TTTech and Audi Form Technical Partnership

    GENEVA, Feb. 26 Today, at the Geneva Motor Show, TTTech
Computertechnik AG announced a technical partnership with Audi AG, the German
premium automaker in the introduction of safety-critical Time-Triggered
electronic architecture for the automotive mass market.  The Time-Triggered
electronic architecture will be the basic platform for a number of key
automotive innovations, ranging from integrated vehicle control systems,
electromechanical "brake and steer by wire" systems to new applications in
collision avoidance.

    Audi, as TTTech's technical development partner for the first automotive
applications, will use the Time-Triggered architecture to implement new
vehicle functions in the coming years.  The TTTech architecture is called
Time-Triggered Protocol (TTP(R)).

    After 20 years of development by TTTech co-founder Prof. Herman Kopetz at
the Technical University of Vienna and with the support of leading industrial
partners in European product research, TTP has reached series production
stage.  This new in-car communication system enables new functions at the
highest level of safety and comfort.  It will be used in automotive,
industrial control and aerospace applications, already providing a standard
that meets the stringent safety requirements of the aerospace industry.
Safety is the most important reason to replace mechanical systems with
entirely electronically controlled computer systems.  TTP is recognized as the
fault-tolerant technology of choice for future safety-critical systems in the
automotive and aerospace industries.  TTTech has already initiated FAA
standards certification for aerospace customers and NASA supports TTP
technology for low cost fly-by-wire systems.

    With TTP, TTTech has established itself as the leader in Time-Triggered
systems and has formed key partnerships with aerospace and semiconductor
companies as well as with leading research institutions.  The technical
cooperation with Audi is the most important step for TTTech to introduce Time-
Triggered Architecture into automotive series applications.