System Architecture for a modular and distributed Solution for next Generation Car Infotainment Systems

The requirements for car infotainment systems are changing quickly. There is an increasing demand to support media content, which is normally found in a consumer electronics home and mobile environment such as DVD video playback, watching digital video broadcast, and listening to digital audio files. A modular architecture based on fast serial interfaces is presented. It allows to design car infotainment systems, which can address a variety of market segments and feature sets with a single modular architecture and which enable the manufacturer to respond quickly to the changing requirements.