Drivven Inc Information

Drivven, Inc, of San Antonio, Texas, has provided automotive control and data acquisition solutions for research and production applications since 2003. Drivven's partnership with National Instruments has led to a new standard of engine and vehicle electronics development systems. These systems combine Drivven's automotive electronics design expertise with National Instruments' cutting edge software and hardware products such as LabVIEW, LabVIEW Real-Time targeted to PXI and cRIO computing systems, RIO enabled hardware featuring FPGA technology for critical timing of digital I/O, high speed analog I/O, and signal conditioning. The Drivven team has drawn on years of FPGA-based automotive electronics experience to create a toolkit of hardware I/O modules and software for RIO covering a wide variety of engine management tasks such as engine position tracking and engine synchronous fuel and spark control. The underlying IP cores of these VIs can be ported directly to production FPGA-based engine management systems. Using the latest National Instruments products, Drivven provides full authority engine control, analysis and display capabilities. In real-time, the system can call models written in LabVIEW, C and MATLAB (Simulink / Stateflow). It can also simultaneously perform combustion analysis and feedback for next-cycle control algorithms. This eliminates the difficult task of synchronizing recorded data and control parameters between multiple stand-alone systems. Practical turn-key systems not only require software and computing power, but also sensors, actuators, drive electronics, wiring harnesses, and the expertise to bring it all together. Drivven can provide custom, turn-key development systems in customer test cells or provide engine and vehicle toolkits for every level of engine development.