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dSPACE Release 6.3 offers your development environment numerous new functionalities, including ones for the following products:Automotive Simulation Models 2.0
New models for developing and testing innovative engine management and driver assistance systems have joined the Automotive Simulation Models (ASM) 2.0.
The ASM Diesel Engine InCylinder Simulation Package and the ASM Gasoline Engine InCylinder Simulation Package provide thermodynamic simulations of combustion engines for the crank-angle-based simulation of in-cylinder pressure or variable valve gears.
The ASM Diesel Exhaust Library is a supplementary package for the engine models, containing simulation models for exhaust gas aftertreatment such as a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC), diesel particulate filter (DPF) and selective catalytic reduction (SCR).
In the field of vehicle dynamics, ASM Traffic provides a comprehensive development system for defining and simulating surrounding traffic with up to 15 vehicles. ASM Traffic is suitable for developing and testing Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and pre-crash systems.
AutomationDesk 2.2
AutomationDesk 2.2, the new version of dSPACE’s test automation software, gives developers of hardware-in-the-loop tests even more extensive support to speed up their test development processes.
The new Debugger lets users check and correct test sequences step by step while they implement them. There is now an evaluation library that makes it easy to edit and analyze data recorded via a HIL system: for example, the data can be compared with reference data. Real-Time Testing 1.5, which comes with AutomationDesk, supports MicroAutoBox as a platform in addition to the DS1005 and DS1006.
CalDesk 2.1
ECUs can be accessed via XCP on FlexRay with Version 2.1 of CalDesk, the universal measurement, calibration and diagnostics software. Another new feature is that measurement data recording can be continued automatically, without user interaction, after the ECU’s voltage supply (contact Kl15) was switched off and then on again during a running measurement (for example, manually during ECU calibration in the vehicle, or automatically via the HIL simulator during ECU tests). CalDesk has numerous functional extensions and many new comfort features, such as rearranging and reconfiguring plotter axes simply by dragging and dropping them.
ControlDesk 3.3
In the latest version of ControlDesk, the test and experiment software, instruments can be activated and deactivated at a click—or even automatically. In addition, input instruments can be set to a special read-only status in which they act as pure display instruments.
The CAN Navigator also provides new options: CAN messages can be generated dynamically, i.e., time-consuming recompilation is not necessary when configuration settings have been changed. Mode signals are also supported. These are special indicator signals that can switch different signal contents within one CAN message.
SystemDesk 2.0
The major innovation in Version 2.0 of SystemDesk is the simulation module. This lets users simulate the software architectures and systems modeled in SystemDesk on a PC, so software functions can be tested and verified at an early stage of the development process. SystemDesk now also supports the AUTOSAR 3.0 format in addition to the AUTOSAR 2.1. format.
TargetLink 2.3.1
Bug fixes and compatibility with The MathWorks Releases R2008a and R2008b, support for the AUTOSAR 3.0 standard, and AUTOSAR model frame generation using client/server communication are provided in Maintenance Version 2.3.1 of dSPACE’s production code generator TargetLink. Target simulation for the Freescale MPC5561 processor in conjunction with the Diab Data, Green Hills and Metrowerks CodeWarrior compilers is now also supported.
Software for Hardware-in-the-Loop Systems
Not only the software tools have new functions, dSPACE HIL systems do too.
The DS2211 HIL I/O Board now supports the SAE J2716 standard (Single Edge Nibble Transmission (SENT)). This standard is increasingly being used for the transmission of sensor signals in the drivetrain area. In the field of communications systems, functions for logging and replaying FlexRay signals and for sending wake-up messages have been added to the FlexRay Configuration Package.