Overview of all updates and patches for all dSPACE Releases.

The keyword search for dSPACE FAQs.

Known Problem Reports for TargetLink and Data Dictionary. Up-to-date information about known problems, possible workarounds, and bugfixes.

Updates and patches for RCP and HIL Software. RCP and HIL Software includes Real-Time Interface (RTI), ConfigurationDesk, MotionDesk, ModelDesk and Automotive Simulation Models.

Version and Compatibility Information for RCP and HIL Software (Real-Time Interface (RTI), ConfigurationDesk, MotionDesk, ModelDesk and Automotive Simulation Models)

The following roadmap reflects dSPACE’s current plans regarding supported MATLAB® Releases and operating systems in the future.

Updates for Firmware Manager and Firmware Archives

Book a 1-day training course to learn the basics of using ControlDesk. Gain experience in handling ControlDesk projects.

This basic training course covers all the steps of code generation for production ECUs with TargetLink.

The main innovations included in dSPACE Release 2016-A are outlined.

Latest Versions of Installation and Licensing Tools

MATLAB Compatibility Information

Updates and patches for ControlDesk Next Generation

TargetLink Version Information and New Features

Frequently Asked Questions about Installation and Licensing.

Compatibility with MATLAB 64-bit Releases

This course covers the advanced steps in ControlDesk Next Generation. It is ideal for acquiring all-around information about ControlDesk’s advanced features, such as ControlDesk Automation or the Bus Navigator.

MicroAutoBox hardware concept, features, I/O variants, and hardware revisions

TargetLink offers a lot of features for advanced users. One of them is the dSPACE Data Dictionary for model-independent data management. In addition, a freely installable blockset allows models to be exchanged even without a TargetLink license.

Updates and patches for TargetLink

Windows 10 Support of dSPACE Products

Supported combinations of evaluation boards, microcontrollers, and compilers for TargetLink processor-in-the-loop (PIL) simulation

The course covers the use of dSPACE platforms as well as a wide variety of tools to access the Failure Insertion Unit, calibration and diagnostic tools and MATLAB®.

MATLAB Compatibility Information

ControlDesk Next Generation Version Information and New Features

With scripts, you can perform your complex workflows in no time, such as creating a project and experiment with your custom settings.

Frequently Asked Questions about Real-Time Interface (RTI).

Information about which dSPACE software versions can be used together

The main innovations included in dSPACE Release 2015-B are outlined.

MATLAB Compatibility Information

Known Problem Reports for all dSPACE Products except TargetLink. Up-to-date information about known problems, possible workarounds, and bugfixes.

The TargetLink Modeling Guidelines help to ensure a seamless development process from function development down to the generation of highly efficient code for electronic control units (ECUs) using dSPACE TargetLink.

TargetLink supports the generation of AUTOSAR-compliant code, and files generated by AUTOSAR authoring tools can be imported into TargetLink.

Frequently Asked Questions about TargetLink.

TargetLink utilities are add-ons to TargetLink to provide support for some additional Simulink blocks as well as to simplify certain steps in the development process.

Version & Compatibility Information RCP&HIL Software Release 2016-A

Support of MATLAB R2014a with dSPACE Release 2014-A

Version information for dSPACE Solutions DVD

Frequently Asked Questions about ControlDesk.

Version and compatibility information for TargetLink 4.1

Version & Compatibility Information RCP&HIL Software Release 2015-B

This training course explains the basics of the AUTOSAR standard on modeling software components and compositions.

Version & Compatibility Information RCP&HIL Software Release 2015-A

Knowledge base for installation and licensing topics

This SYNECT utility pool contains extensions to the SYNECT standard functionality that help you simplify some of the most common workflows.

This training course will equip you with the basic skills you need for successfully embedding applications on dSPACE FPGA hardware.

Over the last few years, the AUTOSAR initiative has successfully established a standard for automotive software architectures. This course introduces you to the main goals and contents of this standard.

Frequently Asked Questions about dSPACE Hardware.

Version and compatibility information for TargetLink 3.5

The TargetLink AUTOSAR Utilities are an add-on to the TargetLink AUTOSAR support to simplify certain steps in the development process.

Updates and patches for AutomationDesk

Guideline with code examples on how to migrate rtplib2 Python scripts to XIL API .NET MAPort using PythonNET

You will learn about the concept and the structure of the ASM Vehicle Dynamics model. The course will also deal with the options for parameterizing the vehicle, as well as the road generator and maneuver editor.

This utility for ContolDesk helps you repair broken layout connections after adding a new variable description file to a CAN or LIN Bus Monitoring device.

Version and compatibility information for TargetLink 4.0

SystemDesk includes a feature for building so-called virtual ECUs from an AUTOSAR system.

