Design suite accelerates automotive development

Automotive electronics specialist Fujitsu Ten is using the DK Design Suite for internal product development and customer services business.

Celoxica's DK Design Suite of system design tools has been adopted by Fujitsu Ten, a leading provider of advanced automotive electronics.

After comprehensive evaluation and testing, the DK Design Suite will be deployed for internal Fujitsu Ten product development and customer services business.

"Through extensive testing we have proved that we can integrate C-based design and synthesis with model based design approaches".

"This better enables us to turn software into silicon and it will have a beneficial impact on our productivity and our customer responsiveness", said Mr Tonou, Department General Manager at Fujitsu Ten.

"With CRMS we can offer our customers real-time modelling and simulation performance and enable engineers to identify issues in engine design much earlier than was previously possible".

"This leads to better product quality, improved reliability and lower costs".

Fujitsu Ten based its decision on the results of a large scale project to develop an advanced motor control hardware-in-the loop (HIL) simulator, CRMS.

Algorithm design was shared between the DK Design Suite and Simulink model based design environment from the Mathworks.

DK was also used for the algorithm acceleration, parallelisation and direct implementation of the CRMS system and software models onto its simulation platform.

The performance of the new CRMS HIL simulator is 100x faster than processor-oriented solutions with significantly lower power consumption.

The new simulation platform developed for CRMS mounts high density programmable SoCs to simulate the behaviour of the motor in real time using a newly developed motor model suitable for reciprocating engines and hybrids.

With its unique features designers can use the CRMS environment to develop motor control algorithms without a physical motor actuator and a drive circuit having been manufactured.

This significantly reduces risks and costs and ease-of-use features accelerate development and improve productivity.

"It's exciting to work with innovative companies like Fujitsu Ten and I'm delighted that they have selected Celoxica as a key partner for their future product development and services business".

"Their approach to designing next generation electronics exemplifies what ESL is all about", said Phil Bishop, President and CEO of Celoxica.

"By bringing together C-based design and synthesis with model based design, Fujitsu Ten has successfully proved and put in to place the essential components for complex electronics design".

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