FlexDevice-L²

multifunctional bus control unit

Article number: 3-V0870S03

The multifunctional bus control unit FlexDevice-L² supports the current and upcoming bus systems and has numerous variable interfaces, thus covering most of the application fields where bus interfaces are required.

Description

Product information

FlexDevice-L² is the flagship of the FlexDevice product range, which is used and recognized by many car manufacturers and component suppliers in their automotive electronics development. The FlexDevice family provides manifold solutions for:

gateways between different automotive bus systems
bus interfaces
remaining bus simulation
signal manipulation
data logging
rapid prototyping

DRIVER

You can download the driver packages of our devices in their current version here for free.

Advantages

5 bus connectors that can be allocated flexibly via pluggable transceivers (2-6 bus interfaces on each bus connector)
The following maximum interfaces* can be reched: 8 FlexRay controllers (8 Bosch E-Ray Cores); 10 FlexRay channels; 20 CAN-FD / CAN-HS; 10 Standard Ethernet (100BASE-TX); 7 Automotive Ethernet (1000BASE-T1, 100BASE-T1); 30 SENT/LIN – (*Depending on the combination of the pluggable transceiver an available FPGA-Images)
2 ARM Cortex A9 Dual Core (800 MHz) with 2 GByte DDR3 RAM
Integrated WiFi and Bluetooth module
Wake-up/sleep mode support
Startup <200 ms
Temperature range - 40°C to + 85°C

Technical details

2 Altera Cyclone V SOC (integrated ARM Cortex A9 Dual Core CPU)
2 GByte DDR RAM
5 bus connectors that can be allocated flexibly via pluggable transceivers
2-6 bus interfaces are available on each bus connector
Up to 8 FlexRay controllers (8 Bosch E-Ray Cores)
Up to 10 FlexRay channels (5 channel A and 5 channel B) available on the bus connectors
In any case, 2 FlexRay cores can be connected internally (SelfSync)
Up to 20 CAN-HS bus interfaces
Up to 20 CAN-FD bus interfaces
Wake-up/sleep support (wake-up possible via FlexRay or CAN)
Up to 10 100 Mbit/s Ethernet bus interfaces
Up to 10 100BASE-T1 bus interfaces
1 Gbit/s Ethernet configuration interface
Integrated 1 Gbit/s Ethernet switch
One internal and one external Micro SD card slot
4 digital inputs or outputs (DIO)
5 analog or digital inputs (ADI)
Integrated WiFi module (b/n/g)
Integrated Bluetooth module (4.2 BR/EDR BLE dual mode controller)

Downloads

Specsheet

Platform_FlexDevice_L2_Specsheet [PDF, 0.38 MB]

Driver

Driver FlexCard USB-M Windows [ZIP, 0.00 MB]

Accessories

FlexConfig SDK

FlexConfig SDK is a .NET lib for the easy access of automotive bus systems in your own windows applications. The Library supports a wide range of automotive network description formats like AUTOSAR (.arxml) or CANdb. and together with the STAR ELECTRONICS FlexDevices or FlexCards we provide a simple and very powerful solution for this challenge.

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FlexConfig Analyzer

The FlexConfig Analyzer software visualizes CAN, LIN or FlexRay data on a smartphone or tablet. For this, a wireless connection is established via Wi-Fi with a suitable bus interface.

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FlexConfig RBS

FlexConfig RBS is a software to generate a hardware assisted RBS and Gateways. Several network description formats are supported. The generated RBS runs independently on a separate hardware.

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