We recently shipped our one millionth FlexRay transceiver to the automotive industry. This landmark shipment underscores our number-one position as the leading supplier of in-vehicle networking technology, making us the only provider to ship over a million FlexRay Physical Layer compliant transceivers. It also shows that car OEMs are rapidly adopting FlexRay as their technology for in-vehicle networking.
FlexRay is the automotive standard for deterministic, fault-tolerant, high-speed data communication.
It clearly delivers the
networking performance demanded by newer and enhanced automotive applications such as brake-by-wire and steer-by-wire.
As the next generation of in-vehicle networking, FlexRay has much higher bandwidth than existing CAN and is expected to be
the communication backbone for drive-by-wire applications, which will help reduce car weight and energy consumption and
allow for better safety.
As one of the founding members of the FlexRay Consortium, NXP is working actively to broaden the adoption of FlexRay technology towards a global scale, enabling car OEMs worldwide to meet their requirements for reducing emission and fuel consumption while improving driving experiences.
According to a Strategy Analytics report, the global automotive networking protocol deployment will drive the number of network nodes deployed to 2 billion units per annum and will create a bus transceiver market worth almost USD 1 billion by 2015. FlexRay technology is expected to gain an increasing share of this key market as demand for robust, real-time electronic control in safety-critical applications expands.
NXP has taken the lead in providing best-in-class FlexRay solutions, and is driving standardization across the industry. We’re working with the FlexRay Consortium and a number of partners who have driven innovation in the industry. Complementing the TJA1080A product, NXP recently released the TJA1081 and TJA1082 FlexRay node transceivers addressing car manufacturers’ need for high-speed, fault-tolerant communication systems and flexible and scalable electronic networks.
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