Test automation platform features a Texas Instruments IDE

Comprised of a suite of tools for the development and debugging of embedded applications, the IDE includes an optimising C/C++ compiler, source code editor, project build environment, debugger and profiler.

The out-of-the-box integration between Vector Software’s VectorCAST and TI’s Code Composer Studio for Hercules MCUs provides developers of embedded software applications with a powerful test automation capability. The platform allows developers to carry out test harness creation, test case generation and management, code coverage analysis, regression testing, and requirements management.

The VectorCAST test automation platform offers a tight integration with TI’s Hercules LaunchPad, a package designed to assist developers working with the Hercules platform of safety MCUs. Hercules RM and TMS570 MCU devices are certified by TÜV SÜD to meet the relevant requirements of IEC 61508 and ISO 26262 functional safety standards to SIL 3 and ASIL D levels of safety integrity. Hercules MCUs are designed with enhanced diagnostic features to help simplify the development of automotive, transportation, medical device, and industrial control functional safety applications.

"Our customers using CCS for safety-related development are required to test their applications to stringent standards. VectorCAST helps to provide that verification and validation capability," said Roy Haley, Marketing Manager, Hercules MCUs, TI. "We believe tools like VectorCAST enhance the value of TI’s CCS integrated development environment by assisting our customers to more quickly develop, test and release applications for TI safety MCUs."