Introduction

The international car industry is forging ahead with innovative drive concepts such as electric motors and fuel cells, and at the same time further developing combustion drive systems. A current goal for vehicle developers is to cut fuel consumption and harmful emissions while maintaining a high standard of driveability.

dSPACE supports all the development phases, from architecture-based system design and block-diagram-based function prototyping to automatic production code generation and ECU testing and calibration. The advantages are clear:

• Front loading – fast development
• Quality assurance – reliable products
• Integrated process – tools from a single vendor

In the face of rising energy costs and imminent climate change, car makers have to design modern, cutting-edge vehicle models that customers find attractive.
Innovative drive systems greatly improve the efficiency of vehicles and reduce CO₂ emissions.

This new challenge makes reliable control systems more necessary than ever before. You can develop and test them with dSPACE.

Here's just one example: The high dynamics of modern electric motors requires particularly powerful development tools. dSPACE supports the whole process, with special electric drive solutions from a single vendor. These include special I/O interfaces, FPGA-based signal processing, and powerful simulation models and systems for measuring and phase coded signals.