Product Highlights

HILBOX Fx uses an FPGA-based interface to connect directly to DIO and fast 16-bit analog converter and signal conditioning modules. High speed FPGA-based IO can be controlled directly by SIMULINK models running between 35 and 150 microseconds on a standard PC processor. Complex models and signal processing functions can also be developed with SIMULINK and a XILINX System Generator and downloaded to an FPGA processor to execute models with time steps below 500 nanoseconds. A rich library of IO functions and power electronic drive with PMSM motor models will be available for HILBOX Fx users in the first half of 2008.

HILBOX Fx can be configured as a rapid control prototyping (RCP) system interfaced with physical hardware systems through the use of Opal-RT OP5000 series IO products to test control algorithms used in automotive, aerospace and industrial applications. An extensive array of available professional hardware and software components enables HILBOX FX to be configured as a high-performance HIL simulation system directly interfaced with pre-production electronic control units or RCP.

In addition to HILBOX Fx , Opal-RT xPC-enabled HIL systems are available in a variety of chassis configurations including the rugged and robust Micro-Box from TeraSoft Inc. Providers of system integration services and hardware solutions, Taiwan-based Terasoft is also a Mathworks and Opal-RT technology partner.

A number of HILBOX Fx software options will be available from Opal-RT including:

• RT-EVENTS blockset compatible with SIMULINK to generate and capture events occurring between the main model time steps and to implement dynamic models having states changing based on external events (available Q1, 2008)

• XSGeDRIVE Library of ready-to-used IGBT converters and PMSM motor model executed on OP5130 FPGA boards with time step below 500 nanoseconds and event stamping at 10 nanoseconds. (available Q2, 2008)

• ORCHESTRA xPC: Publish and Subscribe interface enabling the interconnection of several xPC RCP systems to complex mechanical and electrical plant models implemented with SimPowerSystems and multi-processor RT-LAB eDRIVEsim and eMEGAsim systems. (available Q2, 2008)