Safe Automotive Software. Total Compliance.

Traceability is a must for automotive developers. It ensures that your code and overall product are the highest quality.

Compliance standards, such as ISO 26262, often require traceability to prove that the product you’ve developed met requirements. Helix ALM and Helix Core make it easy to establish traceability for compliance.

With Helix ALM, you’ll be able to:

• Link requirements, tests, bugs, and source code.
• Generate a trace matrix, proving requirements are fulfilled.
• Do a risk analysis – and mitigate risk before you ship.
• Analyze the impact of requirements change.

Helix Core offers:

• Complete change history of all digital assets — from source code to binary files.
• Per-file access logs for auditing.
• Chain-of-custody for each file.
• Visualization tools to see change flow and side-by-side file comparisons.

Embedded software development accounts for a large proportion of the development costs of a new vehicle. And, this is likely to surge as vehicles are equipped with self-driving capabilities.

Vehicles today have millions of lines of code that control key functions, including braking, engine management, and central locking.

And, using Helix QAC or Klocwork improves code quality.

With embedded software developed independent of the hardware it will eventually run on, automotive product designers and developers face unique challenges.

Managing this dual track development of complex systems requires the flexibility and visibility that only a fully integrated tool can offer. 

Helix ALM equips modern development teams with a centralized application where they can manage requirements, test cases, issues, and other development artifacts from requirements through testing.

Automotive electronics and software developers rely on computer-aided design software and simulations. The digital assets these programs create need to be versioned and securely managed too.

Helix Core makes it easy to manage all digital assets in one place — from source code to design files — for full traceability. Helix Core tracks every change ever made.  

Helix Core also integrates with popular EDA and IP management tools, so teams use the tools they prefer, without sacrificing security or traceability on files.

Perforce tools adapt to your preferred development methodology. You'll have the tools you need to facilitate compliance verification and speed up development.

With Helix ALM, you can automate:

• Functional, stress, and load testing.
• ASIL calculation and tracking.
• Traceability matrices and risk reports.

With Helix Core, you can automate:

• Processes and exchanging data between Helix Core and other applications via custom built integrations.
• Integrating work from multiple contributors for continuous integration and build.

With Perforce development tools, you'll keep automotive development secure.

Use Helix QAC or Klocwork to:

• Eliminate security vulnerabilities in code.
• Comply with secure coding standards.

Use Helix ALM to:

• Require e-signatures to track the creation, modification, or deletion of every development artifact.
• Mitigate your risk exposure with automatic notifications and escalations, automatic audit logging, and electronic signatures.

Use Helix Core to:

• Control user access down to the repository, branch, directory, or even individual file.
• Implement custom IP authentication protocols, including two-way authentication, external trigger support, and direct integration with LDAP/Active Directory.
• Secure file transfer among replica servers.

Helix Core scales with you — without sacrificing speed, accuracy, or control.

With Helix Core, you can:

• Support thousands of users and millions of daily transactions.
• Perform large operations in seconds, without locking the shared database.
• Increase remote teams’ productivity with advanced replication technology.
• Accelerate CI/CD with lightning-fast commits and concurrent builds.