AGRITECHNICA ELECTRONICS
TTCONTROL
Laying the foundations
110 iVTInternational.com September 2019
November 10-16, 2019
TTControl
Hall 17, Stand H21
SUPPORTING NEW AND INNOVATIVE OEMS WITH THE BEST CONTROLLER
EQUIPMENT POSSIBLE SUPPORTS THE INDUSTRY AND HELPS IT FLOURISH
Today, agricultural vehicle and implement
manufacturers need to incorporate more and
more electronic devices and components into their
machinery in order to increase efficiency and
productivity, while at the same time reducing fossil
fuel dependency and pollutant emissions. To meet these
challenges, OEMs expect complete solutions rather than
single products from their suppliers.
OEMs face changing and increasing requirements
regarding functional safety and must handle them
adequately. An updated EN ISO 25119:2018 will be
harmonized soon and will replace the current EN
16590:2014 as the safety standard for control systems
in tractors and agricultural machinery.
Also, ISOBUS (ISO 11783:2017) developed into
an industry-standard communication protocol for
agricultural equipment manufacturers that allows
tractors, implements and electronic equipment to
communicate with each other independently of
their manufacturers.
New controllers
TTControl – a joint-venture company of TTTech and
HYDAC International – is a proven leader in functional
safety, offering safety certified software and hardware
platforms. The implemented solutions enable
equipment manufacturers to develop highly reliable
electronic control systems quickly and economically,
reducing development time and risks.
In order to meet the aforementioned requirements
specifically asked for by agricultural machinery
manufacturers, TTControl’s high-end and field-proven
HY-TTC 500 controller family was recently expanded
by two more electronic controllers named HY-TTC
508 and HY-TTC 590.
The new ECUs quickly became important
components in agricultural machinery designs,
especially for implement-ECUs as they fulfill the EN
ISO 25119 AgPL d safety requirements and comply with
the ISOBUS standard (listed in the Agricultural Industry
Electronics Foundation (AEF) compatibility database).
Also, the flash size on the HY-TTC 590 was increased
to 32MB to provide enough storage capacity for the
continuously growing size of the ISOBUS object pools
where all the graphical elements to be displayed by
the ISOBUS Virtual Terminal installed in the tractor
are stored.
A 100BASE-T1 BroadR-Reach interface is available
on both new devices. 100BASE-T1 BroadR-Reach is
the evolution of traditional Ethernet, using unshielded
single twisted pair cable that helps to reduce
ABOVE: The HY-TTC
500 controller family
enables greater fertilizer
application control
connectivity costs and cabling weight. Its 100Mbit/s
allow much higher data throughput between
different electronic devices compared to traditional
CAN interfaces and recently introduced CAN-FD
standard. The 100BASE-T1 interface is also available
for debugging and application download, reducing
the time needed during the application development
process or machine installation and commissioning
stages significantly.
Featuring a powerful ARM dual-core lockstep,
a rich set of communication interfaces along with
an integrated real time clock, the new controllers
can handle complex demands often used in
agricultural applications.
Customer applications
As a customer of HYDAC International, the engineers at
Maschio Gaspardo chose the new HY-TTC 508 controller
among the models of the HY-TTC 500 controller family.
This was due to the real time clock and a larger storage
capacity of Flash and EEPROM, which are essential
features for higher-level ISOBUS applications.
The Maschio Gaspardo group uses TTControl’s
electronic controllers for all new products that require
ISOBUS compliance and functional safety capabilities.
This includes the Primo series, a mounted implement
commonly used for spreading fertilizer. All machine
operations, from work to comfort functions, are
electronically controlled, increasing effectiveness,
precision and efficiency in every use case.
The electronic models of Primo implement a variable
rate technology (VRT) that enables the application
of fertilizer at a precise rate, time and position. It is
designed to reduce wastage and increase yields from
the same size of land in compliance with the regulation.
These benefits are provided to the end user by means
of the ISOBUS technology through the TC-BAS, TC-GEO
and TC-SC functionalities that have been implemented
on the HY-TTC 508 controller.
Supporting innovative OEMs
TTControl’s product portfolio also includes mid-
and small-size electronic controllers and I/O modules,
rugged operator interfaces and connectivity solutions
ready for advanced future use cases.
Vision 3 – TTControl’s latest generation of powerful
rugged operator interfaces – as well as TTConnect 616,
an advanced connectivity device that combines and
manages all in-vehicle communication interfaces such
as CAN-FD, LIN and 100BASE-T1 BroadR-Reach, also fulfill
the ISOBUS standard compliance regulations.
TTControl’s engineering services support customers
in fast and efficient software application development.
TTControl offers high levels of quality, safety and
performance for innovative mobile machinery.
Relying on proven partnerships, customers gain
the flexibility and agility necessary to respond to specific
market requirements. Visit TTControl at Agritechnica at
booth H21 in hall 17, where the company’s experts will
provide more detailed descriptions and showcases of
TTControl’s complete product portfolio. iVT
By Lucian Badescu, product manager ECU portfolio
at TTControl GmbH
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