FRC-EP190 – Automotive Communication Platform

The new FRC-EP190 now expands the portfolio with a platform with even higher performance, a wider range of interfaces and removable mass storage. In addition, the FRC-EP190 is easily extendable and customizable, and available for an extremely attractive price.

The new FRC-EP190 now has seven times the processing power of its predecessor resulting, not at least, in much shorter start-up times (less than 4 seconds from power-on, less than 400 ms from standby).

In addition to FlexRay, CAN, LIN and K-Line, analog/digital IOs and RS232 are available. The Ethernet configuration interface is supplemented by a USB interface.

Additional interfaces can be upgraded through internal expansion slots. Thus, besides additional FlexRay and CAN interfaces also EtherCAT, WLAN, Bluetooth and GSM/GPS interfaces can be implemented.

The included SD card slot allows for configuration updates even without an attached PC as well as use as a multi-bus data logger for large amounts of data.

All software solutions available for the FRC-EP150, e.g. residual bus simulation and gateway, are now also available in an extended version for the new FRC-EP190. Existing projects can be easily ported to the new device using the tools included in the scope of delivery.

By providing further interesting software applications, IXXAT plans to extend the application areas of the new device even further. FlexRay/FlexRay gateways for different schedules and EtherCAT slave functionality for the direct connection of the FRC-EP190 to EtherCAT-based test benches are just some of the planned new solutions.

Custom extensions of the hardware and software can be easily and quickly performed by the customer or by IXXAT.