Automotive Electronics

The automotive processor market generated $20 billion in revenues last year with $7.8 billion from APUs (Application Processing Units) and FPGAs, and$12.2 billion from MCUs, according to Yole Group. APU and FPGA processors were divided between ADAS with $4.1 billion, and cockpit applications with $3.7 billion. ADAS and active safety applications are projected to grow robustly, while infotainment and telematics ...

Aaeon is aiming at in-vehicle surveillance systems for busses and law-enforcement with a PC built around Nvidia’s Jetson Orin NX artificial intelligence processor and equipped with eight power-over-Ethernet ports. Called Boxer-8658AI, there are two versions: one with a hex-core Cortex-A78AE v8.2 64bit CPU and 8Gbyte of LPDDR5 memory, and the other with 16Gbyte and an octa-core processor. “For in-vehicle or ...

Texas Instruments and Delta Electronics are to collaborate on the development of on-board chargers and other electric vehicle power electronics. As part of this, they have set up a joint laboratory in Pingzhen, Taiwan. “Having been in Taiwan for 55 years, coupled with decades of experience in automotive power management, TI has built a strong connection with the local automotive ...

A source of stability: four advantages of YMIN solid-liquid hybrid capacitors 01. Working principle of automobile electronic water pump As an important part of the car’s cooling system, the electronic water pump plays a vital role. Understanding how a car’s electronic water pump works is crucial to understanding its function in the vehicle. The automobile electronic water pump is driven ...

The Bugatti Tourbillon, announced yesterday, is a hybrid, with 800hp spread across three electric motors in addition to its 1,000hp 8.3 litre Cosworth V16 petrol engine. Two of the electric motors are part of the front axle system, and the other one is part of the rear axle assembly. Powered them is a 800V 25kWh oil-cooled battery housed in the ...

TDK is aiming at automotive and industrial 360° magnetic angle sensing in high-reliability systems with a tunnel-magnetoresistance (TMR) IC. TAS8240 is designed to operate next to a rotating magnet and contains four pairs of TMR half bridges (four Wheatstone bridges) to provide four separated sine-cosine outputs. “Depending on system architectures, fail-operational concepts can be supported by the new sensor,” according ...

Renesas and partners have collected together hardware, operating systems, software and design tools needed to develop the electronics in a software-defined vehicle. Branded ‘R-Car Open Access’ and ‘RoX’, with it “engineers can start building their software using an integrated tool chain even before the hardware is available”, according to Renesas. “This is made possible through the cloud environment and the ...

The Blackwell architecture took pole position at this year’s Nvidia GTC in California. Caroline Hayes looks at its role in Drive Thor in-vehicle computing in some of the latest models on our roads. Drive Thor targets the 2025 production models, in which more automated and assisted driving will be included. It is Nvidia’s latest in-vehicle computing platform and the successor ...

Samsung has created a 630V 100nF multi-layer ceramic capacitor in 1210 size (3.2 x 2.5mm) specifically for electric vehicle dc-dc converters and on-board chargers. CL32B104KHU6PN has an X7R dielectric (±15% capacitance -55 to +125°C) and a maximum rated voltage of 630V. “A dc-dc converter converts high voltages to 12Vdc in order to operate in-vehicle infotainment systems, for example,” according to ...

STMicroelectronics has added I2T fusing to a automotive quad high-side power switch. As well as current-squared time fusing VNF9Q20F, as it will be known “responds within 100µs to turn off the [output] mosfet if excessive current is detected”, said ST. “Performing as an intelligent circuit breaker, [it] enhances board-net voltage stability and prevents PCB traces, connectors and wire harnesses from ...