Elektrobit Group Oyj - EB AND FREESCALE OPTIMIZE SOFTWARE FOR MICROCONTROLLERS
December 18, 2009
EB AND FREESCALE OPTIMIZE SOFTWARE FOR MICROCONTROLLERS
Complementary
software/microcontroller packages for Electronic Control Units (ECU), Human
Machine Interface (HMI) development, and for navigation applications now
available
Erlangen (Germany), 18. December 2009 ? EB (Elektrobit),
a leading developer of cutting-edge embedded technology solutions for
automotive and wireless industries, and the semiconductor manufacturer
Freescale Semiconductor Inc. have harmonized their software and
microcontrollers. Both EB?s standard software for electronic control units as
well as EB?s HMI and navigation software solutions have been optimized for
Freescale microcontrollers.
?The
complementary software/microcontroller packages allow application software to
be efficiently designed without having to optimize it for each specific application.?
says Ray Cornyn, director for Automotive Microcontroller products at Freescale
Semiconductor. The solutions have been developed by both companies in close
cooperation.
Turnkey AUTOSAR
Implementation for Electronic Control Units
EB
and Freescale signed a reseller agreement on AUTOSAR-compatible products
earlier this year and as part of this agreement, EB and Freescale provide a
ready to use AUTOSAR solution for the EB tresos product family, which is EB?s
control unit standard software. The companies contribute their specific core
competencies to this cooperation: EB provides the EB tresos Studio
configuration tool and hardware independent modules. Freescale supplies the
hardware dependent AUTOSAR elements. To achieve this, processes and workflows
of both partners have been closely matched to each other so that the customers
of each company can use an AUTOSAR solution which has been optimized for
Freescale microcontrollers.
Advanced User Interfaces
thanks to OpenVG and OpenGL
The i.MX51-series processor
impresses with its OpenGL ES 2.0 hardware acceleration
and is used as a reference platform for the EB GUIDE Graphics Target Framework
(GTF). The EB GUIDE Target Framework has been optimized in such a way that it
supports instrument clusters as well as i.MX-based complex infotainment
systems. When developing complex HMI applications, the interaction between
microcontrollers and software reveals its strengths in fast sample applications
where graphics calculations are performed by hardware.
The software/microcontroller
package supports all major operating systems
(Windows CE, Linux, QNX).
High Performance 3D
Navigation Using Freescale Silicon
Powerful
processing of 3D data enables attractive three-dimensional representations in
the EB street director white label software, which has been ported to and
optimized for, Freescale i.MX microcontrollers. In addition to elevation
information and landmarks, calculation of entire city models is now available.
Satellite images can be mapped onto elevation models and shading (i.e.
emulating surface response) can be implemented thanks to the well-balanced
combination of microcontroller and software.
Availability
EB GUIDE GTF 2.5 and EB street director 5.x are currently
available for the Freescale i.MX51-series processor. EB
tresos supports various microcontrollers in the MPC56xx and S12(X) families.
Martin Schleicher
Director Marketing,
Automotive Software Business
EB, Elektrobit
Contact person for the editorial team
Karin Haubner
Public Relations, Automotive
Software Business
EB, Elektrobit
Am Wolfsmantel 46
91058 Erlangen
Germany
Phone +49 9131 7701 6101
E-Mail: [email protected]
