EBERSPÄCHER ELECTRONICS automotive bus systems

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1 EBERSPÄCHER ELECTRONICS automotive bus systems YOUR PARTNER FOR IN-VEHICLE NETWORKING DRIVING THE MOBILITY OF TOMORROW

2 2 AUTOmotive bus systems EBERSPÄCHER ELECTRONICS: THE EXPERTS IN AUTOMOTIVE BUS SYSTEMS Our group of companies Our know-how your advantage Eberspächer is one of the leading system suppliers for exhaust technology, vehicle heaters and bus AC systems. We are also professional partners in innovation for the automotive industry worldwide in the areas of automotive electronics and networking with automotive bus systems. Groundbreaking products from Eberspächer increase the performance of passenger cars and commercial vehicles across the world and ensure more comfort and safety. The Eberspächer Group employs around 6,000 employees worldwide and has more than 60 locations in 26 countries on four continents: we are there, wherever our customers in the automotive sector need us. Our tradition In 1865, the foundation stone of the group of companies was laid and, even today, Eberspächer has remained a shareholdermanaged, family company with lean, medium-sized company structures. Since 2008, Eberspächer Electronics has been a part of this successful group. The subsidiary company was the result of a takeover of the business division FlexRay/Bus Systems from the Transferzentrum Mikroelektronik (TZM), belonging to Steinbeis GmbH & Co. KG für Technologietransfer in Stuttgart, Germany, which was founded in 1991 in Göppingen. Eberspächer Electronics are the experts in automotive bus systems and are considered pioneering in the area of FlexRay bus systems: since 1996, we have been developing hard- and software for TTP bus systems and, since 1999, we have been concentrating on FlexRay technology. We were developing and producing various hardware platforms for the evaluation of FlexRay for customer projects very early on. As a result of these projects, we now have a complete portfolio of a wide range of hard- and software products for FlexRay and beyond. More than 30 employees work in our development department to ensure continuous improvement and expansion of our product range, as well as tailor-made solutions for you. Our solutions and products are primarily targeted at engineers in the areas of development and testing. Our tools simplify their daily work in developing and testing electronic control units and help to reduce the complexity of tasks, making them more efficient. Prototypes can therefore be built sooner, faults can be found earlier and systems can be approved faster. This efficiency is matched by the quality of your end product. Eberspächer Electronics is also a leading supplier of FlexRay development hardware and provides you with a wide range of further FlexRay products. As well as that, Eberspächer Electronics also offers professional, practice-oriented training courses for a variety of different target groups. As a professional service provider with solid bus system know-how, in particular regarding FlexRay, we will support you with tailormade engineering services, tools and test functions. Our services include the implementation of Eberspächer Electronics products in your systems and contract development projects for hard- and software in the area of bus systems. On top of that, we can also design, build and bring into operation complete testing facilities for development and production.

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5 AUTOMotive bus systems 5 OUR STRENGTHS As an automotive manufacturer and supplier, you are confronted with new challenges every day, and increasing time and cost pressures. The scope of networking, in particular, is growing constantly and requires frequent modifications to the development process. We see it as our task to support you in bringing this work to a successful conclusion. We set ourselves the challenge of providing you with the right solutions, which are also cost-effective and easy-to-use. We understand our customers tasks, and ways of thinking and working. We can therefore understand the problems they come to us with and find precise solutions for them. Since 1999, our development focus has been on FlexRay bus technology for invehicle networking. This product portfolio has grown continuously since then and now includes solutions that range from networking start-up to production testing applications. As a service provider with solid development competence, we can implement your requests flexibly with our components or adapt them to fit specific requirements for measurement and testing purposes. Our product range covers everything from your own tailor-made network analysis software to various solutions for remaining bus simulation (RBS), from signal manipulation to network interfaces. We also provide you with consulting, schematics design and component selection services, as well as the layout and production of up to 1,000 units per year. Last but not least, we can provide FPGA programming, embedded software for microcontrollers, Windows and Linux device drivers, and Windows applications software. Our range of solutions provides all the tools and components required to put together a complete, individual system for you. For you, this means that it is easy to order replacements, that costs are lower and that the cost-benefit ratio is ideal. You too can profit from our excellent FlexRay and FIBEX know-how. The targeted further development of Eberspächer Electronics will also give you the security of knowing that you have set the right course for the long term, too. We look forward to meeting the challenges you set us.

