EB Automotive Software Newsletter -
Issue 05/2009
December 07, 2009
Dear Subscriber,
Welcome to the winter edition of the EB Automotive Software Newsletter.
I started at EB in November as new Vice President of Engineering Infotainment. During the last 14 years I worked for different companies, responsible for the technology development of high and mid end navigation systems.
Software development for infotainment systems is a significant investment for system providers who use their own developed software applications only for their products. That is why EB software products are very valuable for those providers to gain cost savings and technology advantages. One step further, they even look for complete software solutions including system integration scalable towards their hardware needs.
EB is already in a very good position with its white label infotainment products offering customized software suites that really fit the very specific needs of each customer - whether OEM or Tier1. With complementing engineering services EB offers know-how for complete integrated software solutions. Take a look at the article "EB receives Frost & Sullivan award for its versatile product line strategy". This honors the capability of EB to deliver scalable software for market requirements.
As the number ONE software solution provider in automotive infotainment, we will continue to move forward: Driver assistance is already part of our product portfolio. In the near future we will enrich our software solutions with new technologies in areas such as energy efficiency and communication.
I'm pleased to be a part of EB now and I'm looking forward to working with you!
Season's Greetings!
Sincerely yours,
Markus Schupfner
Vice President Engineering Infotainment,
EB Automotive Software Business Unit
Topics
NEC Electronics and EB Collaborate on New AUTOSAR 3.0-Compatible Solution
This software package enables easy design of application software...
Frost & Sullivan Award
EB receives Frost & Sullivan Award for its versatile product line strategy...
Microsoft Windows Embedded Excellence Award
EB receives 2009 Windows Embedded EMEA Partner Excellence Award from Microsoft...
New EB GUIDE Studio Version Upcoming
EB Joined the Navigation Data Standard (NDS) Consortium
New Service Release of EB tresos Busmirror 2009.a Available
New EB tresos Inspector 2009.b Available
Review: FlexRay ProductDay in Fellbach, Germany
Renowned experts once again took a close look at the challenges and solutions of FlexRay...
New FlexRay Video
Success Story
Audi Electronic Fault Information System (ELFIS)...
Service Corner
NEC Electronics and EB Collaborate on New AUTOSAR 3.0-Compatible Solution
NEC Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723) and EB (Elektrobit Corporation) have announced the availability of an AUTOSAR 3.0-compatible software package for various hardware platforms. This software package enables easy design of application software without the need for new developments. The package includes AUTOSAR Basic Software and a comprehensive tool chain and was developed under close cooperation between the two companies.
Frost & Sullivan Award
According to Frost & Sullivan the award is in recognition of EB's outstanding ability to address customer needs and product demands with its versatile product lines. "At EB we feel honored by receiving this award as it confirms the strategy for our products which can be delivered at various prices, performance and features as required by the market" states Jarkko Sairanen, head of EB's Automotive Software Business.
EB addresses three major application areas, namely body control, human machine interface and navigation, with its expertise and subsequently has three main product lines: EB tresos is the product family for ECU software development, EB GUIDE caters to human machine interface development and EB street director provides white-label navigation software.
Read more in English.
Microsoft Windows Embedded Excellence Award
"We are happy to award EB in recognition of its continuous innovation in the consumer and navigation space based on Windows Embedded technologies," said Manoj Rami, Senior Marketing Manager for the Windows Embedded Business at Microsoft. "The accomplishments of our partner ecosystem play a key role in our success, and we are absolutely committed to helping our partners continue to excel in their disciplines."
Developing software for the control of embedded devices is and has been the core of EB's Automotive Business. EB has spent more than 12 years on software development for Microsoft Windows Embedded operating systems and continuously developed software products such as the white label navigation software "EB street director".
New EB GUIDE Studio Version Upcoming
From December 2009 on you may benefit from the valuable new features of EB GUIDE Studio 4.2:
Reduce efforts for modeling views by modeling widgets more efficiently and adapting the template only once when you change the instances of a template.
Benefit from the enhanced simulation debugger with more details and information, halt and execute the simulation step-by-step.
Create and maintain speech dialog based on an existing graphical specification easily by modeling speech in parallel and closely to GUI when you define commands/prompts for widgets.
Integrate swf files directly into EB GUIDE Studio with the 'Adobe® Flash® Plugin'. The lightweight 'Flash Widget' component can be placed inside any 'container widget' for enabling data and event exchanges and you will be able to integrate swf files directly.
EB Joined the Navigation Data Standard (NDS) Consortium
As of November 2009 EB has joined the Navigation Data Standard e.V. NDS is a joint industry effort of several OEMs, Tier 1s, Map Suppliers and Independent Navigation Software Vendors aiming at a uniform global physical storage format for Navigation maps. Several OEMs decided to introduce NDS for navigation systems currently under development.
New Service Release of EB Busmirror 2009.a Available
A new service release of the EB tresos Busmirror 2009.a cluster emulation configuration software has been released together with the corresponding firmware for the supported hardware platforms EB 5100 and EB 61x0.
The 2009.a.sr1 includes the following enhancements:
- Support of AUTOSAR System Description files
- Performance improvements due to new task dispatcher
- Improved graphical user interface (GUI)
- Reworked documentation with more examples
New EB tresos Inspector 2009.b Available
The new EB tresos Inspector 2009.b tool and measurement firmware for the EB61x0 is now available.
The 2009.b release includes the following enhancements:
- CAN acknowledgement support
- CAN ACK error detection
- CAN low speed support
- LIN Support (frame based)
- New measurement export format (csv)
- Docking-pane handling improvement
Review: FlexRay ProductDay in Fellbach, Germany
On November 18th, 2009, renowned experts once again took a close look at the challenges, solutions and new opportunities for this outstanding technology. During this event 44 FlexRay experts shared in 29 presentations their experience with the audience. Around 200 participants gained first-hand information not only from the speeches but also in individual conversations with persons from the FlexRay Consortium and from leading companies in the automotive industry.
Together with Hanser Publishing House Elektrobit again organised the FlexRay ProductDay, which takes place once a year in Fellbach near Stuttgart. This outstanding congress gave all participants the possibility to join the FlexRay community and to discuss the latest developments.
New FlexRay Video
Watch the new FlexRay video. You will see a short introduction to the FlexRay technology.
Click here to watch the video.
Success Story - Audi Electronic Fault Information System (ELFIS)
Between 2005 and 2009, EB developed in successful cooperation with Audi production planning, production line and IT departments an all-in-one IT system with advanced functionality to succeed the existing ones. These systems were used for electronics and mechanical fault documentation, cause analysis and reporting. EB provided the entire application software, using up-to-date Java Spring web application and Oracle database technology, as well as the overall development lifecycle based on agile methods.
Read more.
Service Corner
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