Technica Engineering’s MediaConverters are compact and reliable devices for Automotive Etherrnet development and testing activities. These hardware tools establish a physical layer conversion between electronic control units (ECUs) with Automotive Ethernet interfaces and devices with a standard Ethernet interface, like PC Network Interface Cards with RJ-45 connector or Ethernet Switches. Additionally, MediaConverters TE-1405 and TE-1406 support the MACsec technology implemented in hardware, allowing MACsec to run at full speed, up to 1Gpbs.
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MediaConverters can be statically configured for standalone operation but also controlled remotely for dynamic operation.
Standalone operation is defined via 4x DIP switches for basic configuration of the device:
DIP Switch 1: Master/Slave
DIP Switch 2: 100/1000 Mbps
DIP Switch 3: IEEE-/Legacy-mode (TE-1402/TE-1403)
DIP Switch 3: Autosearch ON/OFF (TE-1405/TE-1406)
DIP Switch 4: Frame Generator (ON/OFF)
Finally for advanced use cases, to control remotely the operation or additional debugging purposes, there is a serial interface (console), which is accessible through micro USB-B connector. This interface enables the users to read TX/RX register counters, SQI values of the channels, CRC errors, and other information as well as dynamically change the MediaConverters configuration overriding DIP switches. It can also be used for Firmware updates of the device.
For MediaConverter variants TE-1405 and TE-1406 is offered possibility to use WEB GUI PC application for more user-friendly configuration options.
MediaConverters transmit data frames directly from the physical layer 100 or 1000BASE-T1 and the physical layer 100BASE-TX or 1000BASE-T, with a deterministic and constant delay of approximately 2 microseconds.
Technica Engineering’s MediaConverters can be used on the development desk and even in harsh vehicle environments. These devices are adapted for continuous operation in Testbenches, which also corresponds temperature range in which they can work and their robust casing.
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