Joachim Schlosser: Development and Verification of fast C/C++ Simulation Models for the Star12 Microcontroller
Motorola is a globally acting vendor of embedded microprocessor products and integrated communication solutions. Paul V. Galvin founded it as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois. Its products in the beginning were radios under the brand name “Motorola”, which became the name of the company in 1947. After the Second World War Motorola’s domain was the military, space and commercial communication. When the cellular telephone technology was evolved, the company became one of the big players in this market, too. Today Motorola also focuses in the automotive sector, with cars using more and more electronic components.
Motorola has five main business units, which are described in [Mot01]:
Global Customer Solutions Operations (GCSO) has no own products but is responsible to provide complete customer solutions. The regional organizations are all reporting to GCSO, the marketing and support management is also part of this unit.
The Integrated Electronic Systems Sector (IESS) is the unit that provides products for the following markets: automotive, industrial, transportation, navigation, communication and energy systems.
Within the Networks Sector (NS) there are developed solutions with broadband communication, combined voice, data and multimedia IP communication and mobile intelligence.
The most obvious and public-known business unit is the Personal Communications Sector (PCS), because in this unit the mobile phones are produced. Also in this unit are paging and messaging devices as well as personal two-way radios. The unit develops the software and accessories, too.
The biggest business unit is the Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS), which actually produces the microprocessors used within the other units and for other customers, e. g. the automobile industry. A buzzword in this unit is DigitalDNA, which means that the microprocessors enable customers to create intelligent solutions. In this unit, respectively in the Transportation Systems & Products Group (TSPG), I worked for the practical part of this diploma thesis, in a team called Virtual Garage.