Abstract: A device for testing an electronic control unit with a hardware-in-the-loop simulator to simulate at least one sensor signal and equipped with a two-wire cable via which the sensor signal is outputted, and with a switchover device which is connected to the hardware-in-the-loop simulator via the two-wire cable, so that the sensor signal is receivable from the switchover device. The two-wire cable in the switchover device is routed to a two-pole interface of the switchover device to which the electronic control unit can be connected in order to receive the sensor signal, and the switchover device has two voltage sources, each of which is assigned to a wire of the two-wire cable and can be connected to the respective wire via a controllable switch. In this way, it is possible to continue to supply the sensor with electrical energy via two switchable voltage sources during diagnostics, thus avoiding diagnostic errors.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for simulating an electrical circuit via at least one computing unit, the electrical circuit comprising circuit components with switch elements, wherein the switch elements are capable of assuming either a conductive or a blocking switched state, wherein the circuit is described by a mathematical representation MR and the circuit for each total switched state is calculated on the computing unit by numerically solving the mathematical representation MR describing the total switched state.

Abstract: A block diagram includes at least three blocks, including a source block emitting a first composite signal, a passing block receiving the first composite signal and emitting a second composite signal with the same dimensions, and a filter block receiving the second composite signal and discarding at least one component of the second composite signal. A method for generating source code from one or more blocks of the block diagram includes: transforming the block diagram into an intermediate representation, including transforming the at least three blocks; applying at least one optimization to the intermediate representation, including determining whether a memory condition is fulfilled; based on the memory condition being fulfilled, replacing an output variable of the passing block with an auxiliary variable of smaller dimension; and translating the optimized intermediate representation into source code.

Abstract: A recording device for a recording of a serialized image data stream from a sensor device. The recording device comprises a deserializer for deserializing the image data stream. To configure the first deserializer, the recording device comprises a configuration device, which records a configuration data stream transmitted by a receiving device for the purpose of configuring a serializer arranged in the sensor device and derives a configuration of the deserializer of the recording device by an analysis of the recording of the configuration data. In an example, the derivation takes place by an abstraction of the configuration of the serializer into a functionality of the serializer, a derivation of a functionality of the first deserializer from the functionality of the first serializer, and a concretization of the functionality of the first deserializer into a configuration of the first deserializer.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for creating a simulation, having a plurality of simulation components of a physical device. The simulation components each can have at least one communication interface and are executable using simulation agents. The communication interfaces of the simulation components and the simulation agent types based on the simulation inventory are determined. At least one distribution of simulation components are generated that are grouped into execution processes by a communication weighting and/or a performance and/or a resource value based on the system model and the simulation inventory. A simulation application is created in which the execution processes of the distribution are associated with the simulation agent types corresponding to the requirements for the runtime environment of the simulation components that are grouped into the execution processes based on the system model.

Abstract: A system for real-time simulation includes: a real-time computing device configured to execute the real-time simulation; and a host computing device in communication with the real-time computing device. The host computing device is configured to: configure a real-time simulation application for executing the real-time simulation; and send the real-time simulation application to the real-time computing device. The real-time computing device is further configured to, as part of executing the real-time simulation: receive a message corresponding to a data array to a buffer of the real-time computing device; unpack the message in the buffer; determine that an unpack trigger corresponding to the data array has been activated; and in response to determining that the unpack trigger corresponding to the data array has been activated, re-unpack the message in the buffer.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for classifying a predefined traffic situation comprised by a data record of environment data of a motor vehicle, with an application of a directed graph to the first data record. Nodes of the directed graph segment the first data record in each case into at least one segment of a movement behavior of the ego vehicle and/or the fellow vehicle relative to a vehicle environment according to a first condition satisfied in a time interval comprising edges of the directed graph symbolizing links between the respective nodes. The predefined traffic situation is classified if all of the specified segments meet a second condition of the predefined traffic situation. A class is outputted representing the predefined traffic situation and/or a respective start and end time of the second data record comprising a segment representing the predefined traffic situation.

Abstract: A method for carrying out a data recording is provided. Also, a method is provided for generating a data stream from elementary data units stored in a manner distributed over at least two storage media or source files, in particular using a data recording method of this type. Also, an apparatus for data processing, a computer program product, a signal sequence, and a storage medium are provided.

Abstract: A method for generating synthetic image data for imitating raw camera data from a mosaic filter sensor. The mosaic filter sensor comprises an arrangement of sensor pixels and, in addition, a mosaic filter designed as a periodic mosaic of color filters of different colors that are arranged such that each sensor pixel from the arrangement of sensor pixels is covered by exactly one color filter. The method comprises a positioning and spatial orientation of a virtual camera in a three-dimensional virtual environment on a computer system and a simulation of an imaging by camera optics of colored light on sensor pixels of a mosaic filter sensor incorporated in the virtual camera. Via a reading of the pixel brightness measure associated with the respective color value, the pixel brightness of the respective sensor pixel is derived as a function of the color value of the light imaged on the sensor pixel.

