Automotive Testing and Validation

Integration Testing

Why Integration Testing

Integration testing is a part of the testing process that checks how software or hardware modules coexist and interface with each other to ensure that the system works properly as a whole.

Our team will choose the best approach depending on the type of your project, create and execute a test suite to ensure that every component works well with the rest of your system, and recommend problem fixes.

System Testing and Validation

Why System Testing and Validation

System testing checks the system as a whole to ensure that all functional and system requirements are met. System validation checks if the system does exactly what it was designed to do in a safe, secure, and reliable manner.

We do system testing and validation to ensure the quality of your end product. If you want your system tested in a real-life environment, our team will prepare and execute all field tests.

Parking Sensor Field Trial Testing

HIL Testing

Why HIL Testing

HIL (hardware-in-the-loop) is an embedded system testing technique where the controller is connected to a simulation representing the real-life system (plant) where the controller will be placed. Plant complexity is taken into account through a mathematical representation of all dynamic parameters, also known as the plant simulation.

HIL Benefits:

NHIL — NOVELIC IP for HIL Systems

We have developed a highly reconfigurable 200 kVA capable power HIL system for component and system integration testing. This environment allows for scalable power source and power load emulation and provides real-time testing and monitoring, data storage, and data analysis via NOVELIC API or dedicated software. The power HIL platform gives full control over DUT test conditions and state observability.

• Flexible analog frontend: voltages, currents, temperatures, phase, frequency, torque, speed, etc.
• High control loop update rates and on-chip raw data processing via a state-of-the-art embedded platform
• Galvanically isolated digital power amplifiers
• Dedicated 100 Mbps or 1 Gbps Ethernet or an SFP optical link with up to 12 Gbps for data logging
• High-fidelity embedded hardware (5 ns PWM resolution, test sequence update rate down to 1 ms, sampling/control signal update rate with near-maximum bandwidth of the data link used)

Conformance Testing

Conformance (compliance) testing is performed to verify if a software or hardware product meets all required technical standards and regulations. This is a crucial step in the automotive industry where safety is paramount. We provide conformance testing for leading automotive industry standards, with a focus on ECU testing and validation, including:

Successful Testing and Validation
Project Example

Our team is in charge of control system testing for a reputable machine manufacturer OEM. The project has been going on for over 4 years.

NOVELIC is responsible for all aspects of software and hardware testing. The toolset for this project includes Tessy, HighTec PowerPC compiler, and UDE toolchain.