LeCroy has widened its test offering for the automotive market with compliance set-ups for MOST and Broadcom's BroadR-Reach in-vehicle cabling technologies.
The firm's QualiPHY (QPHY) package provides an automated test script for testing of both the MOST 50 ePHY and 150 oPHY signals.
"These standards have emerged in response to the rapidly increasing customer demand for devices connected to video displays and car infotainment systems. This demand has grown immensely over the past five years, creating more test challenges for automotive designers," said the firm.
As a result manufacturers use the MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transport) standard for multimedia and infotainment networking in the automotive market.
Another approach is the BroadR-Reach technology recently developed by Broadcom for low cost cabling of 100Mbit/s Ethernet over unshielded single twisted pair wiring.
LeCroy is offering a complete physical layer BroadR-Reach test solution. It includes QPHY-BroadR-Reach, an automated QualiPHY compliance test package, as well as the required test fixtures and cables.
LeCroy’s Vehicle Bus Analyzer (VBA) test system has also been expanded to operate on the WaveRunner 6 Zi, WavePro 7 Zi, and WaveMaster 8 Zi oscilloscope platforms.
The VBA test bundle combines CAN, LIN, and FlexRay trigger, decoding and analysis solutions in one option, with the addition of physical layer testing for FlexRay. It is designed to provide the capability to decode CAN protocol signals into Symbolic (application layer) text using the vehicle .dbc database file, allowing users to view the full range of CAN protocol stack information, and the ability to view additional in-circuit electrical signals that influence the CAN bus.
The additional capability to extract data from serial protocol message streams and graphically plot that data on the oscilloscope display makes the VBA a required option for any automotive design engineer. This full feature set is now available on the WaveRunner 6 Zi, WavePro 7 Zi, and WaveMaster 8 Zi oscilloscope platforms.
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