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Luxoft shows Symtavision’s effective timing design,
analysis and verification are essential to development
of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
As demonstrated at Embedded World in Nuremberg
Photocaption: Effective timing design, analysis and verification is essential to the development of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Braunschweig, Germany – 12th April 2016. Luxoft Holding, Inc (NYSE: LXFT), a leading provider of
software development services and innovative IT solutions to a global client base, demonstrated at the
recent Embedded World event in Nuremberg the expertise of Symtavision, a Luxoft subsidiary, in the
growing area of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) for the automotive industry with software tools
and services for real-time system design and development.
Luxoft recently announced that it has acquired Symtavision, a provider of automotive software tools and
consulting services for scheduling analysis, architecture optimization, and timing verification. This acquisition
expands Luxoft’s embedded software automotive offerings as the company seeks to fulfil its targeted end-toend offering.
“We are excited about the synergy between our two organizations," said Luxoft’s Automotive Managing
Director, Georg Doll. “Symtavision’s customer base and range of solutions are highly complementary to
those of Luxoft. Their tools and services are deployed at some of the leading premium and volume car
manufacturers and Tier-1 suppliers. It is also worth noting that a significant part of their revenue is driven
from licenses, which is in line with Luxoft’s strategy.”
According to Symtavision, an emerging leader for timing design and timing verification for embedded realtime systems, the development of ADAS introduces totally new challenges and significantly higher levels of
design complexity, making the adoption of effective timing design, analysis and verification tools essential in
their design.
“ADAS is a disruptive technology that will fundamentally challenge the way automotive electric/electronic
(E/E) and software systems have been built and integrated in the past,” said Dr. Kai Richter, CTO of
Symtavision. “ADAS significantly adds to the software cross-dependencies in vehicles, which, in order to
execute all of the required new functions, will need additional levels of computing performance and network
communications far exceeding that of established vehicle E/E systems. To make the step-change needed to
turn concepts into reality, the integration of effective timing design, analysis and verification tools into the
overall design process will be crucial.”
With the development of ADAS, comes the introduction of new types of sensors, new object and trajectory
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recognition functions and new virtual reality video projection technology among others. These will also
generate data for the automated driving functions to predict and determine how the vehicle should act in
terms of the primary control functions, such as accelerating, steering, braking etc. All these control functions
must also cope with new safety and reliability requirements. To facilitate this, in-vehicle computing power will
need to be dramatically increased with topologies changing from heavily distributed controllers to fewer,
high-performance computing centers that are connected directly to dozens of sensors and actuators spread
over the vehicle.
“It is a highly sophisticated task to efficiently utilize these platforms,” said Dr. Kai Richter. “Also, they have to
be utilized optimally as the software usually grows faster than the platform developers can imagine. Timing
analysis is the key enabler for this optimization and, to assist in the optimization process, we provide
customers with consultancy services for requirements collection and the development of optimized system
architectures for the highly integrated systems found in the ADAS domain today. They also value our
ongoing commitment to ensuring that our tools are kept fully up-to-date for the requirements and new
technologies being introduced.”
The latest SymTA/S 3.8 release, for example, adds worst-case timing analysis for Ethernet communication in
several flavors including AVB and time-triggered Ethernet, and also covers the ADAS software technology
for both AUTOSAR and non-AUTOSAR operating systems, with timing analysis for partitioned and
hierarchical schedulers (with or without hypervisor). In addition, SymTA/S’ unique end-to-end timing analysis
supports heterogeneous mixes of both event and time-triggered applications and architectures, as well as
statistical simulation and worst-case analysis, and compatibility with the existing OSEK, CAN, LIN, and
FlexRay modules. This makes SymTA/S the only tool for timing design, analysis and verification at this level
of architectural complexity, and along with Symtavision consulting services a must-have for all highintegration projects in the ADAS domain.
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About Luxoft
Luxoft Holding, Inc (NYSE:LXFT) is a leading provider of software development services and innovative IT
solutions to a global client base consisting primarily of large multinational corporations. Luxoft’s software
development services consist of core and mission critical custom software development and support, product
engineering and testing, and technology consulting. Luxoft’s solutions are based on its proprietary products
and platforms that directly impact its clients’ business outcomes and efficiently deliver continuous innovation.
The Company develops its solutions and delivers its services from 27 dedicated delivery centers worldwide.
It has more than10,000 employees across 31 offices in 17 countries in North America, Mexico, Western and
Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, and South Africa. Luxoft is incorporated in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, has
its operating headquarters office in Zug, Switzerland and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. For
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