TTTech develops TTP simulation model

TTP-Simulate allows the concurrent engineering and reliable integration of networked systems in large programs.

This is said to result in considerable cost reductions and shorter development and test cycles.

TTP-Simulate is available as a PCI or a PMC card format.

System integration and concurrent engineering are crucial for the success of complex programs and systems, according to the company.

With TTP-Simulate, a complex TTP system can be simulated and verified without being set up in real hardware.

TTP is a communication protocol for the design of fault-tolerant, distributed, hard real-time systems with clean definition of key system interfaces.

TTP-Simulate can be used for hardware-in-the-loop simulation and acceptance testing.

An optional Labview interface allows the integration of TTP-Simulate into the Labview testing environment.

Interface drivers are provided for different operating systems.

Using these boards, up to 16 nodes with control applications can be simulated in a high-end PC.

One or more TTP-Simulate PCI cards can be plugged into the PCI sockets of a PC.

The TTP-Simulate PMC card can be integrated into various standard modules using a PMC adapter.

Every card represents a partial TTP system.

The PCI version features four embedded Freescale MPC555 PowerPC cores for simulating four TTP nodes.

The PMC card features one embedded Freescale MPC5567 PowerPC core.

The main interface of the hardware component is provided by a dual-ported RAM (DPRAM).

All messages received are available in the DPRAM.

TTP-Simulate supports LynuxOS, Linux, Windows and Labview RTOS.

An API interface is provided for extracting and processing data in custom software.