PAGE 30 Imagine a combustion engine where each cylinder can be fi red variably or skipped to provide the torque demanded by the driver. The engineers at Tula Technology, headquartered in Silicon Valley, have made this vision a reality and are expecting a series production with several OEMs. CUSTOMERS TULA Firing Order Firing Order Dynamic dSPACE Magazine 1/2015 · © dSPACE GmbH, Paderborn, Germany · info@dspace.com · www.dspace.comPAGE 31 TULA D >> ynamic skip fi re (DSF) is the name of the new technology at Tula. By deciding if and when each individual cylinder is ignited, DSF enables a particularly effi cient engine operation. The en- gine control determines the num- ber and sequence of cylinders that need to be fi red in order to provide the required torque (fi gure 1). Dynami

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