gesellschaft mit beschr nkter haftung industry automotive aerospace 1 software hardware engineering founded 1988 headquarters paderborn key people herbert hanselmann revenue 147 million 2012 2 number of employees 1200 july 2014 3 website www.dspace.com dspace gmbh digital signal processing and control engineering located in paderborn germany north rhine westphalia is one of the world s leading providers of tools for developing electronic control units . 4 5 dspace gmbh has project centers in pfaffenhofen near munich b blingen near stuttgart and wolfsburg and cooperates with the autonomous local dspace companies situated in the usa uk france japan and china . various distributors represent dspace in other overseas markets . contents 1 application fields 1.1 control design 1.2 rapid control prototyping rcp 1.3 production code generation ecu autocoding 1.4 hardware in the loop hil simulation 1.5 calibration parameterization 2 company history 3 history of dspace products 4 external links 5 references application fields edit dspace provides tools for developing testing and calibrating electronic control units ecus in the automotive aerospace 6 and medical engineering industries as well as in industrial automation 7 and mechatronics . 8 in most cases the process of developing and testing ecus is based on the five phases of the v cycle . dspace s hardware and software cover four of these five phases but not the first phase control design . control design edit the control design phase involves developing the control algorithms that will run on an ecu usually by modeling them graphically . this process can be performed with simulink modeling software from mathworks and is outside dspace s application fields . rapid control prototyping rcp edit in rapid control prototyping control algorithms are taken from a mathematical model and implemented as a real time application so that the control strategies can be tested with the actual controlled system such as a car or a robot . simulink is used as the input and simulation tool and simulink coder also from mathworks is used as the code generator . dspace provides the necessary hardware platform consisting of a processor and interfaces for sensors and actuators plus the simulink blocks needed to integrate the interfaces into the simulink model real time interface rti . production code generation ecu autocoding edit in a development process based on mathematical models the models are designed with graphical software and then automatic production code generators are used to translate the models directly into code for ecus controllers . when a model s behavior has been validated the code generator has to reliably transfer it to the target processor whose resources are usually designed for the greatest possible cost efficiency . in other words the final production ecu generally has less memory and processing power than the rcp system on which the algorithm was developed and tested . as a result the c code production code generated for the target processor has to meet stringent requirements regarding execution time and efficiency . since 1999 dspace markets its production code generator targetlink 9 which is integrated into simulink the environment for model based development . in addition to performing the actual autocoding including code generation for autosar software components targetlink also makes it possible for developers to compare the behavior of the generated code with that of the original simulink model by means of software in the loop sil and processor in the loop pil simulation . hardware in the loop hil simulation edit simulation hardware in hil simulation 10 11 a simulator mimics the environment in which an ecu will function a car an airplane a robot etc. first the ecu s inputs and outputs are connected to the simulator s inputs and outputs . in the next step the simulator executes a real time model of the ecu s working environment which can consist of automotive simulation models asms from dspace or of models from other vendors . this method provides a way to test new functions reproducibly in a safe environment before a prototype of the product has even been produced . as with rapid control prototyping simulink models are the foundation . the advantage of hil simulation in comparison with ecu tests in real prototype vehicles is that the tests on the control unit can be performed already during the development process . errors are detected and eliminated very early and cost efficiently . calibration parameterization edit optimizing the control functions so that they fit specific applications is an integral part of ecu and controller development . to achieve this the parameters of the ecus are adjusted during ecu calibration . dspace offers software and hardware for this task . company history edit new dspace building in paderborn 1988 dspace is founded by herbert hanselmann and three other research associates at the institute of mechatronics at the university of paderborn germany . 1991 first local dspace company outside germany opens dspace inc. in detroit usa . 2001 local dspace companies are opened in france dspace sarl paris and the uk dspace ltd. cambridge ; and a second project center is opened near stuttgart 2006 the local dspace company in japan is opened dspace k.k. . initially in yokohama it relocates to tokyo in 2007 . 2008 the company s 20th anniversary . the local dspace company in china dspace mechatronic control technology shanghai co. ltd. is founded and herbert hanselmann receives the entrepreneur of the year 2008 award 12 2010 dspace gmbh relocates to the new campus in paderborn germany . history of dspace products edit 1988 first real time development system for control technology mechatronics based on a digital signal processor 1989 first hardware in the loop hil simulator is shipped 1990 first real time development system with a floating point processor is shipped 1992 rti first real time system connected to matlab simulink 1994 first multiprocessor hardware for real time development systems 1995 first turnkey hil simulator for an abs esp test bench 1999 microautobox a complete prototyping system for in vehicle use 1999 targetlink the first production code generator for ecus based on matlab simulink 2003 caldesk a component of the dspace calibration system 2005 rapidpro a modular system for signal conditioning and power stages 2005 automotive simulation models asms real time automotive simulation models based on matlab simulink 2007 systemdesk 13 tool for developing complex ecu software architectures based on the autosar concept 2010 microautobox ii second generation of the vehicle capable prototyping systems 2011 scalexio the new hardware in the loop system including new configurationdesk configuration software 2012 veos 14 pc based simulation platform for early validation of ecu software 2015 microlabbox compact prototyping unit for the laboratory 15 external links edit official website references edit integration tests at hondajet test facility neue westfaelische newspaper company profile frost & sullivan award founding member of asam ligo hunting waves in space gravitational wave research with dspace equipment hybrid drive development at deutz and atlas weyhausen mechatronics development and validation targetlink 3.2 certified by t v s d hardware in the loop testing at visteon hardware in the loop testing at scania winner of the entrepreneur of the year 2008 award validating diagnostics in early development stages with daimler ag winner of the aei tech award 2012 microlabbox retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dspace gmbh & oldid 736342991 categories software companies of germanyelectronics companies of germanyautomotive industrypaderbornhidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views 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