Paderborn's technological company dSPACE was granted an award for its exceptional achievement for the development of automotive battery systems. An international jury consisting of members from automotive companies such as Lotus, Toyota Motorsport, Ginetta, Cayman Dynamics and Spyker awarded this year's Hardware Innovation of the Year prize to dSPACE.

To increase the safety and reliability of electronic control units (ECUs), the automotive industry is turning to realistic early simulation. The tool for this is the new dSPACE Offline Simulator, with which virtual ECUs can be simulated on a PC. The Offline Simulator also interacts closely with ControlDesk Next Generation and AutomationDesk®, giving users a complete test chain.

dSPACE has added another innovation to its range of products for developing driver assistance systems: the ADASIS v2 Horizon Reconstructor Blockset (ADASIS v2 HR Blockset). This is a Simulink blockset that provides access to data on the road ahead. The data comes from a navigation system or a special ECU, for example, and is transmitted via the ADASIS v2 protocol.

Two new features give the dSPACE MicroAutoBox II great flexibility for specialized rapid control prototyping tasks: an integrated Spartan-6 FPGA that is programmable by model-based design1), and new I/O extension modules.

The dSPACE ASM Electric Components simulation package is now supported by JMAG, a Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tool for electromechanical design developed by the JSOL Corporation. ASM Electric Components are Automotive Simulation Models (ASM) for the real-time simulation of vehicle electrical systems or even hybrid drivetrains. With JMAG, users can now define the key characteristics of electric motors and export them to parameterize the generic ...

JMAG Parameterization Support for dSPACE ASM Electric Components Graphical definition of motor characteristics Easy and precise parameterization of the ASM electric motor models Precise electric drive simulations

Automotive electrical system and electrical drives simulation. - Open MATLAB®/Simulink® model. - Real-time simulation and offline simulation. - Automotive components, such as battery, starter, electric motors. - Closed loop electric drives simulation

dSPACE's latest addition to its Automotive Simulation Models simulation package is a new battery model for simulating high-voltage rechargeable batteries. The model is designed to virtualize the rechargeable lithium-ion, nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) and lead batteries used for the electrification of vehicle drivetrains.

dSPACE's latest addition to its Automotive Simulation Models (ASM) simulation package is a new battery model for simulating high-voltage rechargeable batteries. The model is designed to virtualize the rechargeable lithium-ion, nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) and lead batteries used for the electrification of vehicle drivetrains. The model facilitates function development for battery management systems (BMS) and also the testing of close-to-producti...

With a major performance boost in Version 3.0 of SystemDesk, the architecture software, dSPACE has optimized its AUTOSAR modeling and simulation environment for use in production projects.

Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation makes it possible to test new ECUs and software largely in a virtual environment throughout the entire development cycle, without real vehicles or prototypes. The idea is to connect real ECU prototypes to real-time models of the vehicle and its mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and electronic components. This allows systematic and fully automated testing of the ECU and the entire electronic vehicle system.

dSPACE presents SCALEXIO, its new system of hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulators. dSPACE leads the market in this segment and is a major driving force behind this technology. The SCALEXIO technology introduces completely new hardware and software architectures that fulfill all users' changed requirements for HIL projects.

New from dSPACE is the MicroAutoBox Embedded PC, an optional extension for the MicroAutoBox compact prototyping system that is tailored to the needs of current development trends. The Embedded PC provides an Intel Atom processor (1.6 GHz), 2 GB RAM, a 2.5 SATA hard or solid state disk drive and numerous interfaces for new application options.

At the embedded world Exhibition & Conference 2011, dSPACE will present SCALEXIO, its new system of hardware-in-the-loop simulators. dSPACE leads the market in this segment and is a major driving force behind this technology. The SCALEXIO technology introduces completely new hardware and software architectures that fulfill all users' changed requirements for HIL projects.

The limits for nitrates in diesel engine emissions defined by international standards such as EURO 6 (in the European Union) and EPA 2010 TIER IV (from the USA's Environmental Protection Agency) are becoming increasingly strict. Compliance with these tougher limits is not possible without electronically controlled catalytic converters. Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems that use urea injection (with AdBlue) are an especially effective so...

dSPACE is launching two new variants of its rapid control prototyping platform MicroAutoBox II. Since the summer of 2010, the new-generation MicroAutoBoxes have increased computing power and standard Ethernet interfaces. The two latest additions to the family have even more powerful I/O interfaces on top of that, and one of the two also has an FPGA board for extra extension options. As of the end of 2010, all the variants of MicroAutoBox II will ...

ControlDesk Next Generation, dSPACE's universal experiment software, is the new all-round tool for the entire development and validation process for electronic control units (ECUs). It covers the fields of rapid control prototyping, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, access to vehicle bus systems, ECU calibration and diagnostics, and more. This central experiment software gives users a homogeneous tool environment to work in, reducing the costs of ...

The DS1639 signal conditioning module (SC-UHEGO 2/1) for dSPACE's RapidPro hardware now supports quick connection of DENSO's new lambda probes PLUS5.0 and PLUS5.1 to dSPACE prototyping systems. The new lambda probes' features include faster warm-up and activation times. This enhances their cold-start behavior and gives them dynamic behavior in operation.

The limits for nitrates in diesel engine emissions defined by international standards such as EURO 6 (in the European Union) and EPA 2010 TIER IV (from the USA's Environmental Protection Agency) are becoming increasingly strict. Compliance with these tougher limits is not possible without electronically controlled catalytic converters. Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems that use urea injection (with AdBlue) are an especially effective so...

The new MicroAutoBox II is the next generation of dSPACE's compact rapid prototyping platform for in-vehicle use. MicroAutoBox II gives ECU function developers even faster real-time computation of their controller models. This boost to processing power comes from a new processor board equipped with an IBM PowerPC processor running at 900 MHz.