6 6 AUTOmotive bus systems NETWORKING WITH FLEXRAY Open data bus with many benefits Electronic control units and electronic components are an important part of modern vehicle design today. In order to guarantee the smooth transfer of data between all components, standardized communication busses are used. Constantly increasing requirements for data rates and data security also require time-triggered bus systems. The open bus standard FlexRay not only fulfills these requirements, but also provides you with numerous other advantages. As a bus system it was specially developed for use in vehicles and also for extreme climatic applications. With a data transfer rate ten times higher than that of a similar CAN bus, you can transfer large amounts of data quickly, easily and reliably. A secure transfer of your data is also ensured by the two-channel structure of the bus system, which will enable you to profit from the redundancy of the system in your applications. And all this can also be deterministic, because with FlexRay you have the option of repeating cycles of messages in allocated fixed time slots with a high bandwidth. The FlexRay bus system can be individually adapted to your requirements and is extremely flexible it can even be used in applications other than vehicles. Since as early as 2006, the open FlexRay data bus has been used in numerous production applications. For you, this means that with FlexRay, Eberspächer Electronics can provide you with a tried and tested system for data transfer, one which is already in use across the globe. Our solutions reduce the complexity of FlexRay and make it simple and easy-to-use. You can profit from the clear advantages of FlexRay, too for secure and flexible in-vehicle networking. Ethernet Diagnostic CAN Engine FlexRay Central Gateway MOST Infotainment CAN ESP Steering Damper front Damper rear Wiper Door module Lights Radar Seat control Heater Conditioning Brake LIN Fan

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9 AUTOMotive bus systems 9 GATEWAY AND SIGNAL MANIPULATION In order to test the development of your electronic control units and electronic components effectively, these must be integrated into the target network as early as the prototype phase, for testing purposes. The problem is that often the necessary communication partners are missing. With our combination of hard- and software, Eberspächer Electronics provides you with the perfect solution for the simulation of missing components as a remaining bus, in order to execute comprehensive and informative testing of your prototypes. Our hardware platform FlexXCon is not only impressive due to its robust structure, which can be used in any testing conditions from the laboratory to extreme practical application but also has variable interfaces and can be used in various different bus systems such as CAN and FlexRay. This significantly increases the range of applications possible for your control unit tests. In combination with a PC application, you can easily and simply configure the layout of your remaining bus simulation according to your specific requirements via a clearly laid out Windows interface. Even if you wish to manipulate signals or data during the application, this can easily be done via an Ethernet connection on your test bench computer. For the simple and secure transfer of data between numerous bus systems, there is also a gateway function built in to our FlexXCon hardware. For your control unit development, this means that you have an effective tool available, which not only enables communication between networks, but also allows you to influence the data transfer. You can manipulate signals, delete them or create new ones, thereby simulating the unique testing conditions required for your control unit prototypes. And all this can also be done with various different networks: the FlexXCon hardware is also capable of transferring data from a CAN to a FlexRay bus. Before all the control units are available, you will already have all the options necessary to create the right testing environment and to complete your prototype development efficiently, cost-effectively and in a targeted manner.

