TTTech Automotive is a subsidiary of TTTech Computertechnik AG and acts as implementation partner for automotive electronics and software. The company offers know-how ranging from physical layer to COM stack software and configuration and testing tools as well as development of safety-relevant functionalities up to SIL 3 / ASIL D.

ams and TTTech Automotive cooperate closely in the field of FlexRay transceiver support and development. Merging the two partners? chip and system know-how improves the quality and reliability of FlexRay networks, whilst lowering costs.

For further information please click on http://www.tttech-automotive.com

Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) is a major supplier of semiconductor products. The company provides advanced systems solutions to the automotive, digital TV, mobile telephony, communications, networking and industrial markets. Engineers from design centres dedicated to microcontrollers, graphics controllers, mixed-signal, wireless, multimedia ICs, ASIC products and software development, work closely with FME's marketing and sales teams throughout EMEA to help satisfy customers' systems development requirements. This solutions approach is supported by a broad range of advanced semiconductor devices, IP, building blocks and software.

For further information please visit www.emea.fujitsu.com

CISC Business Unit AT is a team of specialists with long-time, international experience in the area automotive electronics. We focus on modeling and simulation of electronic systems and components. We map system requests to single components and sub-systems. At the same time a virtual prototype that we gradually refine emerges. Binding of SW, HW, mechanics, etc. is also part of that work. Simultaneously we validate whether already developed components still fulfil the system requests.

For further information about our co-opeation please visit CISC.

The FH Joanneum is a Partner concerning following issues:

• Preparation of an ActiveStar device specification,
• Design of the bitreshaper functionality within the ActiveStar in VHDL,
• Development of an ActiveStar evaluation platform (within TEODACS project),
• EMC measurements (within TEODACS project),
• Topology analysis (within TEODACS project)

For further information visit www.fh-joanneum.at

Located in Graz/Austria the VIRTUAL VEHICLE Competence Center (ViF) has positioned itself as an independent, international platform for research and development in the automotive industry. It addresses the gap between academic research and the needs of industrial research and development departments. The VIRTUAL VEHICLE strives for full vehicle analysis using a multi-disciplinary approach and offers services and conducts research in the following areas: Active & Passive Safety, Thermo and Fluid Dynamics, Virtual Engineering, Virtual Manufacturing as well as Electrics/Electronics, Vehicle Software and Rail Systems. Its cooperation network comprises over 40 international partners including leading OEM's, tier 1+2 suppliers, and software vendors. As the main shareholder the Graz University of Technology (TUG) connects ViF to more than 20 institutes enabling technical innovations in virtual vehicle creation as well as offering access to funded projects. The Competence Center ViF aims at establishing an integrated and systematic approach in order to exploit the full optimisation potential in all areas of vehicle development together with numerous national and international scientific and industrial partners.

Link: www.v2c2.at

The TEODACS research project develops new concepts and methods for the efficient test, evaluation and optimization of dependable automotive communication systems. For this task, VIRTUAL VEHICLE teams up with AVL, ams, CISC, the Graz University of Technology and the FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences.

The aims of this project are to understand the interactions between the layers building a dependable network and to evaluate the different effects influencing the communication (e.g. topology, EMC). The approach is based on the development of a co-simulation framework (FlexRayXpert.Sim) tightly interfaced to a realistic prototype (FlexRayXpert.Lab). The simulation framework, on one side, provides observability of the internal components and thus enables the efficient analysis of the system. On the other side, the prototype presents a real behavior both in the time and value domain. The coupling of these two platforms combines the advantages of the two approaches: It enables for example the validation of the simulation models and the analysis of real scenarios within the simulator.

For further information please visit www.teodacs.com

The FlexRay™ Consortium was formed to drive the adoption of the FlexRay communication system as the de facto industry standard for high-speed communication networks for automotive applications. austriamicrosystems is Premium Associate Member.

For further information please visit the FlexRay™ Consortium .

JasPar was formed to reduce technology development costs and promote technology development, by encouraging Japanese companies to collaborative develop pre-competitive technologies as automotive LAN enabling technologies, middleware and software platforms. austriamicrosystems is a Regular Member.

For further information visit Jaspar.