Industrial Communication Systems

44-6 Industrial Communication Systems

number of attempts will elongate the startup time. Figure 44.6 along with Table 44.1 depicts some exam-

ples

that

illustrate

the

eect

of

sync

node

distribution

on

the

system

behavior

when

either

a

fault

aects

one

branch (i) or the star-coupler (ii).

All

these

issues

have

to

be

considered

when

determining

the

large

number

of

conguration

param-

eters

and

constants

of

the

FlexRay

protocol

for

an

actual

cluster

implementation.

Here,

proper

planning

and

tool support are of utmost importance.

44.4.2 AUTOSAR

In practice, when designing a cluster that shall be built with hardware and soware from dierent ven-

dors, ...