Abstract: A method of adding another circuit component with operations executable on an FPGA to an FPGA configuration, wherein the FPGA configuration already has at least one existing circuit component with operations executable on the FPGA, which is locally distributed in the FPGA configuration, includes synthesizing the further circuit component to obtain a further netlist, and distributed arranging of the further netlist taking into account the at least one existing circuit component in the FPGA configuration.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for configuring a virtual test system for testing vehicle functions of a motor vehicle, wherein for each of the plurality of input ports of the artifact under test, an assignment of the output port having the highest confidence value of the at least one other artifact under test depending on a first condition, a compiling of a list of output ports having the highest confidence values depending on a second condition, or a non-assignment of an output port depending on a third condition for configuring a connection of the input ports of the artifact under test to appropriate output ports of the at least one other artifact under test is made. A computer-implemented method is also provided for providing a trained machine learning algorithm for configuring a virtual test system for testing vehicle functions of a motor vehicle.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for determining compatibility of system parameters for a test execution of a virtual test of a device for at least partial autonomous guidance of a motor vehicle, comprising an application of a rule-based algorithm to the at least one first system parameter for determining compatibility of the at least one first system parameter with at least one further system parameter from a group comprising the system to be tested, the test environment, the test system, the test scenario and/or the vehicle type to be tested, wherein the rule-based algorithm determines compatibility on the basis of a hardware and/or software component that executes the virtual test of the device for at least partial autonomous guidance of the motor vehicle and/or provides test data.

Abstract: A test stand for confronting a test piece with a simulated electrical fault. The test stand includes a central fault control unit for orchestrating the simulated electrical fault, and at least one local node configured as a failure insertion unit (FIU), with a switch arrangement for falsifying selected electrical currents in the test stand. The fault control unit is configured to create an abstract fault description, which specifies at least one electrical fault to be applied to an electrical line, and to transmit it to the local node. The local node is configured to derive from the abstract fault description an activation rule for the switch arrangement that is suitable for applying the electrical fault to the electrical line, and to apply the electrical fault to the electrical line by activating the switch arrangement according to the activation rule.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for annotating driving scenario sensor data, including the steps of receiving raw sensor data, the raw sensor data comprising a plurality of successive LIDAR point clouds and/or a plurality of successive camera images, recognizing objects in each image of the camera data and/or each point cloud using one or more neural networks, correlating objects within successive images and/or point clouds, removing false positive results on the basis of plausibility criteria, and exporting the annotated sensor data of the driving scenario.

Abstract: A method for carrying out an optimization of at least one specific signal path of a circuit design to be mapped in an FPGA. The at least one specific signal path in the circuit design to be mapped is defined as a multi-cycle path having an effective clock rate. Provided also is software for generating a circuit design to be mapped in an FPGA, a device for processing data, an input FPGA interface block for software for generating a circuit design to be mapped in an FPGA, and output FPGA interface block for software for generating a circuit design to be mapped in an FPGA, a circuit design to be mapped in an FPGA, and an FPGA having a circuit design mapped therein.

Abstract: A system comprising a sensor simulation computer for calculating model data, an ESI unit for generating raw sensor data and a switching device. The sensor simulation computer has a first DisplayPort connector and a second DisplayPort connector. Two DisplayPort lines are connected to the first DisplayPort connector and four DisplayPort lines are connected to the second DisplayPort connector. The ESI unit has a DisplayPort receiver to which four DisplayPort lines are connected. The switching device is interposed between the first and second DisplayPort connectors and the DisplayPort receiver.

Abstract: A method for performing a SIL simulation running on a host data processing device and a device for data processing for performing a SIL simulation are provided. The device is configured to execute the method. A computer program product, a signal sequence, and a simulation platform are also provided.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for assigning data points from first data to one of several objects, wherein the first data comprises at least three spatial dimensions. Groups of projected data points are formed and assigned to the respective objects, taking into account received information data from two-dimensional bounding polygons and from a bin of the data point by an assignment method such that for overlapping polygons in which projected data points are located within more than one two-dimensional bounding polygon, the groups are formed such that no bin is assigned to more than one of the overlapping polygons at the same time. A device is also provided for data processing to execute the method, and a computer program product, and a computer-readable medium on which the above computer program product is stored.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for ascertaining a three-dimensional bounding volume, preferably a bounding box, for an object displayed on first data, the first data having at least three spatial dimensions, information data of a two-dimensional minimum bounding polygon being received for the object displayed on second data, a projection matrix, which defines a mapping of a three-dimensional data point of the first data onto a two-dimensional data point in the second data being received, and the three-dimensional bounding volume of the object being ascertained with the aid of a mathematical optimization procedure and a target function, the target function comprising fewer than 100,000 terms. The invention also relates to a device for processing data, which comprises computer components for carrying out the above method, as well as a computer program product, comprising commands, which, when the program is executed by a computer, prompt the latter to carry out the above method.

Abstract: A method for real-time simulation of an electric motor includes: modeling, by a computer system, the electrical motor in a graphical model including at least two blocks connected by signals. The graphical model includes at least two matrix operations which produce a multidimensional output signal from at least one multidimensional input signal. The computer system includes an operator computer and a real-time computer connected thereto, wherein the operator computer executes a graphical modeling environment, and the real-time computer has at least one programmable logic device.