Processing test data with SYNECT Test Management, including all the steps from handling requirements, test cases and execution plans to executing tests and evaluating the test results

Updates and Patches for Real-Time Testing (RTT)

Updates and patches for dSPACE Device Drivers

MATLAB Compatibility Information

Compatibility Information MATLAB Blocksets & Toolboxes

The RapidPro training gives you a step-by-step introduction to using the RapidPro software and hardware together with a dSPACE prototyping system.

Updates for User Documentation, such as Language Packs. Currently, Language Packs for Japanese are available.

How to migrate MLIB/MTRACE scripts to HIL API .NET using the MATLAB Interface to .NET Framework

MISRA Compliance Information for TargetLink

Updates and patches for XIL API .NET

You will learn how to define road networks and create traffic scenarios with various fellow vehicles.

Compatibility of dSPACE software with Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) standards

Compatibility of dSPACE software with AUTOSAR standards

Version information: Solutions DVD 15.1 for Release 2015-A

Utilities for SystemDesk

Updates and patches for SystemDesk

Windows 64-bit Operating Systems Support of dSPACE Products

Version information: Solutions DVD 15.2.1 for Release 2015-B

Guideline with code examples on how to migrate HIL API MAPort Python scripts to XIL API .NET MAPort using PythonNET

Find a complete testsuite for Autonomous Emergency Braking that is defined by the EURO-NCAP authority. The tests are implemented in AutomationDesk and ModelDesk, executed on VEOS and observable in MotionDesk.

Supported combinations of evaluation boards, microcontrollers, and compilers for VEOS processor-in-the-loop (PIL) simulation and SystemDesk VPU generation.

The TargetLink AUTOSAR Migration Tool serves to convert standard, non-AUTOSAR TargetLink models to AUTOSAR at the click of a button.

Find demos and related documentation for the Real-Time Testing (RTT) Observer Library.

This utility for ControlDesk is used to back up the configuration of the measurement signal list.

Version information: Solutions DVD 16.1 for Release 2016-A

Guideline with code examples on how to migrate HIL API MAPort .NET programs to XIL API MAPort

This utility helps you to exchange a platform or device in a ControlDesk experiment by a platform or device of a different type.

This training course covers the entire tool chain for variant-based workflow management (VBWM), from configuring to executing automated processes.

Updates and patches for SYNECT

DS1006 Processor Board Hardware Compatibility Information for Expansion Boxes PX5, PX10 and PX20

Frequently Asked Questions about ConfigurationDesk.

Annotations about the compatibility of 64-bit dSPACE programs with Windows, MATLAB, and Python as of Release 2016-B

How to migrate from MLIB/MTRACE to dSPACE XIL API MAPort .NET

The ControlDesk XCP Stimulator allows you to measure, calibrate, and stimulate the variables of an application running on an ECU or V-ECU at the same time provided that two XCP service instances are implemented in the application running on the ECU/V-ECU.

You will learn about the concept and the structure of the ASM Engine InCylinder Simulation models. The course will also explain the basics of in-cylinder-pressure-based engine simulation.

Updates and Patches for VEOS

The dSPACE Profiler for Real-Time Interface (RTI) and ConfigurationDesk can be used to analyze timing behavior of applications running on dSPACE platforms.

Simulation of electric drives and power electronics, position sensor virtualization and interface functions

TargetLink offers various methods for embedding external code. This application note gives you a brief overview of the various methods and describes possible use cases.

This application note demonstrates how to setup TargetLink if you want to generate code and ASAP2 files for a platform that is not directly supported by TargetLink's Target Simulation Module.

In this training course, you will learn how to configure a dSPACE system as a simulation node in a FlexRay network and create application-specific Simulink models.

Frequently Asked Questions about MotionDesk.

Qualification of dSPACE Release 2014-A with MATLAB R2014a

Utility for converting sdmlib stimulus files for use with ControlDesk Next Generation

This application note shows how variables as well as functions can be properly mapped to the desired memory segments in TargetLink. The memory partitioning of AUTOSAR 4.0.3 is taken as an example.

This demonstration shows how to read, write and capture signals from devices based on the VISA API.

The information in this document allows you to plan your next steps for migrating to new MATLAB and dSPACE releases.

This application note describes how to interconnect the tools dSPACE SystemDesk and EB tresos Studio and which step of the workflow should be performed in which tool. It is also shown how to integrate TargetLink in the workflow.

This application note for Test Automation Tools describes how to migrate existing Python scripts for use under Python 2.7

The TargetLink AUTOSAR Guidelines contain rules and guidelines for TargetLink users who want to model and implement AUTOSAR software components (SWCs) with TargetLink.

Version information: Solutions DVD 14.2 for Release 2014-B

Version & Compatibility Information RCP&HIL Software Release 2014-B

The aviation industry requires that safety-critical software is assessed according to rigorous safety and development guidelines before it might be used on commercial airliners.

MATLAB Compatibility Information

Windows 8 Support of dSPACE Products

You will learn about the concept and the structure of the ASM Battery model. The course will also deal with the options for parameterizing a battery.

