Electronica, Munich, 13th November 2012. MTA, leading developer and manufacturer of electric and electronic components for major car makers, chose Electronic 2012 to announce the development of a safety control unit for a car parking brake application.
The hardware was entirely developed at MTA and the unit includes a driver for the DC motors that operate parking brake actuators in a next-generation vehicle. The single most important innovation offered by this control unit, developed for leading brake manufacturer, lies in its development concept, which focused around compliance with the new ISO 26262 standard and its stringent safety criteria based on failure risk analysis for the development and manufacture of electronic components for passenger vehicles. Consequently, MTA used these objective safety criteria to develop redundant dual-processor solutions for this unit, with a main processor and a backup processor to take over in the event the first processor fails and place the system in safe operation mode. MTA is not new to developing parking brake control units, as it has already developed a smart actuator for agricultural machinery capable of keeping a vehicle stationary under certain conditions and aiding hill start on steep gradients. The control unit presented today is the evolution of past achievements, in line with current state-of-the-art – ISO 26262 – and yet another statement of MTA's vocation for product and process innovation. The research work that lead to the development of this Parking Brake safety control unit enabled MTA to gain in-depth knowledge and expertise with engineering to ISO 26262 safety criteria, which MTA will adopt in other safety control units for other application fields.
Electronica, München, November 13-16 2012
MTA: Halle B3 Stand 570