FMAL Launches AUTOSAR 2.1, Compatible Driver for Automotive Onboard Microcontrollers

Bangalore: Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (FMAL) announced the development and launch of a new microcontroller driver for its MB91460 Series of 32-bit automotive microcontrollers.

Jointly developed with Elektrobit Corporation of Finland, the new driver is compatible with Release 2.1 of AUTOSAR, the open software architecture for automobiles from the AUTOSAR automotive software standards consortium. The new microcontroller driver is available now from Fujitsu Microelectronics and Elektrobit. When used with Fujitsu Microelectronics’ microcontrollers, this new driver will offer customers a degree of code reusability for automotive onboard applications already developed, and efficiency when developing automotive software.

Fujitsu Microelectronics became a premium member of the AUTOSAR organization in 2005 and has taken an active role in the development of onboard microcontrollers. In 2007, the company formed a strategic partnership with Elektrobit, developer of software for automotive onboard systems. The companies worked together to develop a version of Elektrobit’s ‘EB tresos’ software for Fujitsu Microelectronics’ MB91460 Series of microcontrollers, with both companies agreeing to distribute an AUTOSAR-compatible driver.

In accordance with this agreement, Fujitsu Microelectronics and Elektrobit jointly developed two drivers compatible with AUTOSAR 2.1: one for the dashboard-control microcontroller MB91F467DA, and one for the FlexRay 2.1 microcontroller, MB91F465XA. Both drivers are available now. The AUTOSAR Release 2.1 now encompasses FlexRay, so customers using Fujitsu Microelectronics’ microcontrollers and the new driver developed with Elektrobit can efficiently develop applications that take advantage of FlexRay.

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