The amount of processing power, software, communication, and data rates are continuously increasing; in all industries and also in automotive. In vehicles the need for higher data rates is driven by more electronic functions in general, but especially by ever more potent sensors, cameras, displays and high performance ECUs. Use cases in the realm of driver assistance (with the ultimate goal to support automated driving) spur the need for immediate availability of raw sensor data. The communication technology of choice for this purpose is often one of the many Automotive SerDes variants that...