Effective December 31, 2010, Drivven, Inc is acquired by National Instruments. Read more...

Drivven, Inc, of San Antonio, Texas, has provided automotive control and data acquisition solutions for research and production applications since 2003.  Drivven’s partnership with National Instruments has led to a new standard of engine and vehicle electronics development systems.  These systems combine Drivven’s automotive electronics design expertise with National Instruments’ cutting edge software and hardware products such as LabVIEW, LabVIEW Real-Time targeted to PXI and cRIO computing systems, RIO enabled hardware featuring FPGA technology for critical timing of digital I/O, high speed analog I/O, and signal conditioning.

The Drivven team has drawn on years of FPGA-based automotive electronics experience to create a toolkit of hardware I/O modules and software for RIO covering a wide variety of engine management tasks such as engine position tracking and engine synchronous fuel and spark control.  The underlying IP cores of these VIs can be ported directly to production FPGA-based engine management systems.

Using the latest National Instruments products, Drivven provides full authority engine control, analysis and display capabilities.  In real-time, the system can call models written in LabVIEW, C and MATLAB (Simulink / Stateflow).  It can also simultaneously perform combustion analysis and feedback for next-cycle control algorithms.  This eliminates the difficult task of synchronizing recorded data and control parameters between multiple stand-alone systems.

Practical turn-key systems not only require software and computing power, but also sensors, actuators, drive electronics, wiring harnesses, and the expertise to bring it all together.  Drivven can provide custom, turn-key development systems in customer test cells or provide engine and vehicle toolkits for every level of engine development.

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Meet the Drivven Executive Team

Carroll Dase, President
	Carroll is a founding partner of Drivven and serves as President and CEO.  He received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas in 1995.  Carroll has worked in the automotive engineering industry since 1995.  Carroll spent five years at Southwest Research Institute performing automotive fuel and lubricant testing and building custom engine research control systems.  He spent 1 year with Motorola writing automotive control software and then consulted on a wide variety of automotive controls projects until starting Drivven in 2003.
Matthew Viele, Vice President of Engineering
	Matt Viele is a founding partner of Drivven and serves as Vice President of Engineering.  He received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Oklahoma in 1996.  He received his MS degree in Computer Science from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 2000.  He is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University.   Matt has worked in the automotive engineering industry since 1996.  Matt spent five years at Southwest Research Institute building custom engine research control systems.  He spent 4 years with Woodward Governor Company designing production engine control systems and conducting research in several areas.