Dear Forum members,

Thanks for all your inputs. Compiling all the various information recieved, I think I can now put together a small useful brief on automotive embedded controllers.

The news about redundancy was surprising - I always thought that even the civilian cars had them by default ! And another surprise was that, in all the posts there was no mention about the MCS51 family. Poor thing 8051 - dont know why it lost out in this race.

Thanks again to one and all.

Raghu