, our partner InMotion used the Motar-platform. Motar ECUs are used for the control of every electronic function in this car. ICT and InMotion have been developing these ECUs together in a close partnership. This lead to a record-breaking formula car, which currently holds the laprecords at the Zandvoort, Zolder and Assen tracks. Furthermore, for InMotion’s concept endurance racecar, the Vision, Motar makes sure that a lot of the software developed and tested for the Fusion can be reused.
Partnership with TTTech Auto
ICT Group, the developer of the model-based development tool Motar, is a proud partner of TTTech Auto. TTTech Auto provides solutions for the challenges of future vehicle generations. The company specializes in safe software for automated driving and beyond. Motar allows customers using TTTech Auto’s ECUs to develop software without writing any code. The software instead will be generated from the behavioural descriptions of the functionality (low code). As a result, customers can decrease their development effort and time-to-market of new developments. In addition, Motar allows for the reuse of previously designed functionality in future projects and in other applications or vehicles.
Conmeq shortens its time-to-market with Motar
Mini-loaders are one of the most widely used machines on construction sites, as you can use them in endless ways with dozens of matching attachments. Due to customer demand, many suppliers replaced their diesel engines with electric powertrains in recent years, but that didn’t exactly make mini-loaders better and safer. Conmeq designed a completely new electric mini-loader from scratch. By using the Motar platform developed by ICT, they were able to develop the software for the mini-loader considerably faster.
TNO selects Motar for EcoTwin project
TNO, an independent organization for Applied Scientific Research in the Netherlands, selected Motar to add value to their prestigious EcoTwin project. The EcoTwin project uses a 3-Truck platooning concept, in which three trucks cooperate by using automated driving technology. TNO has selected the ICT Motar solution to support the “EcoTwin” project because it significantly reduced both development time and development costs.
Contact
Koen Peppelman
Business Unit Manager ERD Products