Freescale Semiconductor and Chery Automobile Co Ltd have announced plans to establish a joint automotive lab aimed at co-developing silicon, software and system-level solutions for use in Chery vehicles for Chinese and export markets.
The two companies also plan to explore joint development in automotive application areas, such as body electronics, powertrain technology, hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) and in-vehicle entertainment electronics. This collaboration is expected to involve a wide range of Freescale MCU platforms, including Freescale's 32-bit power architecture MCUs, 16-bit S12X and 8-bit S08 devices, as well as analog power management ICs.
The parties plan to cooperate in multiple areas and a wide range of applications. The two companies, in concert with third-party partners, plan to co-develop electronic control unit (ECU) hardware and low-level drivers, high-level software interface and modeling tools, demonstration boards, in-vehicle networking solutions, body control modules, HEV control units and more.
Chery recently developed its own EMS using Freescale's S12XE MCUs for the entry-level automotive market. This EMS will be used soon in Chery vehicles manufactured in production volume. Chery plans to migrate its next-generation EMS to 32-bit MCU technology, and Freescale's MPC55xx family of power architecture MCUs is expected to be Chery's preferred choice.
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