This development software, widely used by OEMs and ECU suppliers of automotive industries[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] is used to calibrate algorithms in ECUs at runtime.

To evaluate the effects of changes to parameters, development engineers access the relevant process variables with conventional measurement technology at sensors and actuators and read out the data from the ECU.

For high-performance ECU access, data from microcontroller-specific interfaces (for example JTAG, DAP, AURORA) can be converted via external hardware (like Vector's VX1000 system) in XCP on Ethernet.

[2] Options extend the functional features of CANape[8] by enabling access to models at runtime in Simulink, functional bypassing, optical verification of object detection algorithms in developing driver assistance systems (ADAS), and an ASAM MCD3 interface.

Functions and scripts can be used to solve a variety of different tasks from simple calculations, e.g., adding signals, to automation of CANape.