FlexRay™ Electrical Physical Layer
Modern medium and high end vehicles are no longer imaginable without using technologies to broadcast local available data. The speed information for example is used by many well known functions: the anti blocking system, the radio, the dashboard, the cruise control, the electronic stability program, etc. Usually, this data is distributed among vehicle’s electronic control units by various serial bus systems. The succeeding sections introduce the automotive communication system named FlexRay™. The development of FlexRay™ had been initialized by requirements expected for drive-by-wire systems. The content is focused on its electrical physical layer beginning with active components like bus interfaces as well as passive components like common mode filters and bus-cables. Comparisons to the state of the art systems CAN and LIN are used to support the comprehensibility.