EPN Automotive Electronics Blog

Testing ECUs

Modern cars consist of dozens of electronic control units. This modular architecture facilitates development and manufacturing as well as after-sales service. Even testing isn’t too hard, except when it comes to interactions between the modules. At that point, functional testing needs to go hand in hand with communications analysis.

At the hydrogen pump

Electromobility doesn’t have to be about huge and heavy batteries that need to be recharged every few hours for half a day and require large amounts of rare materials from unstable countries. One alternative is the fuell-cell vehicle based on hydrogen, very green and clean but with a downside: It needs hydrogen which is very volatile and difficult to store safely. Linde and Daimler cooperate now in order to build filling stations.

Automotive development package

With an upgrade for its simulation and prototyping tools, dSpace promises new features for development and testing engineers.