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Service-oriented Vehicle Diagnostics (SOVD) provides a standardized API for diagnosing new software-based and traditional mechatronic vehicles.

The use of proven basic technologies opens up a wide range of possibilities for the practical application of diagnostics.

Vector's leading involvement in ASAM and ISO, as well as its active role in shaping the SOVD standard, ensures that the latest expert knowledge is directly incorporated into Vector's products and solutions.

SOVD Solution

The development of vehicles based on SOVD (ASAM SOVD / ISO17978-3) requires a holistic approach and the use of suitable tools.

Vector provides a comprehensive solution for this – from SOVD authoring and the realization in the vehicle to the validation of the SOVD API and its use in the SOVD-based Explorer.

In addition, Vector supports you in your first SOVD projects with training, technical consulting, and a wide range of engineering services, such as a jointly developed proof of concept.

SOVD Tool Chain
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SOVD Tools

SOVD Explorer: Resource-based view. Quick access to all resources of the SOVD API.
SOVD Explorer: Resource-based view. Quick access to all resources of the SOVD API.

SOVD Explorer

Functional highlights:

  • Diagnostics for next-generation SDV vehicles.
  • Precise information in the event of violations of the SOVD standard or deviations from the stored OpenAPI schema – provided by the server or optionally imported into the tool.
  • Intuitive access to all available diagnostics functions, convenient adjustment of parameters, and immediate start of vehicle actions.
  • Clear display of vehicle status through freely definable dashboards and pre-built widgets.
  • Automation of diagnostic tasks using generated sequences.
  • Efficient collaboration: Configurations, projects, and sequences can be shared with the team with a single click.
  • Modern technology: Use SOVD Explorer as a local desktop application or alternatively via any web browser as a website (PC, tablet, etc.).

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SOVD authoring with CANdelaStudio | Diagnostic instance view: Focus on SOVD-relevant data
SOVD authoring with CANdelaStudio | Diagnostic instance view: Focus on SOVD-relevant data

CANdelaStudio

Functional highlights:

  • A tool for describing diagnostics via SOVD, UDS, and mixed applications for a consistent and uniform approach across the entire vehicle.
  • Diagnostic specification for SOVD-based components based on the proven template concept. Definition of specific requirements for the SOVD API in the individual modules.
  • Export of SOVD OpenAPI documentation for native and UDS-based diagnostic descriptions.
  • Generation of Diagnostic Extract data (DEXT) for configuring the vehicle software implementation in conformance with AUTOSAR.

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CANoe.DiVa: Automated testing and validation of the SOVD API
CANoe.DiVa: Automated testing and validation of the SOVD API

CANoe.DiVa

Functional highlights:

  • Automated validation of the SOVD API
  • Verification of the conformity of the implemented API against the offline description in OpenAPI
  • Verification of the SOVD2UDS translation
  • Tests to verify the correct integration of the application software and SOVD

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CANoe.SOVD Evaluation Package

Functional highlights:

  • Powerful runtime environment for automated SOVD testing
  • Comprehensive analysis and reporting tools for SOVD communication and data interpretation
  • Flexible SOVD client API supporting CAPL, Python, and C#/.NET
  • Built-in SOVD security features

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SOVD In-vehicle Realization

SOVD IN-vehicle Tool Chain
Scalable in-vehicle reference architecture for SOVD

A scalable vehicle reference architecture is based on the following embedded software components:

  • SOVD Gateway as a central entry point: handles requests internally to the correct endpoints
  • SOVD Classic Diagnostic Adapter: Central translator between classic UDS-based diagnostics and the web-based SOVD API
  • Diagnostic Manager: Integration of SOVD into AUTOSAR adaptive applications using known and new ara::diag (C++) interfaces
  • SOVD Library for convenient implementation of SOVD functions even without a complete AUTOSAR environment

The software components mentioned are part of the following Vector Embedded Software:

SOVD Retrofit: SOVD Classic Diagnostic Adapter

SOVD Offboard Tool Chain
SOVD Classic Diagnostic Adapter - connection of SOVD tool chains to UDS-based vehicles

With the Vector SOVD Classic Diagnostic Adapter, existing UDS-based vehicles can be easily integrated into modern SOVD tool chains – even outside the vehicle.

Thanks to its flexible usage options (wired or remote), you can connect any existing vehicle, provide the appropriate ODX data, and work directly with the new SOVD tools – without making any changes to the UDS-based vehicle itself.

The adapter forms the ideal bridge between proven UDS vehicle technology and the future-oriented SOVD world.

Quick Start to SOVD

Getting started with this new diagnostic technology can be easily done in three steps: 

SOVD Implementation step 1
Vector SOVD Starter-Kit: Evaluation of SOVD using UDS-based vehicles
  • Get started quickly and easily with a UDS-based vehicle.
  • Connect the SOVD Classic Diagnostic Adapter outside the vehicle to a production vehicle.

Practical application:

Use the Vector SOVD Starter-Kit to evaluate SOVD using UDS-based vehicles.

The Starter-Kit consists of:

  • SOVD Explorer: SOVD-based development tester for direct access to the SOVD API
  • SOVD Classic Diagnostic Adapter
  • Converter to support the generation of runtime files (dtl) based on CDD or ODX files
SOVD Implementation Step2
Moving the SOVD Classic Diagnostic Adapter on board the vehicle
  • Move the SOVD Classic Diagnostic Adapter on board the vehicle to a central HPC     
  • Experience the performance and resource consumption of the vehicle network in practical use 
SOVD Implementaion Step3
Applying the entire SOVD stack to the vehicle
  • Integration of the entire SOVD stack into the vehicle     
  • Adding native SOVD components     
  • Development of in-vehicle applications based on SOVD   
  • Selection of tools for distributed development
Contact us and request the Vector SOVD Starter-Kit

SOVD Engineering Services

Benefit from our in-depth expertise in defining and implementing the SOVD standard. As an active contributor to the SOVD standard and with extensive experience in series vehicle projects, we offer engineering services tailored to your needs.

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Our services at a glance:

  • Technical consulting: We support you in the design, architecture, and integration of SOVD into your vehicle platform – individually and purposefully.
  • Proof of concept: Together with you, we develop prototype implementations to validate feasibility and benefits at an early stage.
  • Versatile engineering services: We offer you both technical consulting and the adaptation or customization of Vector SOVD tools in engineering projects.
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SOVD Training
Get familiar with the latest diagnostic concepts from SOVD. In this training course, you will learn interesting facts about SOVD entities, SOVD server architectures, reading and writing data via the SOVD API, and much more.
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