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

The Artop User Group is pleased to announce Geensoft and Intecs as new Contributing Members. The Roadmap section was updated to reflect the plan for the Artop 2.2 release which is scheduled for September 2010. We are pleased to announce that release 2.1 of Artop is now available. Major changes and new features that were introduced with this release are:

• BSW Module Configuration Initializer
  • Support for initializing a BSW module configuration out of a vendor specific module configuration description.
• ECU Configuration Validation Constraints
  • A standard set of predefined ready-to-use validation constraints for the ECU configuration part of the AUTOSAR meta model.
• Support for GMF-based model editors
  • Generic socket for creating graphical editors operating on AUTOSAR models provided by Artop workspace management and exemplary implementations of a graphical component type editors for AUTOSAR 2.1 and 3.x.
• Team Support for Compare & Merge
  • Comparison and merge of AUTOSAR files does now not only work between two local AUTOSAR files in the workspace but also between local and remote AUTOSAR files stored on an SVN repository.

As of version 2.1 Artop supports the AUTOSAR releases 2.0, 2.1, 3.1 and 4.0.

The new release 2.1 Artop SDK and Technology Demonstrator can be downloaded by registered users.

An updated roadmap with details on the next upcoming Artop release 2.2 will be provided soon. We are pleased to announce that release 2.0 of Artop is now available. Artop 2.0 for the first time includes support for AUTOSAR 4.0 just shortly after AUTOSAR 4.0 was released itself. Major changes and new features that were introduced with this release are:

• Full AUTOSAR 4.0 Meta Model Implementation
• Generic Meta Model API
  • The generic API is one common API that allows manipulating models conforming to different AUTOSAR releases
  • The API supports commonly used and similar subsets of the meta model
• Model Compare & Merge
  • Artop now supports comparing and merging of AUTOSAR models
  • This allows to easily track and reconcile changes between different versions of AUTOSAR model elements and files

As of version 2.0 Artop now supports the AUTOSAR releases 2.0, 2.1, 3.1 and 4.0.

The new release 2.0 Artop SDK and Technology Demonstrator can be downloaded by registered users.

Also just in time with the Artop 2.0 release the Artop roadmap has been updated with the dates for further Artop releases in 2010 and with details for the next upcoming Artop release 2.1 which is scheduled for April 2010. 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.