IXXAT will present it’s new universal Embedded Platform on the Embedded World fair in Nuremberg. This platform is intended for customers who like to start the development of specific application software for the automotive area fast, but do not have the target hardware available.

The hardware supports a temperature range between -20 °C and +70 °C, is based on a powerful ARM9 microcontroller and provides many interfaces for the connection to all important automotive bus systems. Available interfaces are among others: FlexRay, 4 x CAN, 2 x LIN and K-Line. In addition, further RS-232 interfaces for the connection of external peripheral devices are available, as well as digital and analog I/Os.
The chosen hardware architecture provides a high data throughput for all interfaces without claiming to much microcontroller computing time. Time stamps with an accuracy of 1 µs can be assigned to the messages on all automotive bus system interfaces. This also applies for the analog and digital I/Os.

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IXXAT is pleased to announce the availability of version 3.1 of its versatile CANopen Device Manager.
CANopen Device Manager is a universal, plug-in based CANopen tool targeted to support engineers during the device development and testing process. Due to its unique extensibility by custom plug-ins or Python script files it is also the ideal basis for the implementation of highly specialized end-of-line test applications or service tools.

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Besides PCI and ISA, IXXAT now also supports the well-priced single channel USB-to-CAN compact and the dual channel USB-to-CAN II interface with a layer-2 Linux driver free of charge.
This enables the development and the usage of customer specific analysis, configuration and test applications on notebooks and other mobile systems. Due to the common driver interface, an adaptation of existing Linux applications to support the USB interfaces can be made very easily.

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