Software Engineering

Software engineering in the field of embedded systems focuses on the design, development, and maintenance of the software that runs on embedded systems, creating a seamless interaction between hardware and software components.

Efficient, reliable, and real-time

Hitex develops efficient, reliable, and real-time software solutions for embedded systems. The integration of hardware and software expertise is crucial for constrained resources, timing requirements, and security concerns.

Challenges of embedded software engineering

Resources and processing power

Embedded software engineering faces challenges like constrained resources, such as limited processing power, memory, and energy, while still delivering high-performance solutions. The software therefor must be highly optimized, reliable, and often operate in real-time, providing accurate and timely responses to external stimuli.

The collaboration with hardware engineers to ensure proper integration and synchronization between the software and the underlying hardware components is crucial.

Hitex also optimizes code and algorithms to achieve maximum efficiency, reducing memory footprint and power consumption.

Realtime requirements

One of the key challenges faced by software engineers in embedded systems is dealing with real-time constraints. Many embedded applications, such as control systems, require precise timing and responsiveness to external events. As our customer we will meet strict timing requirements for you, while ensuring the system's functionality and reliability.

Security and safety of the software

Another critical aspect of software engineering in embedded systems is ensuring the security and safety of the software. As embedded systems become more interconnected and prone to cyber threats, software engineers must consider security measures and implement robust protocols to protect the system from vulnerabilities and potential attacks.

What can Hitex do for you?

To simplify the development of embedded projects, Hitex provides a complete software tool chain from one supplier. This addresses all levels of software layers from the target hardware system and the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) on one side to the graphical user interface (GUI) running on a host PC on the other.

This requires a wide range of capabilities, from low-level hardware driver development and application specific peripheral software development to the development of peripheral communication protocol stacks and understanding of the communication link between the target and the host, usually over USB or Ethernet, as well as the development of the host GUI.

Working closely with our customers we can define the complete software concept and provide a detailed specification for a desired product, including the test specification with Use-Cases and Test-Cases.

Our experience in developing complete embedded systems means we know which development environment (Compiler, Assembler, Debugger etc) and real-time operating system (RTOS) best suit the needs of the project.