​The SYNECT Test Management Simulink Signal Builder Plug-in demonstrates the capabilities of the SYNECT Test Management Python Plugin in the use case of automated MATLAB/Simulink test cases.

This document describes the requirements of MotionDesk on the PC hard- and software regarding 3D online animation.

Updates and Patches for CalDesk

This application note demonstrates the interaction of TargetLink and DaVinci in an AUTOSAR tool chain.

One often has to model functional variants, i.e. different realizations for certain features that can be switched. This application note describes methods and techniques to realize function variants with TargetLink.

You will learn about the concept and the structure of the ASM Engine Simulation models. The course will also deal with the options for parameterizing the engine.

Known Problem Reports TargetLink 1.3 and TargetLink 2.x

Frequently Asked Questions about Test Automation Software.

The FailureSimulationExportTool exports information from an existing ControlDesk FailureSimulation system file to ErrorConfiguration and PortConfiguration files. These files can be used to perform electrical error simulation.

This application note is a reference on migrating ControlDesk 3.x automation scripts to reuse them with ControlDesk Next Generation.

MATLAB Compatibility Information

dSPACE Test Automation Tools Office Libraries to access Microsoft Office products with Python

This application note provides a detailed description of TargetLink's variable class template mechanism. This includes the mechanism's interaction with the scope reduction of variables and the consequences of function inlining with respect to variables.

This application note demonstrates the interaction of SystemDesk and TargetLink in an AUTOSAR tool chain.

This application note provides an overview of the code generator options in TargetLink that influence the optimization and the basic form of the generated code with regard to typical optimization goals.

The Test Framework to Test Builder Migration Tool for AutomationDesk allows automatic migration of existing Test Framework projects and libraries to Test Builder implementations.

This application note outlines how an ad hoc network and a VNC connection can be established with the MicroAutoBox Embedded PC running MS Windows® 7 or Ubuntu®/Linux.

This application note contains guidelines for using Model Referencing in combination with TargetLink

This application note outlines how the status LED of the MicroAutoBox Embedded PC can be programmed under MS Windows® 7 and Ubuntu®/Linux.

This application note describes the workflow for using NVRAM blocks in a SystemDesk project. Additionally, a sample SystemDesk project is provided.

This application note describes the workflow for integrating the ECU-State-Manager into a SystemDesk project for simulation purposes.

This application note shows how to work with the RapidPro application-specific predefined configurations.

This application note describes how to extend SystemDesk's functionalities for basic software (BSW) modules by external functions.

This application note describes how to use a MicroBlaze processor block as part of a Simulink FPGA model with the dSPACE Real-Time Interface (RTI) FPGA Programming Blockset.

This application note describes how to set up TargetLink in a multi-user environment to ensure a consistent workflow.

This application note shows how to receive GPS data in the NMEA-0183 protocol with the serial interface of the MicroAutoBox.

This application note for TargetLink along with the enclosed demo models show how to increase functional safety in model-based software development processes by implementing the complementary RAM data storage concept.

This RapidPro application note shows how to use PZAmp in conjunction with MicroAutoBox.

This application note contains information about using the RapidPro SC-EGOS 2/1 lambda probe module in a real-time application.

dSPACE offers TargetLink webinars on technical challenges and dSPACE solutions for them.

dSPACE offers SystemDesk webinars on technical challenges and dSPACE solutions for them.

dSPACE offers AutomationDesk webinars on technical challenges and dSPACE solutions for them.

These videos give you a deeper insight into the functions of AutomationDesk.

dSPACE provides Tutorial Videos for ControlDesk which show how to work with ControlDesk.

dSPACE provides Tutorial Videos for AutomationDesk which show how to work with AutomationDesk.

These videos give you a deeper insight into the functions of ASM.

dSPACE offers ASM webinars on technical challenges and dSPACE solutions for them.

dSPACE offers SCALEXIO webinars on technical challenges and dSPACE solutions for them.

dSPACE offers VEOS webinars on technical challenges and dSPACE solutions for them.

These videos give you a deeper insight into the functions of ASM Traffic.

These videos give you a deeper insight into the functions of ConfigurationDesk.

These videos give you a deeper insight into the functions of ControlDesk.

These videos give you a deeper insight into the functions of the MicroLabBox.

These videos give you a deeper insight into the functions of ModelDesk.

These videos give you a deeper insight into the functions of MotionDesk.

These videos give you a deeper insight into the functions of SCALEXIO.

These videos give you a deeper insight into the functions of VEOS.

These videos give you a deeper insight into the functions of SYNECT.

These videos give you a deeper insight into the functions of SystemDesk.

These videos give you a deeper insight into the functions of TargetLink.

FAQ Videos for dSPACE products

dSPACE provides Tutorial Videos for ConfigurationDesk which show how to work with ConfigurationDesk.