Today the automotive world is experiencing a period of sufferance mainly due to the global economical recession which is affecting many industrial activities all over the world.

Now that we have reviewed the different buses, I want to spend some time discussing a few of the UNI/O bus requirements. As you already learned the UNI/O bus uses a single I/O port. But let’s discuss what that means.

FlexRay is a high-speed, wide bandwidth, fault tolerant, and deterministic protocol suitable to introduce x-by-wire solutions in the automotive field.

Microchip’s recently developed UNI/O bus gives designers more flexibility when designing applications that require external memory.