Linux - Concurrent Pushes into Automotive

Electronics In Cars Are Good Places for Embedded Linux-based Networking Systems

May. 23, 2008 02:30 PM

Before we’re all reduced to shank’s mare, Concurrent is wading into the automotive industry, observing that with the amount of electronics in cars constantly on the uptick, it’s a good place for an embedded Linux-based networking system.

So it’s announced FlexRay communication support for its SIMulation Workbench, which provides a complete framework to develop and execute real-time hardware-in-the-loop and man-in-the-loop simulations.

Concurrent says FlexRay offers the networking performance needed by new enhanced automotive applications such as brake-by-wire and steer-by-wire.

Automotive engineers will have a complete set of software tools that reduces test and integration time for new advanced automotive designs.

FlexRay is an advanced automotive network standard for deterministic, fault-tolerant, high-speed data communication specified by the FlexRay Consortium. The consortium partners include BMW, Bosch, Daimler, Freescale, General Motors, NXP Semiconductors and Volkswagen.

Apparently about 20% of all the light vehicles made for the North American market will incorporate FlexRay as their communication bus by the year 2012.

Concurrent has experience providing solutions to Ford and General Motors. “The addition of support for the FlexRay standard creates a new market potential for SIMulation Workbench” according to Concurrent CEO Dan Mondor.

Published May. 23, 2008— Reads 6,338
Copyright © 2008 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.

About Maureen O'Gara
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025. Twitter: @MaureenOGara

Enterprise Open Source Magazine Latest Stories . . .

Deltacloud Graduates to TLP

By Maureen O'Gara

Apache Deltacloud, the Red Hat-contributed ReSTful API that abstracts differences between clouds so services on any cloud can be managed – provided of course there’s a driver – has graduated from the Apache Foundation’s incubator and is now a full-fledged Top-Level Project (TLP). The...

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Mark Hinkle – Citrix Systems

By Jeremy Geelan

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) just four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and st...

AMD Sales Chief Out

By Maureen O'Gara

AMD said late Tuesday that its chief sales officer Emilio Ghilardi had left the company and that CEO and president Rory Read is going to do his job while a replacement is sought. AMD didn’t say why Ghilardi left but it’s assumed Read wants his own people. Read is relatively new to th...

M3 Timers – Improved Server Monitoring

By Hovhannes Avoyan

During the lifespan of M3 (Monitis Monitor Manager) there has always been something lacking – timers. M3 execution procedure was outlined in this previous article. The execution mentioned in the latter was a one-time-execution, whereas server monitoring requires periodic invocati...

Red Hat Puts Gluster Appliance on Amazon

By Maureen O'Gara

Red Hat is putting its bought-in Gluster scale-out NAS storage technology, acquired in October, on the Amazon cloud. It’s styled Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services and other clouds are supposed to follow in short order.

The New OpenNebula Self-Service Portal in Action

By Ignacio M. Llorente

A new episode of the screencast series is now available at the OpenNebula YouTube Channel. This screencast demonstrates the new easily-customizable self-service portal for cloud consumers. Its aim is to offer a simplified access to shared infrastructure for non-IT end users. The scree...