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SAE Looking for Experts

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

SAE International is looking for experts in a couple of areas:

FlexRay. J2813—”FlexRay for Vehicle Applicatons” Task Force is looking for experts to help draft a document that will define the physical layer and portions of the data link layer. It will also address how these are to be tested. Contact Debbie Brooks, brook@sae.org.
Restraint systems. Experts […]

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Interface Controls FlexRay or CAN

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

The Elektrobit EB 5100 Interface includes two FlexRay controllers and up to two CAN channels for test applications. The FlexRay and CAN interface hardware use the PMC card standard, which means that users can use it on different carrier boards including PCI, PXI, VME or also PHS bus based systems.
The card is equipped with a […]

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Test Tool Targets FlexRay Physical Layer

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

LeCroy’s FlexRay physical layer test package that provides eye diagram mask testing and physical layer measurement parameters to help make LeCroy’s WaveRunner Xi an oscilloscope-based solution for FlexRay testing. These new capabilities combine with LeCroy’s existing FlexRay protocol trigger and decode tools to create a single instrument that can conduct advanced triggering, protocol decoding and […]

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New Catalog Lists Industrial Automation and Communication Products

Monday, February 25th, 2008

New industrial Ethernet Managed Switches are just one of many new products featured in the latest catalog from B&B Electronics. Designed for industry, these fully managed Ethernet switches have critical enhancements for factory floor operations - redundant ring topology for recovery in less than 300 ms, alarm outputs for system event notification, and dual power […]

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View FlexRay Activity on Infiniium Scopes

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Agilent Infinium users can now trigger on FlexRay events, deccode FlexRay protocol, and view and analyze FlexRay eye diagrams. Users can select standard data rates of 2.5 Mbps, 5.0 Mbps, and 10 Mbps, and the decoded information shows the frame ID, cycle number and the payload of the FlexRay signal.
In addition to decoding […]

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Tool lets engineers view and log CAN and FlexRay data

Monday, December 17th, 2007

TTTech Automotive’s TTX-Connexion is a universal gateway tool that combines data manipulation, on-line viewing, and logging for FlexRay and CAN networks. The small, portable, autonomous tester allows engineers to test applications running on FlexRay and CAN networks through all work stages, from early prototyping to the start of production.
Efficient tools are required for the development, […]

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CANopen seminars in Atlanta, Houston, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

CAN in Automation (CiA) GmbH has scheduled a CANopen seminar series in North America for 2008. The first four events will take place in Atlanta (February 18, 2008), Houston (February 19, 2008), Salt Lake City (March 10, 2008), and San Francisco (March 11, 2008). Further events will be announced shortly.
The one-day seminars provide an […]

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Agilent, Elektrobit Team to Provide FlexRay Tools

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Agilent will license certain automotive-network products from Elektrobit to create an integrated design and test toolset for software and test engineers. Agilent also introduced a strengthened suite of FlexRay test product offerings.
This partnership now extends Agilent’s FlexRay test offering with FlexRay protocol analysis products. EB and Agilent will share FlexRay technology and software components, […]

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NIST Measures Challenges for Wireless in Factories

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

This is from the August 30, 2007 issue of NIST Tech Beat. It’s not about automotive testing, per se, but may be of interest if you’re setting up a wireless network to gather production test data……….Dan
Factories have much to gain from wireless technology, such as robot control, RFID tag monitoring, and local-area network (LAN) communications. […]

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Center to Develop and Test “Connected Vehicle” Technology

Friday, August 10th, 2007

This is obviously a big story here in my hometown of Ann Arbor. The Ann Arbor News in a fit of hyperbole went so far as to say, “City could become epicenter of automotive communications.”—Dan
The Center for Automotive Research and the Connected Vehicle Trade Association will open a research center in Ann Arbor, MI next […]

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