Automotive Electronics

Alps Alpine is aiming at safety redundancy, particularly in vehicle power steering, with a pair of magnetic angle sensors on two separate die inside the same package, positioned to share the same external magnet. “Redundancy design is increasingly a requirement for automobile driving systems,” according to the company. “The use of multiple sensors was once the typical way of realising ...

Durable and secure connections for industrial and automotive applications. Signal connectors from the 140 series Waterproof E-Seal connectors Edge connectors All kinds of electronic equipment need the right kind of connections in order to operate properly. Thanks to them it is possible to supply power to a particular module or send information between two printed circuits. We can connect an ...

Harwin has added male flying leas options to its Kona high-power compact connector range, rated at 1.5kV and 60A per contact. All the new parts are suited to 8AWG wire. “This addition makes it possible to bring male and female cables together for the first time in a cable-to-cable arrangement, whereas previously we were only offering Kona in cable-to-board options,” ...

Reliable, Convenient Fast Charging Will Drive the Future of EV Adoption For consumers in developed nations, lifestyle convenience is ingrained. We don’t know what it’s like not to have access to necessities – food, water, clothing, housing and transportation – not to mention luxuries. When it comes to dependency on automotive transportation that, too, is built on confidence around readily-available ...

Microchip is aiming to meet ISO 26262 functional safety and new ISO/SAE 21434 cybersecurity standards with a family of Arm Cortex-M0+ microcontrollers with memory-built-in self-test, secure boot and support for Autosar – the latter an open software architecture that allows lower-level hardware to be changed without changing the original application code. “When using Autosar, Microchip offers ASIL B microcontroller abstraction ...

For rail use, Smiths Interconnect has created Easy REP, a lower cycle-life variant of its REP connector series. “Today a number of rail and industrial applications do not require high-cycle life as a technical requirement, but still require compliance with the railway standard of 500 cycles and other important qualified features,” according to the company. “These are the kind of ...

NSPE-HC from NIC Components is a series of AEC-Q200 automotive-grade surface mount aluminium electrolytic capacitors. In five case sizes from 6.3 x 6.3mm diameter to 12.8 x 10mm diameter, the series covers 56 to 560μF in ratings of 25 and 35Vdc, with operation over -55 to +105°C and a load life rating of 5000 hours at +105°C. “The performance of ...

TDK has introduced 250W 1/16th brick (~36 x 26 x 13mm) non-isolated dc-dc down converters for use in harsh environment. Efficiency is up to 98%, reducing heat dissipation and allowing operation with the case between -40°C to +110°C. Called RGA, they are capable of operating from 9 to 40V, or 9 to 53V. For the 40V input version, the output ...

Magnachip has introduced its third- generation 200V Medium Voltage (MV) MOSFETs for Light Electric Vehicles (LEV) motor controllers and industrial power supplies. To maximize energy efficiency in power devices, Magnachip’s new 200V MOSFETs incorporate third-generation trench MOSFET technology. The capacitance was reduced by 50% compared to the previous generation 100V MV MOSFET and the enhanced design of the core cell ...

IONETIC, the UK EV battery pack start-up specialist, has launched an EV battery pack design platform, which can cut the development cost and time for automotive manufacturers bringing a new electric vehicle to market. IONETIC claims to offer a blend of cost and customisation to help accelerate battery pack development. It claims its software-based platform can boost energy density by ...