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Ethernet enters infotainment domain - on the back of the MOST bus 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.
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MOST Forum 2012: MOST Cooperation releases MOST150 onto the road
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.
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Ethernet AVB development kit for open network standard automotive infotainment applications
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.
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Broadcom rolls broadest automotive Ethernet product portfolio
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.
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MOST Forum 2012 to focus on automotive Ethernet, application integration
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
