FlexCard Cyclone II SE has a smaller size, which has the advantage that the card can be integrated into the laptop without any overhang.

The FlexCard Cyclone II SE 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 Cyclone II SE is a 32bit CARDBUS-Card for a CARDBUS-compatible PCMCIA slot of a notebook. This 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 Cyclone II SE 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 even so powerful, this card integrates into the wide range of Eberspächer products on the FlexRay market. Almost all applications are open to the user:

• Usage with specially written software
• Usage with tools of Agostec/Xtm
• Usage with Labview of National Instruments

• Async Mode: Receiving of all messages on the bus is possible without synchronising (via FIFO buffer).
• Async/Sync Mode: Before synchronising the data are received asynchronously. As soon as the FlexCard is synchronised, there is a streaming transition from the Async to the Sync Mode. With this functionality the start-up procedure of a card can be monitored and registered exactly.
• With these new trigger conditions the error diagnostics with an oscilloscope on the bus can be facilitated.
• No new drivers are needed for the FlexCard family.

• Sending and reception of FlexRay
• Synchronicity with network will be immediately notified (with timestamp)
• User is informed about error states (e.g. bus/syntax errors) directly
• Asynchronous and synchronous mode on FlexRay-network
• Reception of nullframes can be enabled/disabled
• Additional enhancement of data throughput
• Acknowledgement of sending frames possible
• Configurable trigger output
• Support of different operating systems – LabVIEW, Windows, Linux and Xenomai
• Firmware update possible directly over the PC

• System Requirements
  • PC-Card Type II Slot, CARDBUS-compatible
  • Windows 2000 / XP
• Communication Controller
  • FPGA, ALTERA Cyclone EP2C70
• Physical Layer
  • FlexRay bus driver
• Interfaces
  • 2 FlexRay channels
  • Trigger input
  • Trigger output