With CAN, LIN and MOST already established, what would be the need for another connectivity solution? The answer is a need created by regional differences in automotive networking strategy. In Europe and Asia automotive manufacturers tend to distribute control of infotainment devices throughout the network, with each device controlling its own access to the bus. MOST is ideally suited for this approach.
In the United States automakers tend to concentrate functionality into the head-end unit of a vehicle’s infotainment networking system, an approach not particularly well suited for MOST. But, due to this approach, US automakers are faced with issues that are causing further integration to become increasingly complicated, more expensive, and inherently noisy. SMSC, a Hauppauge, New York company has introduced the eLITE connectivity solution, which provides a way for US automakers to design a simpler, more cost-effective infotainment system, which overcomes those problems and uses fewer components than current solutions such as an analog plus CAN network.
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eLITE is an ideal solution for US automakers. Car manufacturers tend to be slow to adopt new approaches and the design cycle is long, but eLITE is worth a very good look.
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