New-Tech Europe | Oct 2016 | Special Edition For Electronica 2016

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loop (HIL) verification systems. Today’s engineers face increasingly compressed, shifting schedules and constantly changing requirements driven by the emergence of the connected car and autonomous vehicles. VeriStand and NI’s HIL systems are the most open and customizable platforms available on the market to help companies meet these changing demands and future-proof their test systems. Engineers take advantage of NI’s HIL systems to tackle the increasing complexity of embedded software and rising number of testing scenarios required as the newer technologies that make up next-generation vehicles like advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), automotive radar and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) become commonplace in embedded control systems. By building on open and proven technology software and hardware platforms, NI can quickly add native support for these new technologies to ensure customers can achieve complete software test coverage. Additionally, with NI offices in 49 countries and a worldwide network of NI Alliance Partners with vertical industry and systems integration experience, turnkey test systems that meet customers’ particular application requirements can be delivered and supported. “Through NI’s flexible platform-based approach, we could easily customize the HIL system to integrate specific test requirements for the vehicle electronic controllers,” said Zhang Fuli of Beijing Jingwei HiRain Technologies, an NI Alliance Partner. “The NI software and hardware systems made it easy to add functionality to our tests and satisfy the practical requirements of automotive HIL testing while retaining stability and reliability, and reducing the overall development cycle.” VeriStand is the software core of NI’s HIL systems. It combines real-time simulation, data acquisition, communication protocols and control into a common platform for the most complete HIL test software on the market today. And unlike traditional HIL software that is defined by the vendor and hard to modify, VeriStand can easily be extended and customized to meet customers’ particular test requirements. With the newest release of the software customers can: Achieve complete test coverage by taking advantage of the full breadth of NI I/O, including RF and camera processing Use their models from over 30 different modeling tool and simulation environments such as The MathWorks, Inc. Simulink® software and IPG Carmaker to test ECUs for the

package, giving automotive designers twice the freedom to miniaturize ECUs deployed in the most extreme temperature environments and safety-critical systems. The LM2904WHYST dual op amp and LM2903WHYST dual comparator in 4.9mm x 3.0mm MiniSO8 are qualified for operation from -40°C to 150°C, with the added advantage of 50% smaller footprint than other Grade-0 parts in standard SO8. The extremely wide ambient operating temperature range of these ICs ensures robust and resilient performance in systems that are exposed to the harshest conditions. These include under-the-hood electronics such as engine controllers, in-gearbox modules, LED-lighting controllers and safety-critical systems such as ABS controllers that must provide absolute dependability. The new parts are developed with the benefit of ST’s extensive experience working withmajor automotive Tier- 1 suppliers, and can be individually tested up to 150°C as part of Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) tests. As high-quality industry-standard LM2903 and LM2904 devices, they deliver benchmark performance compared to familiar metrics including input bias current, input offset voltage, current consumption, and supply- voltage range. The LM2904WHYST and LM2903WHYST are in production now, priced from $0.51 for orders of 1000 pieces..

NI Releases HIL Software Geared to Autonomous Vehicle Testing NI (Nasdaq: NATI), the provider of platform-based systems that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, today released VeriStand 2016, the latest version of its software used by embedded software test engineers to build and run hardware-in-the-

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