Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Renesas Technology Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 July 2004
Partnership drives automotive standards
Renesas Technology has joined Autosar, an industry partnership working to establish standards for software interfaces and software modules for automobile electronic control systems
Renesas Technology has joined Autosar (Automotive Open System Architecture), an industry partnership working to establish standards for software interfaces and software modules for automobile electronic control systems. Renesas Technology has joined as a Premium Member. In recent years electronic systems have come to be used ever more extensively in automobiles, a trend that is accelerating rapidly.
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The need is growing for software standardisation as a means to improve the efficiency of the development process, and thereby enable even more extensive use of electronic systems in future.
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Such standardisation would allow previously developed software to be used in new products as well as in microcomputers and microprocessors from different manufacturers.
Autosar was established in July 2003 to promote the standardisation of software for the automobile industry.
Autosar has a three-tier organisation.
Renesas Technology has joined the partnership as a Premium Member, part of the second tier of the structure.
Premium Members have the right to submit proposals for standards, whose specifications are drawn up and finalised by Autosar, but they are required to possess a high level of technical accomplishment and to have a proven track record in the automotive semiconductor field.
Renesas Technology's qualification as a member of Autosar indicates the organisation's high regard for the company's capability as a general manufacturer of automotive semiconductor components and as a supplier of solutions involving the design and production of high-quality devices, IP development and provision of software drivers.
It also represents an acknowledgement of Renesas Technology's position as the fourth largest supplier of automotive semiconductor components in the world (and the top supplier of such components in Asia).
Renesas Technology is the first Asian semiconductor manufacturer to join Autosar as a premium member.
In the years ahead Renesas Technology plans to contribute to the advancement of the industry by contributing to the establishment of standardised specifications by Autosar and by continuing to supply outstanding semiconductor and software products.
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