High-Level Comparison of two new automotive networking protocols: Ethernet vs. CAN-FD
The automotive industry has seen massive growth of electronic control units (ECUs) in cars. These ECUs evolved from stand-alone units to intelligent nodes in networks using both proprietary protocols and industry-wide standards. Network architectures have brought down cost and increased reliability and performance. In the past the industry saw the development of data buses as in-car network standards. In the future the industry will need to expand the existing vehicle network protocols and adapt the standard networking architecture into cars.