July 31, 2012 ON Semiconductor has expanded its portfolio of automotive networking products with the introduction of a bus transceiver IC that is compliant with the most recent adaption to the FlexRay communications protocol. Read more

March 15, 2012 Chipmaker NXP is preparing for the 48V split-voltage supply networks in future cars, predominantly in hybrid electric and electric vehicles. The company has announced the roll-out of a family of FlexRay network transceivers designed to run with 48V. The product family complements its existing spectrum of 48V-ready CAN transceivers. Read more

March 9, 2012 The new generation of the TESSY series from automotive test platform vendor Goepel electronic GmbH is designed as test system family for network characteristics of electronic control units (ECUs). It features optimised hardware architecture and significantly extended range of functions. The most newsworthy feature of the new family is the support of the FlexRay bus for communication behaviour test of ECUs, which adds to the already available bus families of CAN, LIN and K-Line. Read more

February 16, 2012 When it comes to features essential for a sports car such as road holding and transversal stability, Porsche certainly has achieved some performance. A good deal of Porsche's outperformance over standard vehicles is owed to intelligent mechatronic elements in the chassis such as adaptive air suspension of Dynamic Chassis Control. To tap additional potential it might be necessary to implement an overall chassis computer that coordinates all these distributed intelligent devices. Read more

February 13, 2012 Rigol Technologies EU introduces the DS4000 series digital oscilloscope, featuring up to 500 MHz bandwidth (BW). The oscilloscope is designed for applications in research, development and failure analysis application. Its signal and device characteristics with advanced waveform search, visualization and replay also facilitate design works with Flexray and CAN bus systems as well as with radar-based assistants. Read more

February 1, 2012 LeCroy Corporation released three new packages to address the growing automotive segment. Automobile and chip manufacturers, such as Broadcom and partners of the MOST Cooperation turned to LeCroy for the test needs of their next generation systems. As a result, two QualiPHY automated compliance test packages are available for MOST and the emerging BroadR-Reach standard. Further, LeCroy's Vehicle Bus Analyzer (VBA) test solution has been expanded to operate on the WaveRunner 6 Zi, WavePro 7 Zi, and WaveMaster 8 Zi oscilloscope platforms. Read more

December 5, 2011 Manufacturers in the automotive industry's premium segment frequently rely on FlexRay as a communications interface. They can now benefit from the high acquisition rate and accuracy of the R&S RTO oscilloscopes from Rohde & Schwarz: A new option offers all the features needed for fast and reliable FlexRay debugging. 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 16, 2011 For applications associated to challenging ambient temperatures, chipmaker Austriamicrosystems has developed the AS8222 FlexRay transceiver. This device enables designers to roll out FlexRay even in powertrain applications where the temperature exceeds the standard automotive temperature range such as transmission and engine control to name just a few. 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

April 4, 2011 With the E981.56, semiconductor vendor Elmos AG introduces the second generation of its series-produced active FlexRay star coupler. The device has been awarded the certification according to the updated FlexRay electrical physical layer (EPL) specification V3.0 - as the first such component worldwide, the vendor claims. Read more

November 29, 2010 Analog IC manufacturer Austriamicrosystems (AMS) has introduced what it claims to be the industry's first monolithic FlexRay Standard V2.1 Rev B compliant Active Star Device. The AS8223 manages communication traffic among four FlexRay branches of the network, expandable to more branches through an Interstar interface. Read more

July 27, 2010 With a new iteration of its TriCore microcontroller architecture, Infineon tackles compute-intensive automotive applications such as calculating fuel-air mixture for low-emission cars or sophisticated chassis control. Read more

June 24, 2010 With added integration of basic diagnostics and new control panels, suers of Vector Informatik's CANalyzer bus analysis too now have additional ways to stimulate and analyze CAN, LIN, MOST and FlexRay networks or ECUs. 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

May 26, 2010 Austriamicrosystems has announced that luxury car maker Audi as well as Audi's parent company Volkswagen has selected the AS8221 FlexRay transceiver for use in their Electronic Control Units (ECUs). The AS8221 fully conforms to the FlexRay Electrical Physical Layer Specification V2.1 Rev B and is targeted for use in ECUs connected to the permanent battery supply where the transceiver manages the ECU power-up via its inhibit output pins. Read more

April 26, 2010 While x-by-wire and in particular steer-by-wire technologies are slow to gain acceptance in passenger cars, they quickly gain traction in another segment of the vehicle industry: Mobile working machines including tractors, excavators and forklifts. Read more

March 26, 2010 A FlexRay serial bus analysis function is now available as an option to 4-channel models in the Yokogawa DLM2000 Series of mixed-signal oscilloscopes. Designed to provide physical-layer waveform observation and protocol analysis for the fast, highly reliable FlexRay in-vehicle local area network, the new facility allows the user to capture FlexRay bus signals with a wide variety of dedicated triggers and carry out analysis and troubleshooting on parameters that can affect the FlexRay signal. Read more