Elektrobit (EB) Fact Sheet

Overview Elektrobit (EB) is an award-winning and visionary global supplier of embedded solutions, cloud and engineering services for the automotive industry.

A leader in automotive software, with over 25 years serving the industry, EB’s products and solutions power over 70 million vehicles and offer flexible, innovative software solutions for connected car infrastructure, human machine interface (HMI) technologies, navigation, driver assistance, electronic control units (ECUs), and software engineering services. EB, a standalone company within Continental AG, is a dedicated partner to the automotive industry, providing technologies and flexible software platforms, tools and services to help auto manufacturers such as Audi, BMW, Daimler, Ford, GM and Volkswagen deliver the safest and most secure vehicles on the market.

Automotive products:  EB GUIDE – a development platform for multimodal HMIs for infotainment systems and digital instrument clusters  EB street director – a navigation software platform for automotive  EB tresos – a family of integrated software tools used in ECUs for vehicle communications, based on AUTOSAR standards  EB Assist – a software development environment for driver assistance  Platform for autonomous driving, connected car services and functional safety

Services:  Consulting and project management  Software engineering  Development and implementation of embedded software  Implementation and adaptation of real-time and embedded systems

Awards EB has been recognized with a number of prestigious industry awards. At Detroit 2015, EB was recognized with a top award for its driver-assistance software engineering for Daimler; this is the second consecutive year EB's technology won this prestigious award. The company was also named a CES Innovation Award Honoree and advanced to the final stage of “Software Innovation of the Year” for Automotive Testing Technology International in late 2014. EB has received two Frost & Sullivan “European Automotive Telematics Infotainment Product Line Strategy Awards” that recognize EB’s outstanding ability to address customer needs and product demands; and the Windows Embedded “EMEA Partner Excellence Award,” which recognizes EB's outstanding efforts in driving Windows Embedded designs.

Industry Standards and Certifications EB is actively engaged in the ongoing development of important industry standards like AUTOSAR and Navigation Data Standard (NDS). Moreover, EB supports all operation systems and industry standards i.e. Windows Embedded, Linux, Functional Safety, Ethernet, FlexRay, MOST, HTML5, GENIVI. EB has a long-standing experience with connected services in safety- and security- critical environments, ranging from navigation and infotainment to ECU and driver assistance.

EB earned a Functional Safety certification by the assessment agency exida for its EB tresos Safety . exida confirmed EB software capability for use in ASIL D applications such as electrical power steering. Additionally, the Operating System is certified for SIL 3 used in non-automotive projects. ASIL D and SIL 3 rank among the highest security levels for functional safety according to the ISO26262 / IEC 61508 specifications for electric and electronic components.

Data and facts about EB  President and managing director: Alexander Kocher  Headquarters: Erlangen (Germany) Subsidiaries: Munich, Böblingen, Braunschweig, Ingolstadt, Radolfzell, Ulm, Paris (France), Oulu (Finland), Brasov (Romania), Vienna (Austria), Farmington Hills/MI (USA), Bothell/WA (USA), San Jose/CA (USA), Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nagoya (Japan) and Tokyo (Japan)  Quality management: DIN ISO 9001 certified since 1994, DIN ISO 9001/2000 certified since 2003, SPICE Assessments since 2005  Employees: more than 1,300 in eight countries, spanning three continents  More than 75 million vehicles on the road and one billion embedded devices  First global supplier of navigation, speech and HMI for VW Group infotainment with different user experience (rotary button vs. touchscreen)  First global supplier of AUTOSAR 4.0 for BMW  Software factory for Daimler Driver Assistance

Major programs:  Development of advanced Augmented Reality software—the AR Creator software suite—that will enable the creation of augmented reality solutions to make driving safer and improve the driver experience  Platform for Autonomous Driving in collaboration with NVIDIA, combining powerful computing with safety-critical software to enable the advanced driver-assistance systems necessary for self-driving vehicles  Software and expertise has been provided to Ford since 2007, making possible the ground-breaking system. EB is the global software integrator for all Ford SYNC generations, including the current-generation SYNC 3 infotainment system. EB is also the software partner that is helping Ford localize AppLink worldwide.  Standard and premium navigation, including speech dialog system, for the VW Group worldwide  GM ColorNavRadio developed with EB GUIDE and EB street director  Instrument cluster for Corvette Z51 and Cadillac Infotainment System “CUE” developed with EB GUIDE e.solutions – joint venture with Audi: Audi Electronics Venture GmbH, a fully-owned subsidiary of AUDI AG, and Elektrobit GmbH founded e.solutions, a joint venture with EB holding a 51 percent interest. The joint venture’s goal is to enhance infotainment software and hardware reuse and to enable innovation. In the future, infotainment systems will have to keep up with the pace of consumer electronic innovation. e.solutions software enables infotainment systems to adapt over a car’s life cycle to meet the developing needs of consumers.

Contact: elektrobit.com

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December 2015