Advanced Control Education (ACE) Kits

Combined Hardware and Software Packages for Developing and Testing Complex Control System

With the ACE Kits, dSPACE offers universities specifically combined packages of high-performance hardware and comprehensive software tools for developing and testing complex control systems in courses and for research purposes.

Core Components of the ACE Kits

dSPACE ACE Kits make it easy to visualize even the most complex open and closed loop control concepts, from the initial draft using block diagrams to the final online optimization of the controller in real time. To work with ACE Kits, you use easy-to-operate, intuitive Microsoft Windows® tools that can transfer your Simulink® models to the dSPACE real-time hardware in seconds. Observing the effects that parameter changes have on your system’s behavior becomes as easy as child's play.

ACE Kit Components

Products included in the individual kits	MicroAutoBox III	MicroLabBox	DS1104	SCALEXIO
MicroAutoBox III, dSPACE Hardware	✓
MicroLabBox¹⁾ with a dual-core processor (2 GHz), dSPACE hardware		✓
DS1104 PPC Controller Board, dSPACE hardware			✓
Modular SCALEXIO real-time system, dSPACE hardware				✓
ConfigurationDesk, dSPACE software	✓			✓
Real-Time Interface (RTI)²⁾, dSPACE software		✓	✓
Platform API Package²⁾, dSPACE software	✓	✓	✓	✓
ControlDesk²⁾, dSPACE software	✓	✓	✓	✓

a= standard component

• = optional component

¹⁾ Available as a front-panel variant and several top-panel variants.

²⁾ Real-Time Interface, Platform API Package and ControlDesk are also available at attractive conditions without ACE Kit as the Control Development Software Package (CDP).