dSPACE Ethernet Configuration Package 4.3

Compatibility

Available Version	4.3p232
Release date	May 2023
Minimum required Maintenance End Date of licenses	2020-04-30
Supported dSPACE Release	2020-A
Supported MATLAB Release	R2018b, R2019a, R2019b, R2020a

Information and Features

Communication description format

AUTOSAR: 4.2.2, 4.3.0, 4.3.1, 4.4.0, Classic Platform Release R19-11, Classic Platform Release R20-11

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

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 

 

Bus Simulation Container (BSC)

For RTMaps

 

Supported Hardware

SCALEXIO

• DS6331-PE
• Onboard Ethernet port of SCALEXIO Processing Unit incl. DS6001
• DS6333-PE/-CS
• DS6336-PE/-CS

MicroAutoBox III

• Onboard Ethernet ports of MicroAutoBox III
• DS1521

AUTERA

• Onboard Ethernet ports of AUTERA
• DS7333-PE
• DS7336-PE