dSPACE Ethernet Configuration Package 4.2

Compatibility

Information and Features

Communication description format 

AUTOSAR: 4.2.2, 4.3.0, 4.3.1, 4.4.0 

FIBEX (deprecated): 4.1.0, 4.1.1 
 

Service Based Communication 

SOME/IP Service Discovery 

SOME/IP 

• Events
• Methods (requests, responses)
• Tag Length Value (TLV) format 

SOME/IP Transport Protocol 

nPDU Feature 

Signal Based Communication 

COM based ISignal PDUs 

• Inside of Services
• Outside of Services
• ISignal Groups 

Multiplex ISignal PDU (raw data access) 

Static IPDU Container 

Dynamic IPDU Container 
 

Special Data Types 

Variable Size Array (VSA) 

Complex Datatypes 

String as UInt Array 
 

Computation Methods

Linear 

Identical 
 

End-to-End protection 

AUTOSAR: 1A, 1C, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 

FIBEX: 1A, 1C, 4 
 

UDP/IP Network Management 

supported 
 

Secure Onboard Communication 

User specific algorithm support 
 

Global Time Synchronisation

AUTOSAR Profile 

IEEE 802.1AS Profile 
 

Cyclic transmission 

Events 

COM based ISignal PDUs 
 

Transport Layer 

TCP/IP 

UDP/IP 
 

Unicast communication 

supported 
 

Multicast communication 

supported 
  

Unicast/Multicast switch threshold 

supported 
  

Network Layer 

IPv4 

IPv6 
 

Data Link Layer 

Addressing of several Ethernet Controllers 

IEEE 802.1Q (VLAN) 

Multi MAC Simulation per Ethernet Controller: IEEE 802.1ad (QinQ) 
 

Simulation and Manipulation Feature 

Manipulation of ECU IP addresses (predefined by ARXML) 

Manipulation of Unicast/Multicast switch threshold 

Inspection of Network Traffic

• Events
• Methods
• ISignal PDUs 

Inspection using dedicated Ethernet controller 
 

Automation Interface 

Configuration by XML file 
 

Application Interface 

Simulink 

• Signal based
• Bus object based 

TRC (trace file)

• Signal based
• Index based (arrays only) 

C-API 

Supported Hardware

SCALEXIO

• DS6331-PE
• Onboard Ethernet port of SCALEXIO Processing Unit incl. DS6001
• DS6333-PE/-CS