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Capabilities

The full capability matrix

Most engineering suppliers describe what they do in adjectives. This is the actual list: every competence cluster our teams staff, and the technologies we work in.

Software development

Embedded and application software for automotive controllers, from bare-metal drivers to AUTOSAR stacks and Linux-based infotainment.

Software development — capability clusters and available competences
Microcontrollers, processors, chips
  • Multi-core
  • Infineon
  • Qualcomm
  • Renesas
  • ST
  • NXP
  • Texas Instruments
All popular brands on the market.
Software architecture
  • Architecture definition
  • Code generation & verification
  • Rhapsody
  • Enterprise Architect
Average team experience of more than 10 years.
Operating systems
  • AUTOSAR (all layers)
  • Embedded Linux
  • QNX
  • Yocto
  • Integrity
  • RTOS
  • µOS
  • ROS
Languages & tooling
  • Embedded C
  • C++ (embedded and application)
  • C#
  • Python
  • Scripting languages
  • Green Hills MULTI
  • Eclipse
Model-based development
  • MATLAB
  • Simulink
  • TargetLink
Advanced model-based development including production code generation.
Integration & DevOps
  • Continuous integration & deployment
  • DevOps
  • SecOps
  • MLOps
  • AWS toolchain
  • Cloud-based solutions

System engineering & functional safety

System-level architecture, behaviour definition and safety work, tied back to managed requirements.

System engineering & functional safety — capability clusters and available competences
System architecture
  • System architecture definition
  • System behaviour definition
  • System behaviour elicitation
  • Model-based system engineering
Functional safety
  • System functional safety
  • FMEA
  • DFMEA
  • PFMEA
  • ISO 26262
System security
  • System security concepts
  • Hardware–software integration
Requirements management & business analysis
  • Requirements definition & elicitation
  • Requirements management & tooling
  • IBM DOORS
  • JAMA

Cyber security & artificial intelligence

Security engineering for electronic devices and their infrastructure, plus an in-house AI and data practice.

Cyber security & artificial intelligence — capability clusters and available competences
Security
  • Third-party security component integration
  • Security concepts & implementation
  • Hardware security modules (HSM)
  • Security libraries
  • Cryptography
  • Symmetric & asymmetric signature and encryption
Artificial intelligence
  • Data engineering
  • Data science
  • Computer vision
  • Machine learning & deep learning
  • Large language models

Software & system test

Test architecture built for reuse across platform and customer projects, with the benches and simulation to run it.

Software & system test — capability clusters and available competences
Test architecture
  • Software in the loop (SiL)
  • Hardware in the loop (HiL)
  • Hardware open loop
Reusable test cases across SiL and HiL for both platform and customer projects.
Test case development
  • Standard-based testing
  • Script-based approach
  • Model-based approach
  • ASPICE
  • ISO 26262
  • Security testing
  • Conformance testing
  • NCAP coverage
Test environment development
  • Test bench development
  • Test environment & simulation development
  • Test data preparation
Test technology stack
  • C / C++
  • Python
  • Lua
  • Visual Basic
  • Vector CANoe
  • vTESTstudio
  • CANdiva
  • CANdela
Test layers
  • Basic software test
  • Application software test
  • Vehicle test

Hardware design

Automotive-grade electronics from block definition through worst-case analysis to post-SOP field support.

Hardware design — capability clusters and available competences
Hardware design
  • Hardware design definition
  • Critical block definition
A wide variety of devices and technologies.
High-level & detailed design
  • BOM creation
  • Worst-case analysis
  • HSI documentation
  • Support for EMC and thermal optimisation
Post-design support
  • Plant industrialisation support
  • Post start-of-production support
  • Analysis of field returns
  • Cost optimisation and change request implementation

Mechanical design

Requirements-driven mechanical architecture, detailed 3D and 2D design, simulation and production support.

Mechanical design — capability clusters and available competences
Design & architecture
  • Requirements-based architecture
  • 3D modelling
  • BOM
  • DFMEA
  • Hardware–mechanical interface definition
Detailed design
  • Detailed 3D design
  • Detailed 2D design (drawings)
Design validation
  • FEA
  • Structural analysis
  • Thermal analysis
  • Head impact
  • Misuse test
  • Prototype testing
  • Manufacturing interface validation
SOP & post-SOP support
  • Measurement analysis
  • Statistical analysis
  • BOM management
  • Supplier process capability analysis
  • Revision management
CAD / CAE stack
  • CATIA
  • CREO
  • SOLIDWORKS
  • Autodesk Inventor
  • Mathcad
  • ANSYS
  • FloTHERM XT

Project steering

Full-cycle steering of product programmes, in both classic and scaled-agile setups, with delivery responsibility.

Project steering — capability clusters and available competences
Project steering — full product cycle
  • Project management
  • Programme management
  • Waterfall
  • Agile (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
Technical project steering
  • Technical project management
  • System project management
  • Software project management
  • V&V project management
  • Quality management
Full responsibility for managed delivery.
Agile project steering
  • SAFe release train engineering
  • SAFe project management
  • Product owner
  • Scrum master
  • Agile coach
Full responsibility for managed delivery.

Quality management

Process control and improvement against the standards automotive customers audit against.

Quality management — capability clusters and available competences
Quality engineering
  • ISO 9001:2015
  • IATF 16949
  • ISO 33001 (ASPICE)
  • ISO 26262
Process control, checks, audit preparation and process improvement.
Process, methods and tools
  • Consultancy
  • Project process setup
  • Process improvement

Tooling

Technologies we work with

The toolchains, platforms and standards our engineers use daily.

Languages, platforms & operating systems

  • Embedded C
  • C++
  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • AUTOSAR
  • Linux
  • FreeRTOS
  • Green Hills Software
  • Android

Build, integration & cloud

  • CMake
  • Conan
  • Jenkins
  • Docker
  • JFrog
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Grafana
  • Kibana
  • Apache Kafka

Requirements, quality & test tooling

  • IBM DOORS
  • IBM DOORS Next Generation
  • IBM Rational Jazz
  • IBM Rational Team Concert
  • Jira
  • Bitbucket
  • Axivion
  • FOSSID
  • Vector
  • SAFe®

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