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News Release from: MOST Cooperation
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 April 2007
Automotive electronics standard
discussed
More than 100 representatives of the partners and members contributing to MOST came to Frankfurt on March 27th, 2007, to present experiences and solutions during the conference and at the exhibition.
The MOST Co-operation, the consortium specifying the leading automotive multimedia networking standard for Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST), met at the annual All Members Meeting to agree on the roadmap of further expanding the established standard by breaking new technology grounds and entering the world of consumer electronics More than 100 representatives of the partners and members contributing to MOST came to Frankfurt on March 27th, 2007, to present their latest experiences and solutions during the conference and at the exhibition
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Oct 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Our focus in 2007 will be on bridging the gap between the automotive infotainment and the consumer electronics world", states Henry Muyshondt, Technical Co-ordinator of the MOST Co-operation.
"Customers can now buy all kinds of new consumer electronics devices for digital entertainment or rear-seat entertainment and want to safely and conveniently use them in their cars".
"So it is on us to specify how to integrate these devices in our vehicles such that we can satisfy the customer expectation but do not get into a time race with the CE industry with cycles of only months compared to ours of several years".
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MOST150 enables direct isochronous transport of MPEG video streams without bit-stuffing or transcoding.
Engineers and technicians must be trained
Leading UK engineering and technology firms, with a combined multi-million pound spend on training and development, will assemble at the IEE 'Investing in Technical Teams' forum on 4 November 2004.
Since the product cycles of the automotive industry differ by orders of magnitude from the consumer world the MOST solution will be a gateway connecting the consumer world to the in-vehicle platform.
The clear trend is to enable the automotive system to integrate the required features instead of providing every upcoming attribute.
With the gateway MOST will offer a way to successfully decouple the automotive development cycles from the consumer electronics (CE) cycles.
The MOST co-operation also works together with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) to drive the convergence of consumer electronics and the automobile over gateways to aftermarket components as iPod and MP3 player cradles and Bluetooth.
One project is to develop a Most-based serial protocol for control of portable media players to go with CEA 2017 Portable Media Player Connector standard.
In co-operation with MOST the CEA already published in 2006 the Standard CEA 2012A MOST Networking Application to add USB as the preferred method to connect to aftermarket components.
The MOST co-operation had released the "AuxIn Specification Rev 3.0" on Auxiliary Input function block to support content navigation.
It has already been implemented in several OEM head units.
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