System performance optimization methodology for Infineon's 32-bit automotive microcontroller architecture
Albrecht Mayer, Frank H. Hellwig · 2008
Microcontrollers are the core part of automotive Electronic Control Units (ECUs). A significant investment of the ECU manufacturers and even their customers is linked to the specified microcontroller family. To preserve this investment it is required to continuously design new generations of the microcontroller with hardware and software compatibility but higher system performance and/or lower cost. The challenge for the microcontroller manufacturer is to get the relevant inputs for improving the system performance, since a microcontroller is used by many customers in many different applications.