TSN evaluation kit for industrial and automotive applications

Innovasic has launched a Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) evaluation kit based on its fido5000 REM Switch technology. The kit contains everything needed to evaluate the features of the emerging IEEE 802.1 TSN standards. The kit is pre-installed with the most mature TSN features starting with 802.1AS and 802.1Qbv. As TSN standards evolve, new features will be made available as free downloads through Innovasic’s Developer Portal. The TSN standards that will be supported by future updates to the kit are: - 802.1AS, AS-REV – Time Synchronization - 802.1Qbv – Scheduled Traffic (updates) - 802.1Qci – Ingress Policing - 802.1CB – Seamless Redundancy - 802.1Qcc – Centralized Configuration - and 802.1bu – Pre-emption. Evaluation of TSN is simplified by using the kit as a TSN gateway. Ethernet enabled devices can be plugged into the kit’s standard Ethernet port and the other two ports are plugged into a TSN network. The TSN gateway is then configured to send and receive TSN streams over the TSN network based messages to and from the standard Ethernet device. In this way, a standard Ethernet device can talk to any other TSN-enabled device on a TSN network, says the company. “Innovasic’s TSN Evaluation Kit provides a path to full TSN Ethernet that developers can access now”, said Volker Goller, Innovasic’s European manager for real-time Ethernet. “The easy updates to our kit allow users to continuously evaluate TSN and determine how best to add value to their future products and system architectures.”0 2016 IEEE Standards Association Ethernet & IP, Automotive Technology Day, Paris, September 20th and 21st. Also, 2016 Congress Industrial Ethernet TSN, Stuttgart, September 27th.