Sharing software documentation with EHANDBOOK Container-build

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EHANDBOOK Container-Build converts diverse information sources across multiple formats and versions into one standard EHANDBOOK container format. This allows you to seamlessly share software documentation with other OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers. Additionally, EHANDBOOK Container-build integrates easily into your existing documentation generation process.

Your benefits

Optimal overview

Integrating EHANDBOOK containers from various sources delivers a comprehensive view of the system.

Know-how protection

To protect copyright, implementation details are excluded from the source data during conversion.

Expert support

ETAS offers engineering services to integrate Container-build into your custom environment.

Intelligent data preparation, interactive graphical models, and data security

Intelligent data preparation

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Intelligent data preparation

EHANDBOOK Container-Build consolidates information from various sources relevant to ECU software documentation, such as ASCET, MATLAB®/Simulink® models, and descriptive texts. It intelligently cross-links, supplements, and indexes this data, collecting metadata on functions, measurements, and characteristic variables from multiple sources and storing them in a central database. This metadata enables you to map function connections and display detailed information about individual elements directly within the text or in the model.

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Interactive, graphical models

Interactive, graphical models

To handle data from separate development steps in different formats, the EHANDBOOK Container-Build tool includes various converters. It processes image and text content in RTF format, model interface descriptions in XLS format, and ASAM formats FSX, MDX, and CCX, used for XML-based ECU documentation exchange. In particular, the Container-build tool converts function models from ETAS ASCET and MATLAB®/Simulink® as well as C code into interactive graphical models.

Additionally, it automates the generation of screenshots for textual content directly from these models. An integrated click navigation through these screenshots allows relevant passages in the text to be quickly located at a later stage in EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR. The tool can also automatically create graphical functional overviews showing all inputs and outputs as needed.

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Data security

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Data security

To safeguard copyright interests, implementation-specific information is removed from the source data during conversions. This makes EHANDBOOK Container-Build ideal for documenting software developed collaboratively by auto manufacturers and suppliers in joint projects, protecting each party’s proprietary code.

EHANDBOOK containers include no native models from software development tools but only graphical representations of models which are neither suitable for code generation nor can be processed with software development tools. As a result, no licenses for products such as ASCET or MATLAB®/Simulink® are required to use EHANDBOOK documentation.

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