Automotive Electronics

Increasing complexity in vehicle design means the distinction between consumer and automotive grade memories is more pronounced, says Axel Störmann of Kioxia Europe. When sourcing flash memory for a new application, in addition to products, packages and capacities, there is a choice between consumer and automotive grades. Junior members of an engineering team may find it hard to discern the ...

The industry and many markets have embraced big data analytics but this will mean a re-think for chip designers who will need new tools to create competitive solutions. According to Ravi Subramanian, senior vice president and general manager of IC verification solutions, Siemens EDA. AI and software are pushing sensing and electronics to the network edge in order to provide ...

NXP is claiming first, for a microcontroller that includes a Gbit time-sensitive networking switch and traditional industrial busses for industrial IoT. Called i.MX RT1180, the family can handle real-time industrial ethernet protocols such as Profinet, Ethernet/IP, EtherCAT, CC-Link IE Field and HSR, as well as TSN standards compliant to IEC 60802. Protocols include OPC UA Pub-Sub, Profinet over TSN and CC-Link ...

Moxa is aiming at rail vehicles and trackside use with PCs that comply with the E1 Mark (applied for), ISO 7637-2, and EN 50121-4 standards for vehicular and wayside applications. The V2403C series industrial computers are built around Intel’s 7th generation Core i7, Core i5, Core i3 or Celeron processors, and come with up to 32Gbyte RAM, one mSATA slot ...

After two of the strangest years for commerce, Caroline Hayes spoke to some experts about how recent events are shaping the distribution industry. The sucker punch to the industry that was Covid-19 meant that electronics components were in short supply and those that were available were subject to extended shipping times. The pandemic saw new car orders fall, leading to ...

Infineon has introduced a chipset to implement its take on electric vehicle battery stack monitoring, using a combination of capacitive and transformer coupling to get cell charge-state data safely across the hundreds of volts present. There are two chips: TLE9012DQU, the Li-ion battery monitoring and balancing IC, which can handle up to 12 cells in series, and TLE9015DQU which interfaces a microcontroller ...

BMW’s CEO has followed VW’s CFO in saying that the automotive chip shortage will last at least another year. “We are still in the height of the chip shortage,” BMW CEO Oliver Zipse told the Neue Zuecher Zeitung, “I expect us to start seeing improvements at the latest next year, but we will still have to deal with a fundamental ...

Lemo is accommodating cables from 10mm2 (AWG 8) to 50mm2 (AWG 1) and currents up to 430A in high-power additions to its M-series of connectors. There are uni-pole and multi-pole parts (right) for for single three-phase requirements. “These configurations were developed for high power distribution of electronic devices and electric drive vehicles,” according to the company. “They are suited to the ...

There will be a new player in the dynamic silicon photonics sector, as Synopsys and Juniper Networks announce a partnership to form a new, separate company, with Synopsys as the majority owner. As yet, unnamed, the company will offer an open silicon photonics platform (integrated lasers, optical amplifiers) and photonic components. The companies believe that this platform will lower the ...

NXP has announced a package of processing algorithms for automated driving. Called the ‘Premium radar SDK’ (PRSDK), the software will initially cover: interference mitigation, MIMO waveform optimisation and angular resolution enhancement, and is intended to be used with the company’s S32R45 or S32R41 radar processor. “It is planned to continue to evolve over time, expanding the list of algorithms through regular ...