10 10 AUTOmotive bus systems SOLUTIONS FOR BUS ANALYSIS Measuring and evaluating data effectively Compact and high-performance PC interfaces Testing control units involves larges amounts of data. In order to evaluate this data and present it more clearly, you need an effective tool for data analysis. The software solution developed by Eberspächer Electronics covers all the basic functions for measuring and analyzing networks in vehicles. In this way, you can monitor your test set-up more effectively. In order to take as many test conditions into account as possible during data analysis, the data assessment works with our PC application both online and offline. This provides you with the necessary flexibility required to work with the software individually and with different vehicle busses. At Eberspächer Electronics we believe that a clearly laid out graphic display is extremely important. The basic framework of our data analysis software also offers the option of carrying out expanded analyses and can be used for special applications. Numerous open interfaces, which can connect various different hardware components, make our solution a flexible and adaptable tool that can be used for much more than simply data collection. Last but not least, the analysis software also has a fault analysis function for intensive vehicle testing. We offer a comprehensive range of interface products for connecting your PC or laptop to automotive bus systems such as CAN or FlexRay. Handy interface cards record and filter working together with our analysis software the data traffic in automotive bus systems. As a network tool however, our interfaces provide you with many other features: they can be used as active bus devices and for targeted communication with an electronic control unit. As well as that, with such a wide range of different PC interfaces, we ensure that you will be able to integrate solutions from Eberspächer Electronics into your test system without any problems. All interface cards also have various different trigger options and therefore make the communication between vehicle networks and your computers run more smoothly.

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12 12 AUTOmotive bus systems TAILORED SUPPORT ALWAYS THERE FOR YOU Our service expertise available for your projects In Eberspächer Electronics, you have found the right partner for services in the area of bus systems, especially FlexRay. We will support you from beginning to end throughout your development project: from the technical specifications to the system architecture and design, right up to integration and testing. Our portfolio ranges from hardware development to FPGA, microcontroller and device driver programming, as well as applications programming. Our numerous reference projects clearly demonstrate that our solutions will successfully overcome capacity bottlenecks, simplify processes and minimize your risk. For example, on the basis of the FlexXCon hardware, we developed a control unit for the targeted manipulation of the sound coming from exhaust systems for the Exhaust Technology division at Eberspächer. We also integrated our bus simulation into the real-time test bench operating system of a leading automotive supplier and carried out the re-design of test bench systems used worldwide for another well-known major player. We are also willing to share our know-how with you at training courses designed especially for development engineers. If you wish, we can adapt our courses individually to suit your specific needs and to make things even easier for you, we can also hold them optional on-site, at your location.

13 AUTOMotive bus systems 13 TESTING EXPERTISE FOR ALL REQUIREMENTS Developing and extending individual test benches Our test bench solutions have one clear aim above all: to help you to achieve better test results more quickly. Our soft- and hardware development know-how, as well as our own in-house design and production department, enable us to design and implement systems exactly tailored to your needs. Irrespective of the size of the order, this applies to projects for modules or components as well those for durability, stress and end-of-line tests. Thanks to standard products which we developed ourselves, prototype test benches can be built quickly and cost-effectively. Numerous options to evaluate and record the results collected during testing clearly make the test bench solutions provided by Eberspächer Electronics an all-round package that will suit every requirement. As a specialist for the bus systems CAN and FlexRay, and a certified National Instruments Alliance partner, we work with various operating systems and software platforms both on PCs and with embedded software. Depending on your requirements, our experts will create the perfect test bench for you or will build on the components and systems you already have in place. We will also network existing systems and professionally connect these to the IT infrastructure. In this way, you will get your first results from the test bench as soon as the first test runs.

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15 AUTOMotive bus systems 15 tools FOR AUTOMOTIVE BUS SYSTEMS Are you looking for a complete solution and the necessary tools for testing electronic control units, prototypes in development or electronic components? The wide range of products in our portfolio, including numerous soft- and hardware products, will provide just the right solution for you. Our PC soft- and hardware cover all applications for network configuration, manipulating and changing signals, remaining bus simulation (RBS) and the analysis of data. We have developed bus analysis software which is an extremely effective tool for measuring and analyzing data, and which can also be used for clearly displaying large amounts of data. The FlexCard interfaces from Eberspächer Electronics which are available in many different form factors help you to connect your PC or laptop securely to your CAN or FlexRay network. But they not only ensure the smooth communication between your analysis software and your network, they also offer the option of testing and programming numerous different control units in end-of-line tests.

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