TTAutomotive Joins AUTOSAR

VIENNA, Austria--Nov. 2, 20059, 2005--TTAutomotive, TTTech's subsidiary for FlexRay(TM) solutions, has joined the AUTOSAR development partnership as a premium member. TTAutomotive will focus on FlexRay software modules that comply with AUTOSAR specifications to advance FlexRay-based Time-Triggered Architecture (TTA) in the automotive industry.

AUTOSAR is the acronym for AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture. The development partnership's mission is to establish an industrial standard for off-the-shelf software components, in order to provide cost-optimized, best-in-class solutions to the automotive industry. The architecture is characterized by standardized, non-proprietary, and clearly defined interfaces.

TTAutomotive supports the open standard for an automotive electronics architecture. The company contributes substantially to the improvement of quality and reliability of time-triggered software, as well as related design and diagnostic tools. TTAutomotive participates in, and actively contributes to, the work of the AUTOSAR partnership in order to develop common specifications. This includes interfaces that will serve as basis for the development, production and implementation of future automotive systems.

A high level of technical competence, equally shared among the partners, is critical for the success of the AUTOSAR development partnership. TTAutomotive's contribution to AUTOSAR is based on vast experience in design and implementation of configuration tools for time-triggered run-time environments. TTAutomotive benefits from TTTech group's extensive experience with TTA and provides relevant technology know-how to the development partnership.

"TTAutomotive stands for expert knowledge in dependable time-triggered systems and architectures. We are convinced that TTAutomotive's participation in AUTOSAR will lead to considerable advances in Time-Triggered Architecture development for the automotive industry," comments Dr. Thomas Scharnhorst, AUTOSAR spokesperson, director, EE architectures and concepts at Volkswagen AG and managing director, Carmeq GmbH.

TTAutomotive's aim is to provide a full development tool chain for time-triggered AUTOSAR components and to align its efforts with the mission of the AUTOSAR development partnership. The company will support customers with a stable, modular, open and reliable framework of tools for design, configuration and diagnostics. In addition, TTAutomotive will provide a variety of associated embedded software components.

Further information at: http://www.ttautomotive.com/news/doc/ PR_2005-11-29-TTAutomotive-AUTOSAR.pdf