Meeting to steer automotive roadmap

The partners and members of the MOST Cooperation will meet in Frankfurt on 27th March 2007 for the annual All Member Meeting.

The partners and members of the MOST Cooperation will meet in Frankfurt on 27th March 2007 for the annual All Member Meeting.

As the collaboration established to standardise and further develop MOST technology begins its tenth year of operation, representatives of the partners Audi, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Harman/Becker and SMSC (formerly Oasis SiliconSystems) and all other member companies will get together to take stock of the progress to date and outline the roadmap for 2007.

"The year 2006 has been very successful for the MOST Cooperation", says Dr Christian Thiel, Administrator of the MOST Cooperation.

"Twelve new enterprises joined the co-operation bringing the number of members to 88 including the 15 leading car manufacturers".

"Currently in 45 car models, MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transport) is used to transmit infotainment information, such as audio and video, speech and data, over plastic optical fibre or an unshielded twisted pair of copper wires".

Members of the MOST Cooperation's Steering Committee will present a report of the current status of the technology followed by an outlook and roadmap for 2007.

Individual members will then report on the challenges and success stories involved in making MOST systems a reality.

A variety of car manufacturers and automotive suppliers will also showcase their latest products and designs during the accompanying exhibition.

Finalised in 2006, the specifications of the second generation of MOST - MOST50 - mark a significant milestone in the history of the MOST technology.

With the "MOST Specification 2V5", the MOST Cooperation doubles the bandwidth for automotive infotainment solutions from 25 to 50Mbit/s.

The "MOST Specification of Electrical Physical Layer 1V1" is a further key specification the co-operation offers its partners and members.

It enables data transmission over an unshielded twisted pair (UTP) of copper wires while meeting stringent automotive electromagnet compatibility requirements.

The new specifications satisfy today future requirements of automotive infotainment systems to move information over a single plastic optical fibre (POF) or UTP copper wire conductor and interconnect components such as multichannel DVD players, satellite receivers, digital A/V players, digital storage devices, telematics systems and rear-seat entertainment systems.

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