Partner Profile: NXP

NXP Designs purpose-built, rigorously tested technologies that enable devices to sense, think, connect and act intelligently to improve people’s daily lives.
NXP provides solutions in Automotive, Communication Infrastructure, Industrial, Mobile, Smart city, smart home and more.
VLAB Works has partnered with NXP to deliver highly valued simulation environments for NXP devices.

VLAB Works™ and NXP®

A VLAB Works virtual platform provides an all-in-software development platform centered around the NXP S32, QorIQ, and MPC SoC families supporting Automotive, Communications, and Industrial applications. The platform supports application development on all aspects of the SoC including application processing domains, real time control units, and complex acceleration units. VLAB Works supports extending these platforms to the full extent of our customer’s systems be they ECU, Zone/Domain Controller, or Communication Gateway, to enable additional development opportunities.

VLAB Virtual Platforms:

S32: ARM v7 and v8
QORIQ: e5500 and e6500
MPC: e200 and e500

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The 80 / 20 rule and virtualization

by Glen Olafsen | March 31, 2022 | Virtual Platforms, VLAB | 0 Comments

How much target hardware does your embedded application software actually use? VLAB VDMs are bringing new thinking to an age old problem.

The VLAB Sitara AM64x V-EVM Available Now

by Glen Olafsen | March 1, 2022 | Texas Instruments, VLAB | 0 Comments

The announcement of a new product would normally come with a title of 'Now Available'. Arguably 'Available Now' is more important, with ongoing global shortages of semiconductors impacting supplies of development and test hardware! The ASTC Virtual EVM for TI Sitara...

Do software engineers build tools for software engineers?

by Ross Dickson | September 27, 2021 | Opinion | 0 Comments

This may seem like a cross between a circular question and a particularly awkward attempt at a Zen kaon. Actually it is intended as a serious question about product design. In many industries that we don’t work in but periodically have to interact with it seems the...

VLAB QORIQ Virtual Platforms – Ready to go

by Glen Olafsen | August 4, 2021 | NXP | 0 Comments

ASTC has a long history of supporting developers using NXP hardware with virtual environments. The partnership with NXP that has delivered resources for MPC and S32 platforms has now delivered another. VLAB QORIQ Virtual Platforms offer three variants of the NXP QORIQ...

Do you need ‘Cycle Accurate’?

by Glen Olafsen | July 21, 2021 | VLAB | 0 Comments

For those scratching your head, possibly because you are new to simulation, here is a quick explanation. In digital simulation there are multiple ways of simulating embedded hardware, each with its pros and cons. Perhaps the simplest explanation, Cycle Accurate...

Finding perspective on the semiconductor shortage

by Ross Dickson | June 7, 2021 | Opinion | 0 Comments

When you read the recent headlines on global chip shortages, does R.E.M. or David Bowie spring to mind? On one hand it could be The End of the World as we Know it. Or maybe it's just another round of Changes. No this is not a test to see when you started listening to...

Unreal Simulation …. Hero or Villain!

by Ross Dickson | May 13, 2021 | VLAB | 0 Comments

Explaining new concepts using the things that we find around us is nothing new. In a previous blog, the connection between changes in sport called for challenging assumptions and trying new types of testing. Today we are going to use another ... Comic Books! Having...

Scripted vs Interactive

by Glen Olafsen | March 31, 2021 | Opinion | 0 Comments

An epic struggle ... or complementary?While the title may suggest an epic struggle, a competition, an either / or proposition, in the field of embedded software debug and test, Scripted and Interactive should be seen as complementary. Like the well worn adage, there...

Challenge your assumptions

by Glen Olafsen | March 24, 2021 | Opinion | 0 Comments

Have you ever noticed that sometimes the source of inspiration or clarity can come from the most unlikely source? Recently I was listening to a talk back sports radio show where one of the hosts was asked the question, “What has been the biggest change to Football in...

A Flock of Geese or a Flock of Gulls

by Glen Olafsen | March 17, 2021 | VLAB | 0 Comments

Have you ever pondered which waterfowl personifies best practices in modern automotive software development? A quick disclaimer before diving into this critical and pressing issue. I haven't intentionally committed code to a repo destined for the shipping product in...