The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an Ethernet testbed, has created a new consortium to help semiconductor businesses address the automotive industry’s requirement of in-vehicle networking.
The group has launched the Automotive Ethernet Consortium, a group that works with its member companies in the auto industry to test various methods that will promote automotive Ethernet devices, the IOL said Monday.
Need for the industry-supported consortium was created because of the integration of applications including advanced navigation and voice recognition, on-board diagnostics and other features in vehicles. As members of the consortium, semiconductor companies can test whether their chips meet the requirements of the BroadR-Reach standard, which allows multiple car systems to access and share information over a single pair, unsheilded cable.
The standard could potentially decrease the cost of connectivity by 80 percent, and the weight of cabling by up to 30 percent because, according to the UNH-IOL, the standard uses one pair of cables and can rely on the same connectors and cables used by other networking technologies in the car. Read More