New Features and Migration - dSPACE

■■■■■■■■■▼Key Features of dSPACE Release 5.0 ▲■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■To build a system, the Control Unit can be used separately or incombination with the Power Unit and/or SC Unit (as shown above) tosupport power stages and further signal conditioning. An integratedunit connection bus (UCB) then connects several RapidPro SC or PowerUnits electrically to the Control Unit without external wiring.New Features for ConfigurationDeskConfigurationDesk 1.1 comes with the following new features:Display of newdiagnostic messagesWatchdogGeneration of HWT fileNew supportedhardwareRegardless of whether ConfigurationDesk is running in the foregroundor in the background or is minimized, you are informed of newdiagnostic messages by an icon in the task bar of your desktop.SC Units and Power Units used as single units have a watchdogfunction for safety purposes, which can be activated or deactivated viaConfigurationDesk.An HWT file can now be generated in online mode as well as in offlinemode.The HWT file can be imported to the RTI RapidPro Control UnitBlockset to introduce the RapidPro hardware to the blockset.The following new RapidPro hardware is supported byConfigurationDesk 1.1:■■■MC-MPC5554 1/1 microcontroller module (DS1603)COM-USB-PI 1/1 (DS1607): USB prototyping interface formeasurement, calibration, and hardware configurationBus transceiver modules:• TRX-CAN-LS 1/1 (DS1615): 1-channel bus transceiver modulefor fault-tolerant low-speed CAN (ISO 11992)• TRX-CAN-HS 1/1(DS1619): 1-channel bus transceiver modulefor high-speed CAN (ISO 11898)■■SC-EGOS 2/1 (DS1634): 2-channel exhaust gas oxygen sensormodulePS-HCFBD 1/1 (DS1667): 1-channel, high-current, full-bridge drivermodule14■■■■■■■■■■■■▼dSPACE Release New Features and Migration November 2005