From: Tony Williams 

Interesting, and thanks. It looks like Ford outsourced their vehicle
electronics software. I wonder what happened to the old team at Dunton.

Shame Pi aren't hiring - someday I'd like to get back into that line of
work. You have a gain a healthy respect for writing reliable software when
you're testing it at 90mph, plus riding around in prototypes is fun :)

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Tony

Paul Ranson wrote:
> Ford owns Pi Research. http://www.piresearch.com
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> Paul
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> "Tony Williams"  wrote in message
> news:3DC0B83F.80204{at}blarg.net...
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>>Joe Barr wrote:
>>[snip]
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>>>Anybody know what they use onboard for that kind of stuff in the F1
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> cars?
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>>I don't know about these days, but Ford used to use an in-house OS
>>running on an Intel 8061 clocked at about 20MHz with 42K of program
>>memory. The 8061 was a custom CPU produced only for Ford. Basically an
>>8051 with some extra A/D and D/A converters and a fancy hardware
>>interrupt scheduler.
>>
>>The F1 build was based on the standard EFI code you'd in in a family
>>saloon but heavily modified at the code level (as opposed to the
>>after-market chips you can buy which only have tweaked engine map data).
>>
>>As well as running the engine the same EEC-IV unit provided at least
>>some of the telemetry, but I don't know what other monitoring systems
>>they had on board.
>>
>>The whole system was written in assembler and we used to
>>laugh at the idea of using a high level language. The hardware we had at
>>the time (mid '80s) just couldn't have handled the
overhead.
>>
>>Anyone got some more up to date info?
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>>Tony
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