ASDWire distribution date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:33:00 GMT +0100

SAE / TTA-Group Open Forum on Deterministic Ethernet and Time-Triggered Technology

Vienna, Austria - September 29, 2009 --[ASDWire]-- TTA-Group, a cross-industry community for technical and market development of safety-related architectures and time-triggered networks, and SAE International, a global association of more than 121,000 engineers and technical experts in the automotive, aerospace and commercial-vehicle industries, are hosting an open forum on next-generation networks and open architectures. A key topic of this event will be the reduction of system complexity and open distributed architectures for critical applications using deterministic Ethernet and time-triggered networking. The event will be held the day before the SAE AeroTech Congress in the same venue.

TTA-Group has designed this open forum to provide a platform for the exchange of know-how by industry experts and to discuss the benefits, power and maturity of key time-triggered technologies such as TTP®, FlexRayTM and TTEthernetTM. Further topics covered are synchronous and deterministic Ethernet, time-triggered architectures, and reusable COTS platforms. Participants get information on the newest programs, related products, IP, technologies and standardization roadmaps.

In conjunction with Ethernet, the time-triggered paradigm incorporated in TTEthernet facilitates the design of mixed criticality systems and helps to reliably handle non-critical and critical functions. This will establish Ethernet as a high-bandwidth network protocol for time-, mission-, and safety-critical systems. It is expected that broader use of Ethernet will reduce costs and enhance design of open and scalable electronics architectures for space, aerospace, defense, ground vehicles and other industry applications. TTP and TTEthernet are currently being standardized by SAE International.

About TTA-Group
TTA-Group is a cross-industry community for technical and market development of safety-related architectures and time-triggered networks. Its objective is to share experience and distribute know-how in the area of safety-critical data communication. Members benefit from the successful deployment of low-cost data communication systems for safety-critical applications that fulfill safety requirements at the aerospace level.

Further information on TTA-Group can be found at www.ttagroup.org.

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