Microchip announced the industry’s most efficient automotive infotainment networking solution that supports all data types, including audio, video, control and Ethernet, over a single cable. INICnet™ technology comes with UNICENS, a free-of-charge network management software.
INICnet Attributes:
• Integrated network management
• Fast network start-up (off to full network availability in about 120 ms)
• Industry-standard application interfaces, including I2S, USB, SPI, MediaLB, I2C
• Synchronization – the same clock is available at all nodes in the system
• On-chip switching and routing of stream data
• ECU power management support
• Multiple data types simultaneously supported: audio, video, packet, message
Key Specifications:
Why use INICnet technology?
• Single-cable simplicity
• No software overhead
• Flexibility in infotainment implementations
• Integrated network management
• Support for packet, stream and message data types
• Robust INICs for in-vehicle multimedia networking