Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique making it possible to transmit and receive communication data among multiple types of networks in an in-vehicle network having the networks therein. An in-vehicle-data relaying device according to the present invention relays communication data to a different in-vehicle-data relaying device when the transmission destination of the communication data is a network not directly connected to the in-vehicle-data relaying device.

Abstract: In order to correctly execute a control task in a FlexRay-based vehicle-mounted network system, data synchronization must be guaranteed by completing transmission/reception of all data within a communication cycle. The control task is called in synchronization with a communication cycle. Frames within a communication cycle are partitioned into a first-half slot group and a second-half slot group, each of which is a set of consecutive frames. During the slots of the first-half slot group, a data transmission/reception unit writes transmission frames of the second-half slot group and reads the reception frames of the second-half slot group. During the slots of the second-half slot group, the transmission/reception unit writes the transmission frames, and reads the reception frames, of the first-half slot group.

Abstract: There is provided means enabling effective selection of a method of combining software assets in the development of software that is hierarchized and segmented into components. Control software 101 created with a control software development tool 102 includes an application 103 which executes a control calculation process, a connection layer 104 which connects software components with each other, and basic software 114. In conventional software configurations, combination of software components hierarchized in the basic software is described by a standard I/F 108, and thus it has been difficult to flexibly change the method of combining software components adapting to the design change of the software. In the present invention, flexible selection of the method of combining software components is made possible by using template description for the method of combining software components.

Abstract: The automotive control system includes a first subsystem, a second subsystem and an adaptive cruise control system. The first and second subsystems and the adaptive cruise control system are interconnected through their gateway ECUs and the FlexRay. Each of the gateway ECUs has a time tagging unit that tags the received data with time information of their reception.