Research on Communication Controller between FlexRay and Modbus

Author

Hui, Li ; Hao, Zhang ; Fei, Xia ; Wen, Huang

Author_Institution

Coll. of Electr. Power & Autom. Eng., Shanghai Univ. of Electr. Power, Shanghai, China

fYear

2009

fDate

3-5 April 2009

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

76

Abstract

This paper presents a communication controller between the FlexRay and Modbus protocols for embedded systems. FlexRay is a kind of high speed bus technology, which has high performance and high reliability. Modus is a mature fieldbus technology, which is widely used on industrial field. The communication controller is based on a 16 bit MCU platform, with XGATE as its coprocessor, which provides FlexRay interface and Modbus interface, and realizes bidirectional transceiving data. The data flow between the modules is controlled by an application specific gateway unit that provides all control signals. The communication controller will play a major role in different industrial applications continuously.

Keywords

field buses; routing protocols; FlexRay; Modbus; application specific gateway unit; bidirectional transceiving data; communication controller; embedded systems; high speed bus technology; mature fieldbus technology; protocol conversion; Automatic control; Circuits; Communication industry; Communication system control; Control systems; Electrical equipment industry; Field buses; Industrial control; Instruments; Protocols; Communication Controller; FlexRay; Modbus; Protocol Conversion; XGATE;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Acquisition and Processing, 2009. ICSAP 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3594-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSAP.2009.33

Filename

5163828