FlexRay is a serial, deterministic bus system for real-time control applications. It is designed for future requirements of in-vehicle control applications, providing data transmission rates up to 10 Mbit/s. FlexRay is designed for collision-free data communication. The nodes do not arbitrate and the FlexRay Communication Controller (CC) guarantees a collision-free bus access during normal operation. The FlexRay bus system is patent-protected by the international FlexRay consortium. The consortium defines and publishes the requirements for FlexRay bus systems, for the data-link layer, the physical layer and all other requisite application layers. The TLE9221SX FlexRay transceiver is a FlexRay bus driver (BD) and it accomplishes the physical interface between the Communication Controller and the bus medium. Fully compliant with the FlexRay Electrical Physical Layer Specification, version 3.0.1 (acronym EPL).
Summary of Features:
Compliant with the FlexRay Electrical Physical Layer Specification, version 3.0.1
Optimized for time-triggered in-vehicle networks with data transmission rates from 1 Mbit/s up to 10 Mbit/s
Optimized electromagnetic immunity (EMI)
Very low electromagnetic emission (EME), supporting large networks and complex bus topologies
Best-in-class ESD robustness of +/-10 kV according to HBM and +/-11 kV according to IEC61000-4-2
Supports 60 ns minimum bit time
Optimized digital inputs to minimize jitter
Integrated Bus Guardian Interface
Bus failure protection and error detection
Automatic voltage adaptation on the digital interface pins
High current digital outputs, optimized to drive long wires and high capacitive loads
