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TTA-Group Consortium An Introduction

What is TTA-Group?

TTA-Group consortium is a cross-industry community for technical and market development of safety-related architectures and time-triggered networks.

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Objectives

Secure access to intellectual property related to time-triggered technologies such as TTP and TTEthernet under reasonable and fair market conditions Ensure technology viability over long time to reduce system, component and lifecycle costs Develop ecosystem of products and services Drive research and development Improve cross-industry capabilities and adapt technologies for system and cost requirements of specific industries Establish cross-industry standards for time-triggered technologies such as TTP and TTEthernet Submit proposals to standard development organizations (e.g. SAE, IEEE)

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Time-Triggered Technology History

Research on time-triggered technology at Vienna University of Technology (Austria) since 1982 Activities led by Prof. Hermann Kopetz (IEEE Fellow, IEEE Achievement Award) International R&D programs with industry partners from Europe and USA since 1996 Airbus, Audi, Bosch, Daimler, EADS, Fiat, Honeywell, Infineon, Liebherr, NASA, Siemens, SRI International, Renault, Thales, TTTech, Visteon, Volvo In total >400 man years of R&D investments

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TTA-Group History / Positioning

Founded as a cross-industry consortium in 2001 by

Objective is to distribute know-how and share experience in safety-critical data communication Promotion of technologies fulfilling demands of high safety at low cost Members influence and guide development direction Provide access to related IP for members

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Other TTA-Group Members

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Membership Levels and Organizational Structure

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Membership Levels

committee members associate members

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Three levels of membership:

affiliate members

Committee members Associate members Affiliate members

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Committee Members
Role
Leading player in the establishment and deployment of time-triggered networks for embedded systems Intention to develop specifications and committee members market strategies

Rights
Guaranteed access to IP related to the protocol specification Appoint representatives to steering committee, technical board and working groups and vote on membership applications Work on definition of market requirements and strategy for future development of time-triggered technologies Control development of specifications

Obligations
Active participation in steering committee meetings and events for public announcements Promote TTA-Group objectives within their industry Annual administration fee of Euro 25,000
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Associate Members

Role
Advanced users of time-triggered networks for embedded systems

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Rights
Guaranteed access to IP related to the protocol specification Appoint representatives to working groups and take part in technical board meetings upon invitation Make change proposals to further develop specifications

Obligations
Active participation in workings group meetings Promote TTA-Group objectives within their industry Annual administration fee of Euro 20,000

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Affiliate Members

Role
Supporters of time-triggered networks for embedded systems

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Rights

Take part in working group meetings upon invitation Obtain early access to working group results

Obligations
Promote TTA-Group objectives within their industry Annual administration fee of Euro 3,500

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Organizational Structure
Steering Committee decides on technical/marketing strategy, committee development, standardization of technology Technical Board drafts technical specifications released to steering committee

committee members associate members

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committee associate

affiliate members

Technical Working Groups develop proposals for committee associate future standardization
affiliate

TTA-Group Coordinator & Secretary administrates group activities

Upon invitation

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TTA-Group Activities

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Past Activities (Examples)

Work and agree on TTP protocol specifications

TTP Physical Layer Working Group

Define and finalize TTP physical layer specification

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TTP Protocol Working Group

Standardization Activities

Standardization of TTP
Handled in SAE AS-2D "Time-Triggered Systems and Architectures" committee (SAE AS6003)
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SAE as standardization body; driven by TTA-Group

Standardization of TTEthernet
Preparations for standardization within TTA-Group Handled in SAE AS-2D "Time-Triggered Systems and Architectures" committee (SAE AS6802)

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Aerospace Activities

Initiative to start broad adoption of time-triggered field buses such as TTP and FlexRay in aerospace industry E.g. working group for defining aerospace physical layer for TTP and FlexRay

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Off-Highway Activity

Steer-by-Wire Working Group

Define reference architecture for steer-by-wire systems
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Manufacturers, suppliers and supervising organizations work together Exchange expertise and to avoid double development effort Taking care of legal issues, norms and standards and certification processes
STD CNW CNW GTW

SD FBD SSD

SbW CU

SAD

ASD

STD

PWR

PSD

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Share Experience, Distribute Know-How

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Events with focus on safety-related applications in aerospace, automotive and off-highway industries

 Introduction

Ethernet for Critical Embedded Systems

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Development since 2001

Characteristics
Designed for DO-254 / DO-178B Level A applications 100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s Synchronous and asynchronous communication Hardware and software implementation of nodes

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 Status

Mixed-criticality & Safety

Real-time and non-real-time communication Fail-operational support on network level Single, dual and triple channel configurations
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Critical and non-critical traffic in one network

Standard Support
Interoperable with standard IEEE 802.3 solutions Support for IEEE 1588 Compatible with ARINC 664 Standardization in progress - SAE AS6802
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 Reference Project

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 Cross-Industry

TTEthernet Specification Requests

Business Focus
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3% 2% 10% 39% 2% 4% Aerospace Automotive Defense Industrial N/A Off-Highway 18% 6% 16% Railway Semiconductor keine Angabe

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 Cross-Industry

TTEthernet Webcast Participants

Top 22 companies (Registered persons)
Honeywell GE EMBRAER Nissan Nasa Boeing Wind River Bosch BAE Systems Eaton EADS General Motors SAE International Continental Ford Volkswagen Vibro-Meter NS Solutions NEC Electronics Hamilton Sundstrand Elbit Systems BMW 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
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Invitation to Join

You are invited to join TTA-Group activities! coordinator@ttagroup.org or www.ttagroup.org/group/joining.htm

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The Cross-Industry Consortium for Time-Triggered Systems

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