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Technical guides
Not a product catalog: these guides set out the technical background needed for selection and design decisions. They are limited to what the standards say; please check product-specific coverage individually.
Differences between similar products and how to choose among them are covered in “Comparisons and selection.”
Technical guides
How to choose an embedded RTOS
Decision criteria: commercial vs. OSS, safety certification, and licensing.
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Debugging and trace basics
From JTAG/SWD to ETM trace — which tool for what.
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UDS / DoIP vehicle diagnostics basics
Basics of diagnostic services, sessions, and flash reprogramming.
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Automotive Ethernet basics
Key points of 100BASE-T1 / 1000BASE-T1 / 10BASE-T1S and TSN.
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CANopen basics
Basics of OD, PDO/SDO, and NMT, and the device development flow.
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SAE J1939 basics
Basics of commercial-vehicle networks, such as PGN/SPN and address claiming.
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LIN basics
Key points of schedules, frames, diagnostics, and LIN 2.x.
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Designing production programming
Design guidelines for takt time, verification, and secure programming.
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What is functional safety?
Basics of ISO 26262 / IEC 61508 and how to use certified components.
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