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Rollout of the "nb08" Racing Car from TUfast
TUfast launches its new nb08 racing car - supported by TRACE32
Hofolding, August 2008 - In November 2002, a team of students from the mechanical engineering faculty of TU Muenchen, one of the top technical universities in Germany, launched the TUfast project.
Promising engineers have the opportunity to develop a racing car under real conditions for the international Formula SAE competition for student members of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). This project challenges students from different
universities to construct a racing-car prototype and to transfer everything they have learned into practice before starting out on their careers. The competition not only judges the speed of the racing car, but also safety, design, and budget control, as
well as track performance and fuel consumption. The track-worthiness of the car is then put to the test over a distance of 22 km in an international racing competition, in which up to one hundred teams compete.
Lauterbach has been supporting the development of the TUfast racing car with the TRACE32 In-Circuit Debugger since early 2007. TRACE32 is used for various microcontrollers depending on the areas of application, for example, for the multi-functional
steering wheel, which uses this technology to debug the Freescale S12XF, and additionally in the engine control unit for the MPC5633M. With regard to the vehicle dynamics of the winning nb07 racer, TRACE32 has already served the Infineon Tricore
Controller well.
After achieving an outstanding third place at Formula SAE Michigan in mid-May with the nb07 racing car and the recent rollout of its successor, the nb08, TUfast had every reason to celebrate with friends and sponsors on the TU Muenchen grounds a few
weeks ago. Lauterbach congratulates the team on this successful event and wishes the students fast and steady results on the racing track and along their career paths.
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