As autonomous/assisted driving and connected car are becoming a reality, the cost and performance benefits—along with soaring future bandwidth requirements—make Ethernet too attractive for auto manufacturers to ignore.

The arrival of new systems and protocols requires new testing approaches. Today's auto manufacturers are facing new challenges brought by technological progress. As a member of the OPEN Alliance SIG, Spirent is the world's leading supplier of testing, assurance, analysis and security solutions. Polelink, as Spirent’s partner, will provide customers with a complete Automotive Ethernet conformance test solution.

Spirent provides the TTworkbench, an integrated test development and execution environment with complete features for any type of automation test project. In combination with Spirent C50 equipment, TTworkbench can provide a variety of test functions including DUT monitoring and ECU simulation, supporting all international standard test cases, including the OPEN Alliance TC8 test suite.

Test Tools

TTworkbench——The­­­­­­­ Reliable Test Automation Platform

TTworkbench is the full-featured integrated test development and execution environment (IDE) for any kind of test automation project. This powerful, user-friendly tool allows you to test software products and services regardless of technology, operating system, or implementation domain.

Benefits

• All-in-one development concept

• Fast and easy test definition in textual and/or graphical format

• Full supported test automation

• Technology independent test system design in TTCN-3

• Constantly supporting the latest edition of TTCN-3

• Testing in early design stages

• High reusability and easy execution of predefined tests

• Fast integration of test systems

• Reliable test suites through fast and efficient tracking of bugs

• Pre-installed TTplugins TCP and UDP (free of charge)

• Extensible by a variety of further TTplugins

• Support for all TTCN-3 extension:

   -Full support: Advanced parameterization, behaviour types and extended TRI

   -Partial support: TTCN-3 performance and real-time testing, interfaces with continuous signals

Standard Conformance Test Suite Packs

OPEN Alliance SIG Conformance Test Suite Pack

The OPEN Alliance SIG Conformance Test Suite Pack consists of different protocol conformance test suites for Automotive Ethernet according to the OPEN Alliance SIG test specification running on Spirent C1 and C50 devices.

Included Test Suites

• TTsuite-OPEN-ARP

• TTsuite-OPEN-DHCP-Client

• TTsuite-OPEN-ICMPv4

• TTsuite-OPEN-IPv4

• TTsuite-OPEN-IPv4-Autoconf

• TTsuite-OPEN-UDP

• TTsuite-OPEN-TCP

• TTsuite-OPEN-SOME/IP

Supported Ethernet Media Types

• 100BASE-T1, 1000BASE-T1 (BroadR-Reach)

• 10/100/1000BASE-T

AUTOSAR Conformance Test Suite Pack

The AUTOSAR Conformance Test Suite Pack consists of different protocol conformance test suites for Automotive Ethernet according to the AUTOSAR test specifi cation running on Spirent C1 and C50 devices.

Included Test Suites

• TTsuite-AUTOSAR-IPv4

• TTsuite-AUTOSAR-UDP

• TTsuite-AUTOSAR-TCP

Supported Ethernet Media Types

• 100BASE-T1, 1000BASE-T1 (BroadR-Reach)

• 10/100/1000BASE-T

Automotive AVB Conformance Test Suite Pack

The Automotive AVB Conformance Test Suite Pack is an Avnu Alliance accredited test solution. It consists of different protocol conformance test suites for the Avnu Automotive AVB Profile running on Spirent C1 and C50 devices.

Included Test Suites

• TTsuite-AVB-AS

• TTsuite-AVB-FQTSS

• TTsuite-AVB-1722

• TTsuite-AVB-Startup

• TTsuite-AVB-Diagnostic

• TTsuite-AVB-Exceptions

Supported Ethernet Media Types

• 100BASE-T1, 1000BASE-T1 (BroadR-Reach)

Test Systems

Spirent C1

Complete Layer 2-7 router, switch, application and security test solutions in a portable form factor with support for line-rate 100BASE-T1, 1000BASE-T1, NBASE-T (100M/1/2.5/5/10G), and 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet test ports.

Spirent C50

Complete Layer 2-7 router, switch, application and security test solutions in a 3U form factor with support for line-rate 100BASE-T1, 1000BASE-T1, NBASE-T (100M/1/2.5/5/10G), 1G and 10G Ethernet test ports.