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ALS: Automotive Grade Linux

ALS: Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Sep 27, 2012 14:57 UTC (Thu) by giggls (subscriber, #48434)
In reply to: ALS: Automotive Grade Linux by aleXXX
Parent article: ALS: Automotive Grade Linux

Given a suitable Layer2 IPv6 will be able to provide Realtime capabilities better than those of CAN. Which is capable of realtime communication only if all stations behave well.

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ALS: Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Sep 27, 2012 19:59 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

AFAIR, CAN actually has a feature called 'dominant bits' which can _physically_ override the current transmission for really time-critical data.

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