November 15, 2012 In an environment where for cars it becomes essential to be "connected", the automotive industry is confronted with a growing dilemma: The design cycle of everything inside the vehicle that falls under the category "classic car technology" is significantly slower than the design cycle for consumer electronics which are brought into the vehicles by their users. These devices are not necessarily an integral part of the cars but in many cases they are providing the connectivity function for the vehicles. Read more

November 8, 2012 The upcoming Autosar version 4.11, due in the first quarter of 2013 will include support for multicore processors and Ethernet. In an interview with EE Times Europe, the new Autosar spokesperson Stefan Schmerler explained what currently drives the automotive software standard framework. Read more

October 18, 2012 Recently Audi has introduced the latest model of its A3 compact car. As the first vehicle in serial production he A3 employs the current version of the MOST infotainment data bus, MOST150. Read more

October 17, 2012 At the VDI congress on automotive electronics in Baden-Baden (Germany), top engineers and strategists from the automotive value chain discussed current and future technology trends in this industry. Conference chairman Wolfgang Runge named the three most essential trends currently driving the development of next-gen vehicles. Read more

August 27, 2012 A new member of the OPEN Alliance SIG (One Pair EtherNet Alliance Special Interest Group), Vector Informatik has launched BroadR-Reach, an Ethernet-based communications technology for motor vehicles. Read more

March 21, 2012 When these days the latest version of the MOST infotainment bus, MOST150, enters serial production, it also brings Ethernet to the infotainment domain. The reason: MOST150 contains a full Ethernet channel which meets the IEEE802.x standards. Read more

February 13, 2012 At the fourth MOST Forum on March 20, 2012 in Stuttgart/Esslingen (Germany), the MOST Cooperation (MOSTCO) will again participate as knowledge partner and exhibitor to showcase the latest technology highlights. The theme of this year's exhibit is 'MOST150 Rolls Off the Line', describing the third generation of MOST Technology hitting the road in 2012. Read more

January 17, 2012 FPGA manufacturer Xilinx has demonstrated at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the world's first Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based Ethernet Audio/Video Bridging (EAVB) network implementation optimized for carrying high-speed data traffic within the automobile. Read more

December 14, 2011 Communications chip vendor Broadcom Corporation has introduced a broad automotive Ethernet portfolio, engineered to meet the rigorous qualifications and demands of the automotive semiconductor market. Broadcom's BroadR-Reach automotive portfolio delivers high-performance bandwidth of 100Mbps and beyond while dramatically reducing connectivity costs up to 80 % and cabling weight as much as 30 %, the company claims. Read more

December 7, 2011 The fourth MOST Forum on March 20, 2012 in Stuttgart/Esslingen (Germany) will celebrate a significant milestone of MOST Technology: with MOST150, the third MOST generation will go into series in 2012. However, MOST stakeholders are facing increased competition from Ethernet as a standard for in-car networking, even in the infotainment domain which hitherto is regarded as the stronghold for the MOST technology. Read more

November 30, 2011 Automotive supplier Continental AG has provided details regarding the roll-out of Ethernet as the technology for in-car networking. The company also announced plans to replace MOST as the current infotainment networking technology by Ethernet. Read more

November 9, 2011 The trend towards the deployment of Ethernet in for in-vehicle networking (IVN) is gaining further momentum: After recent announcements from chip vendor Freescale and automotive supplier Continental, four technology companies launched the OPEN Special Interest Group aiming at establishing the technology in automotive applications. Read more

October 18, 2011 Silver Atena, system provider and expert for safety-relevant electronic applications, expands its configurable multi-bus gateway product line by an additional digital interface. This interface is already applicable for the sensor bus standard PSI5 in version 2.0. Read more

October 14, 2011 Standard IT components and approaches increasingly enter automotive electronics. Now Ethernet is about to be established as the data bus standard for future car generations. Read more

