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A working model of the complex electronics needed to drive autonomous cars is encapsulated in an Audi concept car with TTTech Automotive's Advanced Driver Assistance System Platform on board.
The result of cooperation between Audi, TTTech and other hightech suppliers demonstrates the convergence of information and control technology. It will result in a highly integrated platform ECU named zFAS, which is based on a complex multicore network.
"Our goal is leadership in piloted parking and piloted driving. For this purpose TTTech and Audi are developing a highly advanced high performance central electronic control unit," said Ricky Hudi, Head of Electronics, AUDI AG in a press statement. "It will feature performance and computing capacity superior to the entire electronic architecture of today's Audi A4. With this high performance system we are entering the path towards piloted parking and driving in an entirely connected world," he said.
"We are proud to leap forward with our cross-industry-proven core technology components towards Audi's vision of piloted driving," said Stefan Poledna, member of TTTech's executive board and co-founder.
This cooperation resulted in the development of a new crossfunctional concept for a deterministic ethernet-based electronics architecture. zFAS successfully integrated safety-relevant applications in an intelligent way.
AUDI AG and the TTTech Group have been cooperating closely in the field of time-triggered systems since 2001. TTTech Automotive's core business is the development and series supply of safety-relevant ECUs in the areas of electric propulsion, driving dynamics and driver assistance. During its successful strategic partnership with Audi, TTTech introduced the networking technology Deterministic Ethernet (TTEthernet), a fully...