AEK-COM-10BASET

AEK-COM-10BASET is a 10BASE-T1S MAC-PHY evaluation board. This is a powerful tool to explore various vehicle network architectures, leveraging on new 10BASE-T1S automotive Ethernet protocol implementation and other on-board legacy automotive interfaces (CAN, CAN-FD and SPI). This board merges the innovations brought by the new 10BASE-T1S specification with high-performance dual-core SPC58EC80E5 chorus family MCU. It meets requirements of new megatrends in automotive industry, such as personalization, electrification, autonomy, full connectivity, which are moving in-vehicle networks away from domain-based solutions, gravitating towards new zonal architectures. The 10BASE-T1S automotive Ethernet enhances IVN architectures by connecting sensors, car body and infotainment ECUs. This protocol supports half/full-duplex communication, allowing either point-to-point direct connection between two nodes, or use of multidrop topology with up-to-eight nodes connected on a single 25m bus segment.

• 2x 10BASE-T1S ports: 1x port with PHY-MAC transceiver, 1x port with PHY transceiver
• The two transceivers are connected with the main board SPC58EC80E5 MCU
• 10BASE-T1S according to standard protocol: up to 10Mbit/s data transferred over single pair of wires
• Physical layer collision avoidance (PLCA), CSMA/CD) media access control
• SPSB0813 automotive power management IC (PMIC) with CAN-FD transceiver
• JTAG integrated programmer and debugger, 1 connector for I2C/UART serial communication
• 5 CAN-FD transceivers, wake up and reset buttons, 2 general-purpose connectors (8 pins each)
• 2 SPI ports, reverse battery-protection dedicated circuit, compact size: 110mm x 100mm
• L5963 integrated DC-DC converter for potential system supply, Included in the AutoDevKit ecosystem
• One plug connector to plug in an eventual daughter board, a power distribution unit (PDU)