Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Timeline
- 1 A brief history of “Ethernet” (from a car manufacturer’s perspective)
- 2 A brief history of in-car networking
- 3 A brief history of Automotive Ethernet
- 4 The physical transmission
- 5 Protocols for Automotive Ethernet
- 6 Ethernet in automotive system development
- 7 Outlook
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Timeline
- 1 A brief history of “Ethernet” (from a car manufacturer’s perspective)
- 2 A brief history of in-car networking
- 3 A brief history of Automotive Ethernet
- 4 The physical transmission
- 5 Protocols for Automotive Ethernet
- 6 Ethernet in automotive system development
- 7 Outlook
- Index
Summary
Preface
On 11 November 2013, I [Kirsten Matheus] attended a celebration of 40 years since the invention of Ethernet at an IEEE 802 plenary meeting. During the celebration Robert Metcalfe, David Boggs, Ronald Crane, and Geoff Thompson were honoured as the pioneers of Ethernet. If I had to name the people without whom Automotive Ethernet would not have happened, I would name Thomas Königseder, technical expert at BMW and co-author of this book, and Neven Pischl, EMC expert at Broadcom.
It all started in 2004, when Thomas received the responsibility for speeding up the software flash process for BMW cars. With the CAN interface used at the time, flashing the 1 Gbyte of data anticipated for 2008 would have required 16 hours to complete. After careful evaluation, Thomas chose and enabled the use of standard 100BASE-TX Ethernet for this purpose. Thus in 2008 the first serial car with an Ethernet interface, a BMW 7-series, was introduced to the world.
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- Automotive Ethernet , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014