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APXpress Alliance
The APXpress Alliance brings together key players across the automotive supply chain to build a rich ecosystem of products based on shared IP.. By integrating an identical communication backbone, experts from different areas can come together to build a great variety of products and delivering choice and supply resilience to the OEM ultimately accelerating APXpress adoption and unlocking economies of scale no single company could achieve alone.
Together, the alliance members are accelerating the future of in-vehicle networks, so OEMs and Tier 1s can build smarter, safer, and more connected vehicles — faster. Purpose of the Alliance is to combine expertise, accelerate innovation, and make APXpress the trusted backbone of tomorrow’s automotive networks.
The APXpress Alliance is a collaborative industry initiative aiming to accelerate the adoption of APXpress technology, for high-speed in-vehicle networks that support various automotive interfaces. Members are committed to creating advanced, interoperable products to build a valuable ecosystem for the global automotive industry. This collaboration enables faster market entry and shorter design cycles, while enhancing customer integration and supply chain resilience.
The Alliance welcomes a diverse range of contributors including fabless semiconductor companies, foundries, cable and connector suppliers, test equipment manufacturers, and software design houses, simplifying specification processes for Tier 1 suppliers and OEMs. Its goal is to bundle expertise and drive innovation to establish APXpress as the foundation for future automotive networks.
APXpress Technology
APXpress is a scalable, hardware-based network of nodes engineered to surpass the constraints of today’s automotive networking technologies. At its core lies a dedicated 32 Gbps low-power physical layer (PHY), fully implemented in hardware to deliver exceptional throughput while minimizing energy consumption.
Its architecture is inherently flexible, accommodating a wide range of bandwidth and lane configurations. By leveraging full-duplex transmission over differential pairs and dual-simplex communication over optical links, APXpress enables highly adaptable and efficient data flow - optimized for low latency, high throughput, and maximum network utilization.
A key differentiator of APXpress is its integrated digital core network functionality. Each node combines gateway and data aggregation roles, removing the need for separate network switches. Simultaneously, nodes offer an extensive suite of standard interfaces - including DisplayPort, Ethernet, MIPI CSI-2, PCIe, I²C, I²S, SPI, and more - seamlessly connecting sensors, processors, and displays directly to the APXpress network backbone.
With its low and deterministic latency, APXpress supports redundant data paths using minimal buffering, making it ideal for latency-critical applications such as active noise cancellation and other real-time control loops. Nodes can interface directly with sensors and incorporate end-to-end security, ensuring data integrity across the network without requiring repeated encryption and decryption.
APXpress Members
The APXpress Alliance brings together key players across the automotive ecosystem to co-develop a single, automotive-grade networking standard. By pooling expertise and resources, it accelerates adoption, drives standardization, and unlocks economies of scale no single company could achieve alone — paving the way for smarter, safer, and more connected vehicles, faster. Together, the alliance members are accelerating the future of in-vehicle networks, so OEMs and Tier 1s can build smarter, safer, and more connected vehicles — faster. Purpose of the Alliance is to unite expertise, accelerate innovation, and make APXpress the trusted backbone of tomorrow’s automotive networks.
Inova Semiconductor is founder and an initial Member of the APXpress Alliance.
The Alliance is open to a broad spectrum of stakeholder including fabless semiconductor companies, foundries, cable and connector suppliers, test equipment manufacturers, and software design firms. Together, they create a collaborative environment where common, field-proven IP replaces lengthy, fragmented specification processes. This ensures that Tier 1s and OEMs can access a fast-growing portfolio of APXpress-based products and services with confidence and speed.
Join the Alliance to be part of the new force in high speed data technology development in the automotive market now.