dSPACE has announced the introduction of an even more flexible and powerful solution for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing of electric motors.  Combining the flexible architecture of SCA-LEXIO with its freely programmable FPGA board DS2655, plus a scalable electronic load, users can test electric motor control systems in a more realistic environment by emulating the real motor and generator currents.

dSPACE's new offerings for developing in-vehicle battery management systems (BMS) simplify the development of critical battery management algorithms by enabling precise, fast measurement and control of cell voltages for modern Li-ion batteries. Complex systems like a BMS interact with several vehicle systems such as the powertrain, energy management, vehicle safety, infotainment, etc. These systems therefore cannot be developed in isolation and...

SCALEXIO now has a special new board for HIL tests of electric drive ECUs: the DS2655 FPGA Base Module.

dSPACE MicroAutoBox II, the compact prototyping system, now has a multistage watchdog mechanism that performs run-time monitoring with configurable timeout behavior. When critical states occur, the system responds immediately and in a defined manner. This gives engineers an added layer of safety when experimenting with prototype vehicles in road and fleet tests. In the MicroAutoBox II hardware, the system watchdog is implemented in the FPGA, fun...

dSPACE Automotive Simulation Models (ASM) now support the simulation of virtual test benches for vehicle dynamics analysis. The new ASM Kinematics and Compliance (ASM KnC) provides functions for designing and simulating wheel suspensions on a virtual test bench, thereby opening up a new, innovative application field. Users can now run virtual tests for numerous vehicle variants and driving maneuvers to optimize vehicle suspensions and make them a...

The new Version 3.4 of dSPACE's production code generator TargetLink provides extensive new features for modular software design and supports the latest AUTOSAR versions. Moreover, TargetLink also interfaces with dSPACE's VEOS simulation platform and dSPACE's SYNECT data management software to produce a development environment that is more powerful than ever.

dSPACE has expanded its SCALEXIO hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) system by introducing the DS2690 Digital I/O Board, designed especially for body electronics. The DS2690 provides a high number of digital channels that cover all variants and functions of digital I/O signals.

With its new Ethernet Configuration Package, dSPACE is the first company ever to enable the real-time simulation of service-oriented communication in Ethernet networks of electronic control units (ECUs). These networks play an important role in modern driver assistance systems, new comfort and entertainment functions, and numerous other functionalities.

SYNECT Test Management, dSPACE's new test management software, is a comprehensive solution for managing and controlling the ever-growing volume of tests and test data that is produced by the electronic control unit development process.

In response to the increasing trend towards virtual validation in the development of electronic control units (ECUs), dSPACE has launched its new, PC-based simulation platform VEOS.

The dSPACE Automotive Simulation Models (ASM) can now work together with PreScan, a software program from TASS for high-quality sensor and environment simulation. This tool combination enables developers to optimize the efficiency of intelligent assistance systems at an early stage with highly precise sensor simulation and flexible, reproducible traffic simulation.

Electronic Load Module for Simulating an Electric Motor at Power Level at High Voltages If the HIL tests for an electric drive system have to include the power stages, testing at signal level is not enough. Testing at electrical power level is essential. One way is to operate a real drive motor on a test bench. Another is to simulate the electric motor at the electrical power level. This involves simulating the electrical behavior of a real moto...

The new dSPACE Electronic Load Module emulates motor and generator currents at voltages of up to 60 V for the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation of electric motors. As a result, mechanical test benches are no longer needed to test the ECUs. With a voltage range up to 60 V, the module is also ideal for use with higher in-vehicle voltages of 42 and 48 volts or with numerous electric components running in parallel.

Author(s): Björn Bobe (dSPACE), Sonja Lillwitz (dSPACE GmbH), Markus Plöger (dSPACE GmbH), Frank Puschmann (dSPACE) In demanding and highly dynamic electromobility applications, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) provide an enormous performance boost for real-time simulation. dSPACE is going one step closer to the future by providing completely FPGA-based open simulation models.

Author(s): Holger Ross (dSPACE GmbH). Mild hybrids, full hybrids, E-vehicles, range extenders, fuel cells, hydrogen engines: In the race to create the electric drive concepts of the future, engineers at OEMs and suppliers are keeping their options open and researching a wide range of different technologies to find out which of them are suitable for mass use. And they are relying on universal rapid control prototyping tools to do so. Such tools l...

With its latest update, dSPACE SCALEXIO makes it easy to scale hardware-in-the-loop simulation for large, computationally demanding simulation models and large quantities of input and output channels. Extensive models with numerous I/O channels can now be distributed conveniently across several processor cores to guarantee real-time simulation. SCALEXIO also provides adaptable failure simulation technology that scales with growing numbers of I/O ...

TargetLink 3.3, the new version of dSPACE's production code generator, provides elaborately expanded features for AUTOSAR-compliant development of electronic control units, and supports the latest AUTOSAR standards 4.0 and 3.2. TargetLink 3.3 simplifies modular development with even more powerful incremental code generation and improved data management.

The latest version of dSPACE SystemDesk supports the current AUTOSAR Release 3.2. Together with dSPACE TargetLink and dSPACE Offline Simulator, dSPACE provides a seamless tool-chain for modeling ECU software, generating run-time environment (RTE) and production code, and creating, simulating and testing virtual ECUs.

The new ECU Interface Manager from dSPACE enables control engineers to insert bypass hooks intuitively and quickly, directly into the compiled ECU hex code, for incremental ECU function development. No access to either the source code or the build environment of the ECU software is required. The ECU Interface Manager does what the ECU supplier in the past had to do: integrate the bypass services and the service calls, also known as bypass hooks. ...

Paderborn's technological company dSPACE was granted an award for its exceptional achievement for the development of automotive battery systems. An international jury consisting of members from automotive companies such as Lotus, Toyota Motorsport, Ginetta, Cayman Dynamics and Spyker awarded this year's Hardware Innovation of the Year prize to dSPACE. With dSPACE's products, the high-voltage batteries of electrical vehicles can be simulated with ...