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News Release from: Vast Systems Technology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 November 2005
Club focuses on virtual ECU design
The V-ECU club brings together a group of companies investing in virtual platforms for development of integrated electronics for the automotive industry.
Vast Systems Technology Corporation has helped set up the V-ECU (virtual electronic control unit) club, a group of companies investing in virtual platforms for development of integrated electronics for the automotive industry Members include Toyotsu Electronics, Toyota Techno Service Corporation and Fujitsu TEN, along with Vast Systems Technology Corporations (Vast) and Gaia System Solutions
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Jun 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Today's high-end automobiles have up to 70 ECUs connected by an average of five buses under the control of millions of lines of software interacting in real time.
As BMW reported at the January 2004 Automotive Electronics Conference in San Diego, California, 50-70% of the development cost of an ECU is related to software and already 40% of a vehicle's cost is determined by electronics and software.
These industry trends are driven by competitive forces that mandate improvements in vehicle drivability, emissions, fuel economy, safety, quality and infotainment systems - all made economically feasible by the enormous computational power of embedded systems.
"Vast and Gaia are committed to providing strong technical support to improve the cost-effective development and networking of ECUs for the automotive industry in Japan", said Alain Labat, Vast's CEO and President.
"Vast is supplying the technology through its Japan distributor, Gaia System Solutions, and the V-ECU club is providing special pricing to car makers and their suppliers".
"Our close working relationship with Gaia and the Japanese automotive industry also will give Vast valuable feedback for on-going product development".
Vast's Comet and Meteor tools, coupled with Vast fast and accurate models, provide an environment for the concurrent design of hardware and software for embedded systems and SoCs.
With Vast solutions, customers can design, simulate, analyse, and optimise complex embedded systems as well as quantitatively evaluate performance while running real software applications.
Vast technology is in use in over 30 companies worldwide in the semiconductor, automotive electronics, wireless devices, and consumer electronics industries.
Users include Infineon, Agere and Toshiba.
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