VaST Partners Collaborate in Automotive Arena
 Infineon and Delphi push AUTOSAR
Infineon Technologies and automotive systems maker Delphi Corporation will collaborate closely on developing a new generation of body control units based on the standard Automotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR).
The two companies are focusing on classic automotive-sector requirements, such as optimized functionality, costs and reliability, as well as on flexibility, compatibility and real-time performance. Both companies see the collaboration as a significant milestone in efforts to drive AUTOSAR into automotive electronics.
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Infineon microcontrollers picked up by Volkswagen
Infineon Technologies has announced that a member of its XC2200 family of chips has been chosen by Volkswagen for use in its automotive body and convenience electronics. Volkswagen will use the microcontroller to provide greater gateway capabilities in automobile body and convenience electronics to support the increasing networking and communication requirements between individual automotive subsystems.
"Volkswagen decided in favor of a microcontroller from the XC2200 family not just because of the compelling feature set, but also because Infineon has built up considerable expertise over many years of serving the automotive sector and is involved in a number of strategic collaboration projects with the Volkswagen Group and many of its electronics suppliers," says Infineon's Jochen Hanebeck, senior vice president of microcontrollers at the company.
Today's cars use up to 50 different subsystems, grouped in separate communication networks that take care of everything from engine and powertrain management to body and convenience electronics and infotainment. Depending on current driving conditions, they all need to communicate with one another.
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Samsung selects Infineon HSDPA platform for HEDGE mobile phone family
Samsung Electronics, Inc., Seoul, Korea, has chosen Infineon's HSDPA Platform XMM™6080 for its new family of HEDGE (HSDPA/EDGE) mobile handsets. The new product family will use the Infineon XMM 6080 platform, which includes the HSDPA/EDGE baseband, power management, and single chip 3.5G RF transceiver, and is complemented by Infineon's protocol stack for HEDGE phones. The XMM 6080 platform will let Samsung introduce a range of new HEDGE (HSDPA/EDGE) phones reusing the proven Infineon core.
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Interview spotlights Freescale's electric dream
In an article by EETimes, Paul Grimme of Freescale Semiconductors explores Freescale's efforts in developing technologies to drive mass-production of AUTOSAR-compliant automobiles, and furthering innovation in hybrid and electric technologies.The interview examines Freescale's co-operation with ST Microelectronics, rate of change in the automotive sector and how AUTOSAR will drive automotive innovation.
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Freescale gets checkered flag as the No. 1 chipmaker to the automotive industry
Strategy Analytics' 2007 Automotive Semiconductor Vendor Market Share report names Freescale as the No. 1 supplier to the automotive industry — the 17th year that Freescale has topped the charts in the analyst firm's annual report. Chris Webber, vice president of global automotive practice for Strategy Analytics, says, "It's remarkable that any silicon vendor has sustained such a long tenure of automotive-market leadership, given the fierce global competition and the industry's rigorous requirements for quality and continuous innovation." Freescale expects to increase auto-related semiconductor unit sales at double-digit rates. This market momentum is built on strong relationships with leading automakers in the United States, Europe and Asia. In addition, Freescale has announced plans to establish a joint automotive lab with China 's Chery Automobile Co. The two companies aim to co-develop silicon, software and system-level solutions for use in Chery vehicles for Chinese and export markets.
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Freescale leverages Green Hills tools for AUTOSAR software
"Freescale has worked closely with Green Hills Software for many years to ensure that automotive customers can achieve outstanding performance, minimal footprint and production-grade quality software running on Freescale's Automotive 32-bit MPC55xx Power Architecture microcontroller families," said Denis Griot, chairman of Freescale EMEA and the company's global automotive marketing lead. Thus, the companies' most recent partnership is a natural fit. Freescale Semiconductor announced that it is developing and deploying AUTOSAR-compliant software for the MPC551x automotive microcontroller family with Green Hills Software's MULTI development tools for Power Architecture technology. Green Hills Software's development tools enable developers to create high-performance, small-footprint, highly reliable software in the least amount of time and at the lowest cost.
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Renesas Technology develops future 32-bit RX600 series CISC MCUs based on Renesas' next-generation 'RX' architecture
Renesas Technology Corp. has announced the development of the RX600 Series microcontrollers (MCUs). The company is developing the RX Family in response to changing market needs for high-speed, high-performance, large-capacity on-chip memory and power-sensitive MCUs to support embedded systems. With the launch of the RX Family, Renesas aims to take advantage of the high growth 32-bit application space by providing a scalable CISC architecture.
The new devices, scheduled for sample shipment in the second quarter of 2009, will be the first 32-bit products to incorporate the next-generation 'RX' CPU architecture and offer CPU performance of up to 200MHz, with the industry's fastest single-cycle flash access capability (100MHz).
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Expanded product offering drives automotive electronics virtualization
VaST Systems and NEC Electronics America, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor solutions in the Americas, have announced the availability and development of virtual models of NEC Electronics' 32-bit V850-based microcontroller units (MCUs). The models will enable the creation of auto body controllers, seat and door modules, HVAC systems and anti-theft mechanisms, among other body applications. In addition, designers will be able to create safety systems such as intelligent airbag systems. VaST solutions help manage escalating system design complexity and are used by automotive suppliers and OEMs for architecture design and software development.
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TRACE32 extends hardware-debugging functionality at UML level for Rhapsody in C
In close cooperation with Telelogic, Lauterbach, the leading manufacturer of microprocessor development tools, extended the integration of its debugging environment "TRACE32" with the UML based model-driven development environment "Telelogic Rhapsody." Rhapsody is a UML tool dedicated to the technical, real-time and embedded market, using UML 2.1 specified diagrams for modelling software. Out of these diagrams, "Rhapsody in C" generates completely executable C code. TRACE32 offers a debugging environment dedicated to In-Circuit-Debuggers for all commonly used embedded processors and includes a C source code debugger as well as a sophisticated real-time trace. The connection of these products generates completely new possibilities in debugging UML on embedded systems.
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