Audi to show Le Mans-winning race car and new diesel TT at congress

Audi believes that low fuel consumption and high performance are in no way contradictory. To illustrate this point, the company will display its three times Le Mans-winning R10TDI sports car on its stand at FISITA 2008.

The R10 sports car wrote an entirely new chapter in motor sport; becoming the first diesel-powered car to win the classic 24 hour race. Its 5.5 litre V12 diesel generates over 650bhp, taking it to a top speed of around 330 km/h. It generates over 1100Nm of torque — significantly more than equivalent petrol engines.

The company will also be showing the new TT 2.0 TDI. Both cars are examples of clean, efficient, state-of-the-art diesel technology. Audi's Dagmar Schnelle explained that the company views motor sport as a 'development lab' for road vehicles.

She added that by 2012 Audi's efficiency strategy, including the development of its clean TDI engines, will reduce the CO2 emissions of its vehicles by a further 20 per cent while still taking their sporting character up a notch or two.

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Tata Motors to present job opportunities

Tata Motors will be attending the FISITA Congress for the first time in Munich. Sachin Narke, Divisional Manager Human Resources at Tata Motors' Engineering Research Centre in Pune, explained the company wanted to be at FISITA 2008 to raise awareness of the Tata brand in Europe, as well as presenting many new job opportunities and attracting fresh engineering talent.

He said: "We are delighted to be working with a prestigious name like FISITA, and know that being at FISITA 2008 will help make the Tata name better known in Europe." Mr Narke will be attending the congress along with other senior Tata executives.

the development of its clean TDI engines, will reduce the CO2 emissions of it's vehicles by a further 20 per cent while still taking their sporting character up a notch or two.

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Dana shows off its latest Fuel Cell technologies

Dana, a world leader in the supply of axles, driveshafts and structural, sealing and thermal-management products, will have a number of innovative new technologies to show at FISITA 2008, including:

• Its own fuel cell products; featuring fuel processor components, stack components and thermal-management systems
• Spicer AdvanTEK axles for front and rear applications which improve torque density, noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) and energy efficiency
• Spicer Life Series propshafts for commercial and light vehicles, which reduce weight and improve durability
• Long thermal products including oil coolers and heat exchangers that help improve fuel economy and emissions, and assist in extending the life of a vehicle's engine and other systems
• Victor Reinz cylinder head and exhaust gaskets which reduce oil consumption and emissions.

Finally, the company's Director of European Fuel Cell Activities Dr Raimund Stroebel will give a Poster Presentation on Wednesday 17 September entitled The Metallic Bipolar Plate — A Key Component for Automotive Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (PEFC) On The Way to Successful Commercialisation.

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Wind River and Intel team up to create new open source Linux platform

Wind River Systems Inc, industry leaders in device software optimisation, have announced a new collaboration with Intel Corporation to create an open source Linux platform for the automotive industry.

The open source platform will be optimised for the Intel Atom processor, which was introduced in April and which is ideally suited for in-vehicle infotainment solutions that demand connected multimedia and graphics intensive application support, operating at low power.

As part of a major new strategy for the sector, Wind River will make available specification and code from the platform to the open source community soon through a new in-vehicle infotainment section on www.moblin.org.

The Moblin web site is a community facility for software vendors and Linux users to collaborate, share solutions and contribute code.

Companies such as BMW Group, Bosch, Delphi and Magneti Marelli are actively supporting Wind River's strategy to drive Linux into the automotive infotainment market.

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In2Soft introduces its newest developments

In2Soft introduces a completely new ODX optimized binary format enabling high performance execution of In2Soft's MCD-3D server, called VisualODX RuntimeSystem.

This innovative format uses the structures of ODX to reduce data redundancy and provide modularity allowing partial conversion of binary data (e.g. communication parameter). Additionally, the format is optimized for execution by eliminating the transformation step usually necessary between data and runtime objects.

The new binary format used by In2Soft's MCD-3D server requires less memory and reduces drastically conversion and process time. Therefore test systems using the ODX optimized MCD-3D runtime can handle large diagnostic data projects easily and meet tough performance requirements for use cases such as parallel communication.

Also showing at the In2Soft booth is The AxcessBox, In2Soft's new High Performance Communication Platform used for various car2x or wireless applications, e.g. wireless diagnostics for field tests or vehicle localisation for fleet management.

It provides WPA2 encoded wireless access, as well as CAN, LAN, Serial RS232 on a Linux 2.6 platform — a second CAN, K-Line and FlexRay are currently being planned. For diagnostic interfacing an MVCI D-PDU-API (ISO22900-2) is integrated supporting KWP2000, UDS, ISO TP and TP1.6/2.0 protocols.

In2Soft is also involved in the newest developments for eCall Systems; the eCall TestBench will be available for evaluation directly after FISITA 2008 on In2Soft's website. Although the European Union has yet to finalise the technical details of the emergency system, many OEMs and system suppliers have started implementing and testing prototypes. With the eCall TestBench, In2Soft is now providing the back end of an eCall system to allow customers to test the functionality of their applications.

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ITI shows the world's first 1D/3D simulation tool at FISITA 2008

If you ever wanted to incorporate hydraulic or pneumatic suspension components, a detailed gearbox model, or sophisticated controls in your favourite MBS simulation environment, ITI could have the answer.

The company will be showing at FISITA 2008 its SimulationX 3.0 package — the world's first fully integrated 1D/3D simulation tool.

SimulationX allows the combination of 1D and MBS models into one simulation model. This allows users to choose the degree of detail for each model part independently, according to the necessary task. SimulationX offers users the following benefits:

• Sophisticated and validated libraries for automotive power transmission and fluid power applications
• Versatile MBS and vehicle dynamics libraries
• Multi-domain modelling within one model, avoiding the pitfalls of co-simulation
• Numerical solvers, tailored for multiphysics systems
• Straightforward model object development for customer libraries
• Nonlinear frequency-domain simulation (steady-state), natural frequency and system analysis
• Generic model export and import in terms of C code for model exchange with other simulators and real-time environments.

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