Segger: Case Study

Forze Hydrogen Racing — Pole position thanks to SEGGER

Forze Hydrogen Racing is a student team whose mission is to show the potential of green energy — specifically hydrogen energy — through the design, production and racing of fuel cell powered vehicles. In less than 13 years, the team has evolved from building hydrogen go-karts to full-size LMP3-based hydrogen electric racing cars — supported by hard- and software from SEGGER.

You can find more about the team and the car itself at the end of the article.

Forze’s software department has two main projects: Programming the car’s embedded systems and the telemetry of all data generated by the car.

The embedded system’s job is to collect and transport all data produced by various sensors for processing and to control the actuators — effectively making the car drive.

SEGGER, with its vast industry expertise, is an integral partner in the embedded systems project and provides tools to design and build the syste

The development team uses J-Link debug probes provided by SEGGER to flash and debug nodes. The architecture of the car and the individual nodes and their function will be described in detail later…