Austin, Tex.&#151 Freescale Semiconductor’s MPC5567 microcontroller based on the PowerPC core enables fault-tolerant communication at high bandwidth rates of 10Mbit/sec, reducing system cost by ...

FlexRay was born out of necessity. As automobile manufacturers began investigating new power train, chassis, and by-wire control systems, two companies in particular, BMW and DaimlerChrysler, realized ...

After several years of hard work by industry leaders worldwide on the development of the FlexRay communications protocol, the initial automotive applications are starting to become visible on the ...

The first FlexRay application to enter production was an option called AdaptiveDrive on BMW's X5 sport activity vehicle (SAV). Based on 32-bit FlexRay microcontrollers from Freescale Semiconductor, ...

Several European automakers and electronics suppliers have introduced a major initiative to set standards for in-car control systems. In simple terms, they want to make it easier to let the growing ...

When the FlexRay Consortium was founded in 2000, the target was to develop a fault toleranthighspeed automotive bus-system for the future requirements ofin-vehicle communication. The amount of ...