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FlexRay - An Introduction
FlexRay is a fast, deterministic and fault-tolerant bus system for automotive use, based on the experience of DaimlerChrysler with the development of prototype applications and the byteflight communication system developed by BMW. Byteflight was developed by BMW especially for use in passive safety systems (airbags). In order to fulfill the requirements of active safety systems, byteflight was further developed by the FlexRay consortium in...
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FlexRay @ Wikipedia
FlexRay is a new automotive network communications protocol under development by the FlexRay Consortium. It is positioned above CAN and MOST both in terms of performance and price. Its prominent features are: high data rates (10 megabits per second) time triggered behavior redundancy, safety, and fault-tolerance The protocol specifications are in review stage. The first production vehicle with FlexRay will be the 2006 BMW X5,...
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FlexRay Description
FlexRay is a high-speed serial [Synchronous and Asynchronous] communication system for in-vehicle networks [Control Systems] using Point-to-Point [Star topology] links, at 10Mbps [Fault-Tolerant] over Un-shielded Twisted Pair [UTP] or Shielded Twisted Pair [STP] cable. The FlexRay bus defines the Physical layer [Electrical and Optical] and Protocol. FlexRay is a fault tolerant bus and provides deterministic data transmission at a Baud-Rate...
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Flexray Overview
The scope of the Consortium is to develop jointly an innovative communications network of very high quality which consists of the complete communication infrastructure and includes inter alia the specifications for the serial communications protocol, the transceiver, the hardware and software interfaces and conformance/certification procedures. This will serve as the basis for the development, production and implementation of certain...
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A Comparison of Bus Architectures for Safety-Critical Embedded Systems
Avionics and control systems for aircraft use distributed, fault-tolerant computer systems to provide safety-critical functions such as flight and engine control. These systems are becoming modular, meaning that they are based on standardized architectures and components, and integrated, meaning that some of the components are shared by different functions of possibly different criticality levels. The modular architectures that support...
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Flexray - 2006 Powerpoint Presentation from Freescale
FlexRay is the next generation automotive bus to provide * High-speed communication * Deterministic communication * Fault-tolerant communication FlexRay System Components released by the FlexRay Consortium in 2005: * FlexRay Communications System Protocol Specification Version 2.1, May 2005 * FlexRay Communications System Electrical Physical Layer Specification 2.1, May 2005 * FlexRay Bus Guardian Specification Version 2.1, December 2005
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