The AUTOSAR Tool Platform (Artop) is an implementation of common base functionality for AUTOSAR development tools. Artop, including its source code, is available free of charge to all AUTOSAR members and partners. The Artop development process is transparent and based on a community approach driven by AUTOSAR members and partners. The community that develops Artop is organized as the Artop User Group.

News

Artop 2.0 with added support for AUTOSAR 4.0 will be released on February 19th. The release has been postponed to that date due to delays in the continuation of AUTOSAR memberships. The Artop User Group will continue to support AUTOSAR tool development in AUTOSAR phase III starting 2010. This includes support for existing and also newly developed AUTOSAR releases. The overall organization of the Artop User Group established since 2008 will be carried on. With the help of its members the Artop User Group will continue to deliver regular releases of Artop synchronized with the AUTOSAR schedule.
Together with the release of Artop 2.0 in January 2010 an updated roadmap will be provided. The Artop User Group is pleased to announce OpenSynergy as a new Contributing Member. The Artop User Group is pleased to announce itemis as a new Contributing Member. We are pleased to announce that release 1.2 of Artop is now available. Major changes and new features that were introduced with this release are:

• New milestone of preliminary AUTOSAR 4.0 Meta Model Implementation for development purposes
  • based on the preliminary and not yet finalized AUTOSAR 4.0 specifications in the version as of July 20th 2009
  • available to AUTOSAR Core Partners, Premium Members and Development Members
• Model Indexing
  • Creation of indices for frequently used model data structures to enable efficient handling of large AUTOSAR models
• Improvements based on feedback from production use
  • Artop is incorporated in products which are now used for series development many performance and stability improvements have been made due the feedback from production use
  • For example a realistic AUTOSAR model which is 100 MB big and spread across 10000 files can be loaded in approximately 2 minutes and takes up around 130 MB in memory
• Validation Component Refactoring
  • Refactoring of the existing validation component into a separate sub-project
  • Improvements to functionality and performance

As of version 1.2 Artop supports AUTOSAR Releases 2.0, 2.1, 3.1 and 4.0 in a preliminary form.

The new release 1.2 Artop SDK and Technology Demonstrator can be downloaded by registered users.

Also just in time with the Artop 1.2 release the Artop roadmap has been updated with details for the next upcoming Artop release: 2.0 which is scheduled for December 2009.