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Vehicle-maker Volkswagen is putting its weight behind a set of microcontroller benchmarks that focus on energy consumption rather than performance.

Globalfoundries will port Infineon Technologies’ flash technology to 40nm to support the manufacture of automotive and security microcontrollers (MCUs).

At DATE 2013, Synopsys senior vice president Antun Domic, described how techniques for the latest nodes are being rolled back into mature nodes, all the way to 180nm.

The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA) is nearing publication of the latest version of its coding standard intended to make C safer for use in critical embedded systems.

Cadence Design Systems has developed semiconductor IP for the automotive industry's OPEN Alliance to make ethernet the core networking backbone of future motor vehicles.

Robert Bosch is expecting to see major growth in electronics in cars over the coming decade. But most of that growth will not be coming from electric vehicles of the four-wheeled variety, said the company's automotive division president.

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