October 13, 2011 The MOST150 network supports consumer standards such as UPnP (Universal Plug-n-Play) and DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) as well as diagnostics standards (DoIP). The flexibility of MOST network technology allows star, daisy-chain, tree, and other topologies implemented on different physical layers: POF, coax based electrical physical layer, and shielded and unshielded twisted pair (STP/UTP) copper wires. Read more

October 11, 2011 In an environment where an increasing amount of data needs to be processed, automotive data bus systems such as FlexRay and even MOST are hitting their limits. High-speed point-to-point connections are not flexible enough for many applications. Despite its non-deterministic nature, Ethernet is becoming the technology of choice for some automotive applications. Read more

September 5, 2011 The MOST infotainment bus is best suited to meet future in-car infotainment system requirements. At least this is the result of a survey among readers of EE Times Europe automotive. Read more

July 8, 2011 In the world of automotive electronics, new usage models call for closer ties between car and IT. The integration of cars into IT applications, in turn, affects the technologies deployed in the vehicles. EETimes Europe discussed the perspectives of car connectivity with Kurt Sievers, Senior Vice President and General Manager of NXP Semiconductors' automotive business unit. Read more

June 13, 2011 In the run-up to its annual Technology Forum event, Freescale Semiconductor has announced a new automotive microcontroller family. Featuring Ethernet connectivity and video compression, the MPC5604E is intended to make parking assistant systems more affordable. Read more

June 8, 2011 Renesas Electronics has announced the availability of six new 4th-generation (X4 generation) V850-based S-series microcontrollers (MCUs) aiming at car infotainment systems and networking. The new products include two MCUs from the V850E2/SG4-H group with 100 pins, two MCUs from the V850E2/SJ4-H group with 144 pins and two MCUs from the V850E2/SK4-H group with 176 pins. Read more

February 3, 2011 Having already secured a toehold in diagnostics applications, Ethernet will continue to gain territory in cars. During an industry meeting in Munich, Bosch Automotive Electronics VP Rainer Kallenbach laid out its vision of future in-vehicle networking. Read more

January 25, 2011 Microchip announces a six-member family of 32-bit PIC32MX5/6/7 microcontrollers that provide integrated, CAN, Ethernet USB and serial connectivity peripherals with new, more cost-effective memory options. Additionally, design enhancements also provide lower power consumption of 0.5 mA/MHz active current, higher Flash memory endurance of 20k read/write cycles, and better EEPROM emulation capability. Read more

September 15, 2010 STMicroelectronics has unveiled details of its I/O Hub (IOH) specifically designed to work with the Intel Atom processor E6xx series in automotive In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems. Read more

August 18, 2010 The Harting technology group has added a family of Ethernet switches to its product portfolio. The Ha-VIS switches are designed for Ethernet communications networks in road and rail vehicles. Read more

July 22, 2010 In future automotive infotainment environments where multiple cameras generate high amounts of digital data, the connection between cameras and processing units could be an issue. National Semiconductor positions its high-speed SerDes technology as a solution. Read more

July 15, 2010 With secure IP and Ethernet connectivity becoming increasingly relevant in automotive environments, Hitex Development Tools GmbH offers an encryption feature for the TCP/IP protocol stack. Read more

June 16, 2010 While the FlexRay automotive data bus system has yet to find mass acceptance in volume vehicles, some OEMs already consider connectivity options beyond FlexRay. At a congress, BMW detailed plans to roll out Ethernet/IP technology within vehicles. Read more

June 16, 2010 When it comes to extremely reliable real-time data networks, automotive electronics and avionics increasingly grow together. Automotive network technology supplier TTTech Computertechnik AG now has announced it has delivered a Distributed Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) test bed to Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. Read more

April 19, 2010 After MOST and Firewire, Ethernet is emerging as a third option for in-car infotainment networks. A study reveals that Ethernet respectively IP (Internet Protocol) offers several benefits over its competitors. Read more