MoBIES Automotive Powertrain Open Experimental Platform

Ford 3.0L V6 engine on dynamometer test stand

Introduction to Engine Management

Bosch Handbook description of basic concepts of engine management
Bosch Handbook description of Bosch Motronic, a representative modern powertrain controller
Haynes manual description of the Ford EEC-V, present on the Ford Taurus Engine
Description of Powertrain Control functions - very draft-y at present...

Platform Documentation

Powertrain OEP Overview
Dynamometer System Selection
Controller Hardware and Operating System Selection
Documentation on EEC-V I/O
5/15/00 - Stavros Tripakis: Summary of OSEK/VDX Operating System Specification 2.1
4/24/00 - Mark Wilcutts: Powertrain Control Embedded Software Development - Motor Company Approaches and UCB Testbed Selection Issues
4/24/00 - Per Tunestal: VDL Engine Control Test Stand: Real-Time Issues

Manufacturer Documentation for Hardware and Software

MPC555 and Eval boards
- Motorola MPC555 Microcontroller
- Motorola EVB555 Evaluation Board for MPC555
- ETAS ES200 page - manufacturer of EVB555
- Motorola "32-bit Microcontroller Architecture Selection for Engine Management Systems"
- Motorola 68HC08 8-bit Microcontroller
- Motorola Automotive Product Selector Guide, Q2/2001
OSEK Operating Systems
- OSEK homepage "Offene Systeme und deren Schnittstellen für die Elektronik im Kraftfahrzeug" (Open systems and interfaces for automotive electronics).
  "Aiming at an industry standard for an open-ended architecture for distributed control units in vehicles"
- Wind River's OSEKWorks RTOS
- Wind River's Tornado for OSEKWorks
- Tornado for OSEKWorks Supported Targets
- Motorola Documentation: Motorola OSEK
- Motorola Presentation (from above web page): Motorola OSEK Product Offerings
- Realogy Real-Time Architect suite: SSX5 realtime kernel, Time Compiler schedulability analysis tool, OSEK API layer
Mathworks
- 2/20/2001 - Wind River/MathWorks partnership will include integrating Real-Time Workshop and OSEKWorks!
- Mathworks Global Automotive Engineering Seminar - Presentations Dealing with modeling and software configuration tools by folks from Ford, Toyota, Daimler-Benz, Chrysler NREL, SwRI.
- Mathworks' Press Release: "The MathWorks and Delphi Delco Electronics Systems Join Forces to Define and Develop Tools for Automotive Production ECU Development"
- Mathworks Real-Time Workshop User's Guide - mentions the implementation of OSEK supported as Lynx Embedded OSEK (LE/O)
- Sysgo.de's page describing Lynx Emulated OSEK (LE/O)
Driver electronics and boards

Industry Links and Press Releases

Motorola