Medium, Topology and Transport of the FlexRay Signal
Dominique Paret · 2012
This chapter is about everything to do with transporting the signal between two participants of the network. It is divided into two large parts. The first part deals separately with the medium, to define its qualities, performance and limitations. The second part concerns, more particularly, on the one hand the topological aspects and possibilities which FlexRay offers to the structure of a network, and on the other hand the electrical and functional consequences of these possibilities. The chapter discusses the various aspects of the topology of a network and their effects on the quality of the transmitted and received signal. To do this, the chapter examines all the aspects involved in the routing of the signal, from its production to the validation of its binary value. The chapter also examines the large families of possible links between participants of a network. Controlled Vocabulary Terms network topology