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 | Continental and Microsoft Connect Car Makers in Two Continents With Next Generation In-Vehicle Multimedia SystemsPublished 2009-01-09 10:00By Continental |
Consumer Electronics & Cars Unite
Continental understands the latest digital music, audio, navigation and mobile phone trends and is working with Microsoft to quickly implement them inside the car. Continental's flexible Multi Media Platform is designed to provide automakers with the ability to pick and choose from a variety of features, including: a car radio; CD/DVD player; navigation system; the ability to connect mobile audio and video players, USB devices or memory cards; or connect mobile phones using Bluetooth wireless technology.
The scaleable platform also features a full internet browser and a web radio. Furthermore, the Multi Media Platform allows the viewing of office documents such as Word or PowerPoint attachments in the car. The Platform comes with an innovative multi-modal HMI concept that can be operated via a touch pad - used for handwriting recognition as well as a pointing or scrolling device. In addition the system can also be used with a touch-screen to intuitively select elements or buttons seen on the large high resolution color display.
A key selling point of Continental's Multi Media Platform is the Microsoft Auto operating system. It is designed as a flexible Operating System that is capable of accommodating software updates. By simply updating the system software, the in-vehicle electronics are always compatible with the latest consumer electronic devices, standards and trends. This key feature helps automakers "future-proof their vehicles" by ensuring that the car is compatible with the latest devices through the lifetime of the vehicle.
"By using Microsoft Auto, Continental is able to quickly react to the
latest market trends and benefit from a large development eco-system that
already provides lots of applications and services. This allows us to add
further applications and services available in the Microsoft eco-system
without huge development efforts. At the same time it enables Continental to
focus stronger on their core competencies to enhance the in car system with
driver assistance, safety and comfort applications," said Dr.
High-Tech Hardware
Continental engineers have created the MMP design and developed the navigation software. The system connects to the vehicle architecture via either the:
-- Controller Area Network (CAN) bus which has a data rate of up to 1 Megabit per second, or the
-- Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) bus, an in-vehicle network designed to process multimedia content at a data rate of up to 150 Megabits per second.
The system's basic hardware design contains a high-performance processor which handles all the AM and FM signal processing and provides interfaces to mobile audio and video players, USB devices, memory cards or Bluetooth wireless technology.
In a high end version, an additional multimedia processor and a high graphic accelerator provide extra calculation power to enable high end 3D graphics and offer an even broader range of applications and interfaces.
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