Efficient  Familiarisation with  FlexRay

Do you want to investigate the FlexRay bus system as part of a research project or study, or in the preliminary phase of development, and ascertain its suitability for use in your products? Are you a project manager or developer in the area of networking, and want to familiarise yourself with FlexRay and evaluate it as a
bus system?

• It is best to start with a small network that you set up as a prototype. That way, you can ascertain whether the system and component requirements can be implemented. If you do not have any control units yet, the recommended procedure is to set up a prototype, using FlexDevel development boards as FlexRay nodes. These come with a comprehensive development environment that includes all the necessary development tools, such as compiler and debugger. There are sample configurations to make the first steps easier. A function library in C gives access to almost the entire hardware that is available on the FlexDevel. This library is delivered as source code.
  
  
• The nodes are connected by the active FlexAS star-coupler. We offer you a wide assortment of FlexRay cables to wire up your configuration.
  
  
• You can define the communication within the FlexRay network with FlexConfig and store it in a Fibex file.
  
  
• The second step is to extend the bus by adding a FlexXCon midget with remaining bus simulation. The necessary physical bus elements (transceivers) for each channel are located on a FlexTiny module, and can be exchanged sensor data that are available for purposes of evaluation via Ethernet or CAN connection can be transmitted on the FlexRay bus via CAN/Ethernet/FlexRay gateway.
  
  
• The FlexRay system can be qualified for your purposes using electrical measurements. For EMC measurements, we recommend our FlexOpto fiber optic bus extension.