October 15, 2026 · Ramesh Praveenkumar
FMI packages a simulation model as an FMU that more than 290 tools can run. What is inside an FMU, how co-simulation works between communication points, what FMI 3.0 added, and how the new layered standard for network communication connects models to the buses.
October 10, 2026 · Ramesh Praveenkumar
MIL-STD-1553B puts one bus controller in charge of a dual-redundant 1 Mbit/s bus: it commands, and the remote terminals respond within microseconds. How the words and transfers work, with an animation of the Manchester signal and a retry on the second bus.
October 7, 2026 · Ramesh Praveenkumar
Detailed multibody vehicle models have usually stayed offline. With bounded solvers, careful partitioning and a deterministic platform, models with more than 800 degrees of freedom run in hard real time.
October 2, 2026 · Ramesh Praveenkumar
AFDX, ARINC 664 Part 7, makes switched Ethernet deterministic and redundant for avionics: virtual links with a fixed bandwidth allocation gap, switches that police them and two independent networks. With an animation of shaping, redundancy and policing.
September 29, 2026 · Ramesh Praveenkumar
ARINC 429 has carried data between avionics units since 1978: one transmitter, up to twenty receivers and 32-bit words in a self-clocking return-to-zero code. How a word is built and sent, with an animation that follows every bit.
September 23, 2026 · Ramesh Praveenkumar
A driver-in-the-loop simulator lets test drivers judge a vehicle while it is still a model. What the system has to do in real time, and how a chassis team can use one to choose a steering and handling setup.
September 18, 2026 · Ramesh Praveenkumar
SOME/IP lets ECUs on automotive Ethernet offer services, find each other, subscribe to events and call methods. How service discovery works and what the 16-byte header carries, with an animation that shows every byte.
September 15, 2026 · Ramesh Praveenkumar
FlexRay gives every node a fixed slot in a repeating cycle, on two channels at up to 10 Mbit/s each. How the static and dynamic segments share the cycle, what a frame carries, and what a test rig has to do to join the schedule.
September 8, 2026 · Ramesh Praveenkumar
LIN connects the small ECUs behind doors, wipers and headlights with one wire and one commander working through a schedule table. How a LIN frame is built, with an animation drawn bit by bit.
September 1, 2026 · Ramesh Praveenkumar
A CAN bus has no master and no addresses, yet two transmitters never collide. How identifiers decide who sends, what a classical frame carries and what CAN FD changes, with one animation encoded bit for bit and one drawn to scale.