Chapter 2. Introduction

2.1. About MATLAB and Simulink
2.2. Included in your OpenECU kit
2.2.1. Hardware
2.2.2. Software
2.3. Licensed Features
2.4. OpenECU requirements
2.4.1. Hardware requirements
2.4.2. Software requirements
2.4.3. Assumed knowledge
2.5. General development process
2.6. Co-operational development with Pi
2.7. Warnings and safety guidelines
2.7.1. Verification of OpenECU by Pi Innovo
2.8. Warning
2.8.1. Personal safety
2.8.2. Disclaimer

Thank you for choosing Pi Innovo's OpenECU platform.

Pi Innovo's OpenECU platform offers a new solution to engine and vehicle control system development. Based on Pi's extensive experience of ECU development, and backed by Pi's unrivalled capabilities in project and customer support, OpenECU helps you get quickly to what you need: working, robust control systems.

By using production ECU hardware as an auto-code platform, you gain all the advantages of auto-coding and rapid prototyping, but with hardware that meets full production environmental and packaging requirements (see Section 1.1, “ECU hardware reference documentation” for environmental and packaging details).

The OpenECU system consists of:

Applications of the OpenECU platform include:

For support contact information, please see the last page of this manual.