Railway Systems Engineering

Accelerated Development and Efficient Testing

Railway software, devices, and systems connect people. They need to function with maximum reliability, both in the vehicle and on the tracks. Standards like CENELEC EN 50716 (which replaces EN 50128 and EN 50657), the seamless integration of digital solutions into existing systems, as well as the necessity for effective collaboration among network operators, regulatory authorities, and manufacturers are just a few challenges in software development for railway applications.

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Vector Virtual Railway Engineering Day
The 2nd Vector Virtual Railway Engineering Day will take place on October 6th. In 4 lectures and tool demonstrations you will learn more about efficient system testing of railway vehicles and signalling components. You can look forward to presentations by DB InfraGO, Pilz, and our Vector experts.
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Simplifying Railway Projects by Accelerated Development and Efficient Testing

With Vector solutions, you can simplify the development of a wide spectrum of complex cyber-physical systems, spanning from embedded software to intricate networks and distributed systems.

Our development tools empower engineers and quality assurance teams alike, streamlining their testing processes, catching defects early, and ensuring consistent results across different test runs.

Whether it’s unit testing, integration testing, or end-to-end testing, having robust and automated tools in place significantly enhances the software development lifecycle. There are many ways in which your railway project can benefit from our solutions:

Application Areas

Extensive Toolchain for All Development and Testing Phases

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Vector offers a lot of products for railway systems engineering - here with a focus on testing

CANoe for Railway Systems and Networks

CANoe is our comprehensive software tool for development, test and analysis of individual devices and entire systems of connected devices. It supports network designers, development and test engineers throughout the entire development process – from planning to system-level test. CANoe represents a state-of-the-art test environment with support for single microcontroller tests, module tests, integration tests, conformance tests, regression tests, and testing of prototypes.

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Static Code Analysis for C and C++

PC-lint Plus is a static analysis tool that finds defects in software by analyzing C and C++ source code. Like a compiler, PC-lint Plus parses your source code files, performs semantic analysis, and builds an abstract syntax tree to represent your program.

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Squore and Software Project Quality

With Squore we offer an innovative decision-making dashboard. It enables quality management of software development by improving project performance, driving software quality, and ensuring process and standard compliance. All along the project lifecycle, the variant Squore/Software Analytics automatically collects and aggregates with its own results the measures from the various tools already in use in your environment, in order to provide an overall and historical insight on software products and processes.

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I/O Hardware for Testing Embedded Systems

Tests of embedded systems often require complex and expensive test solutions, which is why they are only used in the later phases of the development process. With the VIO System, I/O testing can be performed much earlier. Its compact design makes it ideal for use on the laboratory bench, enabling continuous testing and simulation at evaluation board level even in the earliest stages of development. Whether sensors, actuators or complete ECUs need to be tested during the HW/SW development phase, the VIO System covers all possibilities.

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Scalable and Modular Systems for Efficient HIL Testing

To test devices thoroughly, it is not only necessary to connect the communication networks to the test system, it is also necessary to connect the I/O interfaces. This task is handled by the Vector VT System. It simplifies the setup of test benches and HIL test systems immensely, because it integrates all circuit components needed to connect an I/O channel in one module.

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VectorCAST and Embedded Railroad Applications

Dynamic software testing is an essential part of ensuring the functional safety of software in railroad applications and is required by the CENELEC standard EN 50716 (which replaces EN 50128 and EN 50657). VectorCAST is the solution for testing embedded applications in the railroad industry and supports the capture and reporting of structural code coverage at all levels required by EN 50716. Vector offers a standardized tool qualification package that proves the accuracy of VectorCAST output in embedded development environments.

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Comfortable Design of Automated Test Sequences for Distributed Systems

vTESTstudio is a powerful development environment for creating automated device tests. In order to increase the efficiency in terms of test design and to simplify the reusability it provides either programming-based, table-based, and graphical test notations and test development methods. vTESTstudio can be employed in all product development phases: from model testing right through to system validation. Thanks to the use of open interfaces, vTESTstudio can be simply incorporated into existing tool chains.

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Testing Driver Assistance Systems for Rail and Tram With DYNA4

Rail vehicles and trams may be equipped with a wide range of driver assistance systems. The functions require a comprehensive test, which can be additionally covered by simulation. DYNA4 can be used for virtual test drives throughout the entire development process, from control function design to verification and validation. DYNA4 is an open simulation environment for the virtual test-driving and offers a wide range of options for testing rail vehicles and their environment perception.

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Agile and Holistic Systems Engineering With PREEvision

Create and manage digital models of complex systems with a comprehensive set of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and full support for the RFLP approach (Description of Requirements, Functions, Logical, Physical in the context of System Design).

Learn about a complete SE solution with built-in traceability from requirements through systems to software and test. See how you can bring your teams together with well-defined development pipelines.

  • One tool for all SE processes
  • Continuous traceability
  • Development pipelines for agile approaches
  • Rich customization capabilities

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Set up CANoe for Software-in-the-Loop Tests

The communication between CANoe and the software under test (SUT) during software testing is realized through the SIL Adapter. This SIL Adapter consists of auto-generated source files and libraries based on a description of the sensor, actuator, network and/or software interfaces of the SUT. Both Python and C/C++ SIL Adapters can be generated for this purpose. These software components can then be added to the SUT project for instrumentation. The SIL Adapter uses the SIL Kit, an open-source software library by Vector, as middleware for data transport from and to CANoe.

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Sustainable Improvement of Efficiency and Quality

Railway operators and, therefore, the manufacturers and suppliers are facing extensive competition and cost pressure due to the liberalization of the railways. Globally distributed development under severe requirements on quality, demands for optimized engineering and homologation processes. Vector Consulting Services provides you with tangible solutions and supports you in the lean yet effective implementation of IRIS and CENELEC as well as in process improvements according to CMMI and agile methods for safety critical systems.

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Now Available: Railway Signalling Add-On for CANoe

Automate the testing of your railway signaling components, such as interlocking systems and object controllers. The Add-On provides support for EULYNX and NeuPro systems to our test tool CANoe. Notable features include:

  • Support for the protocols SCI (PDI and BTP), RaSTA and OPC UA.
  • Create and run test cases to verify requirements on all protocol levels
  • Create new simulations at application level, or utilize existing simulators.
  • Delay, drop, and manipulate messages with fault injection capabilities.
  • Verify the security of your system with fuzz testing capabilities.
  • Track your progress by linking test cases to requirements in ALM tools.

Check out our success stories with DB InfraGO and Pintsch – two examples how CANoe simplifies development and testing of railway signalling systems.

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