Automotive Configuration Tool
System for testing automotive bus systems
With the new version 5 of the Ixxat Act tool, HMS is expanding the functional scope of the Automotive Configuration Tool and also packing numerous functions into the freeware version of the software tool.
Based on the FRC-EP 190 and FRC-EP 170 hardware platforms - with a high-performance, stand-alone capable microcontroller system and a variety of interfaces for CAN, CAN-FD, Flexray, LIN, Ethercat or Automotive Ethernet - and the new Act tool, HMS offers a system for testing automotive bus systems and devices under the Ixxat brand. According to the manufacturer, logger and visualization applications as well as complex RBS and gateway applications, including those using Matlab/Simulink and user code, can be implemented quickly and easily.
New freeware version
In addition to the data logger functionality, the new freeware version can now also be used to implement CAN/CAN FD gateways. Powerful functions are available for data visualization on any HTML5-capable end devices and own functions can be integrated via C user code. In addition, the freeware version supports the Generic Ethernet interface of the hardware platforms. Generic Ethernet is a protocol that can be used to transmit CAN data via Ethernet, for example. Among other things, this makes it possible to connect real test benches to simulations in the cloud.
Only one of the two FRC hardware platforms is required to use the freeware version. This makes it possible to set up an inexpensive and high-performance test system that already has a wide range of functions.
In addition to the freeware version, the Act tool is also available in a Lite version - with Matlab/Simulink and Ethercat support - and in a Standard version with a full range of functions. The standard version includes a powerful remaining bus simulation (RBS), which provides an easy-to-configure simulation environment for individual or multiple ECUs to test them independently of other network participants. Extensive functions for manipulating signals via XCPonEthernet, for example, are also included.
The new version 5 of the Act tool supports Fibex 3.x, 4.x and AutosarXML and has full PDU support. The manipulation of signals is now possible on all connected bus systems and is no longer limited to buses under the control of RBS. as
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