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Knowledge of the vehicle mass is an important factor to measure the tire inflation pressure indirectly. To estimate the mass change from the wheel speed signals, the novel zero crossing method (ZCM) was proposed. The accuracy of the proposed method was demonstrated using the logged vehicle data, and the compatibility with indirect tire pressure monitoring system (iTPMS) was evaluated by statistical analysis. Therefore, the proposed ZCM for vehicle mass estimation can expect technological advances in iTPMS and chassis control systems.

These days in automotive industry, AUTOSAR has been increasingly used as a standard and unified software platform as vehicle electronics have becoming more variety, more performance and more complicated. MCAL is a software driver which belongs to lowest level in AUTOSAR software structure. MCAL directly access the microcontroller hardware and is provided by microcontroller supplier like Infineon to handle microcontroller peripherals. And in cases for special dedicated functions of microcontroller or for special requirements, Complex Device Driver could be used as legacy software instead of MCAL. The paper is structured as follows: First, the SPI requirements for vehicle applications such as chassis will be shown. Then, the current AUTOSAR specification for SPI MCAL will be explained in detail. Next, the sequential SPI communication and the parallel SPI communication with multi-nodes will be discussed.