UniTrain Course – Most Bus – Optical Data Buses for Automotive Applications

ABOUT THIS PRODUCT:

Currently, optical bus systems are primarily used for multimedia systems with high data rates in luxury vehicles. Due to the greater amount of data processing needed in vehicles, such systems are becoming more widespread. Therefore, present-day trainees are likely to encounter the subject very often in their future careers. Consequently, our training system teaches the physical fundamentals of the topic as well as training students in practical diagnostics. The training system itself is an emulation of a full-scale optical fibre transmission network as used in vehicles plus a display and attenuation meter. It also features an optical gauge to detect characteristic distortion effects in optical fibres as well as for investigation of coupling losses at splices along a optical fibre transmission line.

Course contents:

• Data networks in motor vehicles
• Reasons for increasing use of optical fibres in motor vehicles
• Digital transmission of letters and characters
• Fundamentals of a MOST bus
• MOST protocol
• MOST controllers
• MOST ring
• Diagnosing ring interruptions
• Design of optical fibre systems in motor vehicles
• Optical bus systems in motor vehicles
• Optical characteristics of light
• Basics of ray geometrics (refraction, reflection)
• Experimental determination of properties (attenuation) of optical fibres
• Investigation of optical fibres (electrical and optical) by measurement
• Course duration 6 h approx.

Includes:

• Optical gauge
  • Width of air gap adjustable via fine thread screws
  • Sideways adjustment at splice via fine thread screws
  • Dimensions: 50 x 50 x 80 mm, (H x D x W)
• Optical fibre 2.2 mm
• Original MOST optical fibres
• Simple optical fibre cutter