Ethernet TSN (Time-Sensitive Networking) is profoundly reshaping automotive and industrial communications. TSN can be seen as a “toolbox” of 15+ protocols on top of Ethernet. In particular, TSN includes a growing set of Quality-of-Service (QoS) protocols such as IEEE802.1Qav (i.e., “Credit-Based Shaper”) and IEEE802.1Qbv (i.e., “Time-Aware Shaper”) that go well beyond traffic class priorities and VLANs.
If TSN opens up a wealth of possibilities to meet in an effective manner the diverse real-time and safety requirements of automotive and industrial communications, it also raises a number of questions:
Topology of an production cells made up of two interconnected machines and topology of an automotive TSN networks
Prerequisites: the training is targeted at engineers with some prior knowledge of real-time communication (e.g, CAN network) and basic knowledge of Switched Ethernet network. This training does not assume any prior experience neither with TSN nor with modeling and perfomance evaluation tools.
To answers those questions, based on RTaW’s years of practical experiences in the design of TSN networks with leading OEMs in the automotive and aerospace and RTaW’s participation in the TSN standardization – RTaW staff was editor of a TSN standard (IEEE P802.1Qcw) and secretary of the aerospace profile standard (IEEE P802.DP) – we now offer a training on TSN with the following objectives: