The Vector SDV (Software Defined Vehicle) Symposium Japan takes place on September 18. Among the talks and demos is a setup that uses VLAB together with Vector CANape to demonstrate application testing and calibration using the ASAM XCP protocol.
The setup looks like this:
The application under testing is running as part of a full AUTOSAR (Classic) image on a Renesas RH850U2A-based virtual ECU (Electronic Control Unit). The same binary would run on a real ECU.
Vector CANape talks XCP to the virtual ECU, just like it would talk to a real board with XCP on Ethernet. The XCP traffic is received by the VLAB XCP server function and forwarded to the application using virtual ECU back-door accesses.
The server receives XCP on Ethernet traffic and turns it into access to application-level buffers, providing a quick and efficient way to communicate with the application over XCP. There is no need for an XCP server in the target software, nor configured networking to the virtual ECU.
