The FlexRay bus system is the near-future industry standard for automotive control and automation systems. The best technical and economical achievements of today´s automotive bus-systems (e.g. CANBUS) were used as an base, and taken to new performance levels in the FlexRay bus-system. In addition to fast data transmission, (10 Mbit/sec per channel), FlexRay has realtime-capability.

Development and implementation of the FlexRay bus-system is propelled by a consortium that is composed of the world´s leading car manufacturers, chip- and tool suppliers.

The FlexCard Cyclone II is the newest generation of our premium product FlexCard. It is a flexible and multi-use monitoring and analysing device for configuration, maintenance testing and monitoring of the time-triggered FlexRay serial bus system. The FlexCard is your ticket into the FlexRay bus-system.

The FlexCard is a 32bit CARDBUS-Card for a CARDBUS-compatible PCMCIA-slot of a notebook, drivers for the common operating systems are included.

A short plug-in of this card will turn your standard notebook with the suitable software into a powerful analysing tool for the FlexRay bus system. This enables you, for example, to monitor the bus and analyse incoming messages quickly.

FlexCard processes and transfers data between the bus system and a host PC or notebook. Various filter and adjustable trigger functionalities allow you to select specified bus data for monitoring.

The main focus of this product is to offer you a flexible, small and powerful analysing device. Another possible application for you could be to use this card as a FlexRay bus node to build communication clusters with your own functionality.

With its functions this tool represents the optimal interface between hardware developers and FlexRay. Compact but powerful, almost all applications are open to the user:

Usage with specially written software

Usage with tools of cbb software (planned)

Usage with tools of Vector Informatik

Usage with LabVIEW of National Instruments

Usage with tools of CRST

Sending and reception of FlexRay symbols and wake-up pattern

Synchronisation of the network is immediately displayed

The user will be directly informed of the error status (e.g. bus/syntax errors)

Reception of "Nullframes" configurable

Additional increase of the data throughput

Sending confirmation of the frames possible

Configurable trigger output

Analysing and tracing of bus data

Two FlexRay bus channels provided

Various trigger and filter functions

Customer-specific solutions for communication with FlexRay

PC-Card Type II Slot, CARDBUS-compatible

Windows 2000 / XP Professional

2 FlexRay channels (RS485 or FlexRay bus drivers)

Trigger input

117 mm x 54 mm x 7 mm (L x W x H, extended PC-card enclosure)