Automotive Electronics

Infineon has introduced six automotive linear regulators, protected against 40 or 45V, and supplying 3.3 or 5V at up 500mA, some with enable, watchdog or reset circuits (see the table below). Picking the TLS820F3ELV50 as an example, it has an input range of 3 to 42V (45V abs max) and outputs 5V ±2% at up to 200mA. “These regulators are ...

Lee Harrison, Director, Product Marketing at Siemens EDA covers trends in the testing market, software defined vehicles, V2X, security, and advanced automotive hardware, such as multi-die chips to help scale complexity in a cost-effective way. He also talks AI and the use of SSN (streaming scanned networks) and why it represents a once in a decade testing technology. Note that ...

Intel has announced a discrete graphics processing unit, aimed at vehicles being shipped in 2025. ‘Arc Graphics for Automotive’, or A760A, has 28 of the company’s Xe GPU cores, 28 ray tracing units, 448 matrix engines (XMX) for AI and 448 vector engines. It will be software-compatible with the GPUs integrated into its software-defined-vehicle processors, and used as an add-on ...

Fortec UK is to distribute an Aaeon Pico-ITX board with a NXP i.MX8M Plus processor, which has quad 1.6GHz Arm Cortex-A53 cores. Called Pico-IMX8PL (PICOIMX8PL-A10-0001) and measuring 72 x 100mm, the “board delivers exceptional computing power and versatility in a remarkably compact form factor”, said Fortec. To this, the on-board machine learning accelerator adds 2.3 Top/s. Memory includes 2Gbyte of LPDDR4, ...

Different parts of the world are contributing to the global transition towards EVs by exploring diverse educational approaches and regional differences, says Samudrapom Dam. The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is rapidly transforming the automotive industry and transportation landscape. To meet the growing demand for sustainable mobility solutions, a skilled workforce well versed in EV engineering is crucial. Transportation is one ...

If the consumer appeal of electric vehicles is to be maximised, keeping down the total cost of ownership is imperative, urges Till Wagner. One of the key areas where a real difference to increasing consumer appeal can be made is an electric vehicle’s (EV) energy storage reserves. The battery pack is an essential element of any EV design and one ...

The progress made in the electrification for passenger vehicles has led to an examination of batteries and charging technology for HGVs, observes Mark Patrick. Good progress has been made with passenger vehicles offering multiple electric models in a variety of categories, ranging from ‘ultra-compacts’ to sedans and pick-up trucks. Recently, the automotive industry began to electrify vans and similarly sized ...

Challenges faced by automotive chip designers include longer than average expected lifespans and rigorous functional safety standards, explains Paul Martin. The expected lifetime for the vast majority of chips is typically a few years, but chips for automotive use have an expected lifespan of 10 to 15 years, to match the lifespan of the average car, and a supply lifetime ...

Microchip Technology has announced a 32bit 200MHz version of its dsPIC33 series of DSP-heavy MCUs. dsPIC33A, as the family will be called, is aimed at fast closed-loop control of PSUs and motors. As with earlier dsPIC processors, the parts remain a combination of CPU and maths accelerator (‘DSP engine’), rather than a pure DSP architecture. In this fifth generation, the ...

Lumissil Microsystems has created a pair of LED drivers that include a 32MHz 8051 microcontroller. “These new controllers enable lighting engineers to create customised dynamic LED lighting animations tailored to their system requirements,” according to the company. “They feature integrated non-volatile memory to store animation sequences and LED parameters, essential for dynamic lighting effects such as colour transitions, pulsing, fading ...