Renesas Technology has teamed up with automotive system specialist Robert Bosch to incorporate the German firm’s FlexRay-1 communication controller IP in its microcontrollers. The first device to be ...

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 launched a major initiative to set standards for future in-car control systems. In simple terms, they want to make it easier to let the ...

Over the last few years, automotive electronics have increasingly defined the driving experience of modern vehicles. Starting in engine management and car audio, electronics have now penetrated all ...

FlexRay is an upcoming networking standard being established to raise the data rate, reliability, and safety of the automotive applications of today and tomorrow. Synthesizable FlexRay intellectual ...

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 ...

Tokyo, July 27, 2004-- Renesas Technology Corp. today announced an agreement with Robert Bosch GmbH to use its FlexRayâ„¢ *1 communication controller IP in a microcontroller for automotive ...

MUNICH, Germany --Automakers are close to adopting a faster in-car data network standard that could revive brake-by-wire and other by-wire technologies. Analysts say BMW AG will introduce the FlexRay ...

Munich, Germany and Austin, Texas: Freescale Semiconductor and the BMW Group introduced the industry’s first implementation of FlexRay technology in BMW’s new X5 sports activity vehicle (SAV). The ...

The bandwagon may be starting to roll behind the FlexRay in-car comms bus standard and Freescale Semiconductor has seen BMW be the first car maker to design the technology into its latest X5 vehicles.