Analog Devices, BMW join forces to provide 10MB ethernet for vehicles

Analog Devices (ADI) and the BMW Group (BMWYY) announced an early adoption of EB, ADI’s 10BASE-T1S Ethernet to the Edge bus technology within the automotive industry. Automotive ethernet connectivity is a key enabler of new, zonal architectures in automotive design and supports automotive megatrends such as software-defined vehicles. The BMW Group will be a leading original equipment manufacturer to implement the technology, leveraging ADI’s EB for their ambient lighting system design in the vehicles of the BMW Group in the future. Since 2018, ADI has been working closely with the BMW Group on a new concept to simplify bringing Ethernet to the Edge. At the same time, the IEEE802.3cg Group was defining a new 10Mbps Ethernet standard called 10BASE-T1S, with ADI and the BMW Group among other companies both actively involved. Using ADI’s 10BASE-T1S EB technology to remove microcontrollers and move software from edge nodes to central processing units, the BMW Group enables an all-hardware edge node while reducing software development and qualification tasks.