Abstract
The telematics industry including OEMs, Tier-1s, and chipmakers are looking for economical ways to integrate consumer driven technologies and services into the vehicle and creating automotive grade quality equipment, which will provide the ability for secure software and features upgrades thus securing the initial investment at affordable cost. At the same time the end-user acceptance mandates a combination of ease-of-use similar to a home stereo and the usefulness of a TV weather report or the latest financial news by your preferred broker.
The industry will not begin to see profits from telematics implementation until standards are developed, cost-effective and highly integrated chipsets and system solutions will be available and services are established at growing or at least sustainable subscription rates.
Such open service platforms will enable time-to-market implementations of mobile services and leveraging the innovations of 3 rd -party application vendors. At the same time consumers need to be educated so that they clearly understand the benefits and features of telematics and to give them a compelling reason for the initial purchase.
This paper gives an overview of Infineons solutions offering for next generation telematics platform designs. The Telematics Communication Gatway
(TCG) platform architecture will be presented in more detail unveiling a computing platform that has blended Infineons cellular, satellite and short range product solutions - established already in high-volume consumer markets today - with a new, high performance and sophisticated system-on-chip
(SOC) controller architecture named TC1920, which is new to Infineons TriCore family of 32-bit
RISC-DSP cores.