Advanced Automotive Test and Simulation: NI-XNET
The automotive design world is an incredibly complicated space, with highly specialized requirements. For this program, we set out to design a new hardware platform that would allow for PC-based development and simulation of ECUs, Sensors, and other networked automotive peripherals. Furthermore, this hardware had to meet the performance needs for realtime integration with actual vehicle platforms, allowing for hardware-in-the-loop development and testing.
At its core, these devices allowed for an asymmetric multiprocessor architecture that allowed vehicle communication protocol simulations to operate in a realtime and deterministic way even when running on PCs of unpredictable latency. These products were adopted and deployed by Audi, BMW, Ford, GM, and others.
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Electrical Design, Mechanical Design, PCBA Design, FPGA development, Embedded Software, Compliance, Test, Manufacturing