Automotive Electronics

We caught up with Heiko Dudek of Siemens EDA as part of our promotional coverage for the 2024 Siemens Technology Day. Heiko discusses why reliability is a critical aspect in automotive design, and why you have really have to plan reliability upfront. He discusses, for example, how the most important aspect for the European automotive industry going forward is the ...

We caught up with Lee Harrison, Director of Automotive IC Solutions at Siemens EDA, as part of our promotional coverage for the 2024 Siemens Technology Day. Lee discusses how Siemens is helping to make sure that Europe remains the number one supplier of automotive components. He covers, for example, the role of chiplets, how the pressure on developing more advanced ...

Infineon has announced a pair of fingerprint sensors that include the sensing matrix, processing silicon and related software for the host processor. They are very similar, but CYFP10020A00 works over -40 to +85°C, while CYFP10020S00 operates up to +105°C. As well as fingerprint reading, finger touch-down and lift-off are detected, and the sensors can act as a miniature track-pad by ...

Texas Instruments has introduced six programmable logic devices with between 8 and 14 pins “with the ability to integrate up to 40 combinational and sequential logic and analogue functions into one device”, according to the company. TPLD801, with pale blue digital blocks and mixed-signal blocs in dark blue InterConnect Studio is the programming tool for design, simulation and configuration “without ...

PhotonDelta, the European hub for photonics, will launch a worldwide competition for new applications for photonics chips at PIC Summit 2024 (Eindhoven 15 October). Partners include imec, LioniX International, Smart Photonics, Phix Photonics Assembly, Ephiphan and Bright Photonics and engineering community platform Werolver. Engineers are invited to use photonics ICs in designs to tackle challenges in, for example, healthcare, AI, ...

Bel Fuse has announced 4kW liquid-cooled dc-dc converter for low voltage accessories in hybrid and electric vehicles. Called 350DNG40-12-8, it can deliver between 10 and 15Vdc from 240 to 450Vdc at up to 93% efficiency with full galvanic isolation between input and output. It features a CAN bus interface (output trimming is via CAN) and IP67 or IP6k9k environmental ratings, ...

Vishay has introduced a pair of 1008 (2.5 x 2 x 1.2mm) power inductor types. “The commercial IHLL-1008AB-1Z and Automotive Grade IHLP-1008ABEZ-5A achieve the same performance as the next-smallest IHLP inductor in a 55 % smaller footprint, while offering operating temperatures up to +165°C, a wider range of inductance values, and lower dc resistance,” according to the company. Offering inductance ...

XP Power has released two baseplate-cooled dc-dc converter series with 14 to 160Vdc (12:1) inputs. Nominally running from 72V rails, they are rated at 150W (RDF150 series) or 200W (RDF200 series) and designed for use in railway, renewable energy and industrial applications. “The voltages available in railway applications vary globally, often requiring different power designs to suit each geography,” according ...

The MIPI Alliance has released version 2.0 of its A-PHY asymmetric SerDes (serialiser-deserialiser physical-layer interface, doubling its down-link speed to 32Gbit/s, and increasing its top up-link speed eight-fold to 1.6Gbit/s. “These enhancements are designed to support the higher bandwidth requirements for zonal and other emerging architectures in next-generation vehicles,” according to the MIPI Alliance. “To aid implementation, no changes were ...

SiTime has announced a series of clock generators for automotive systems, calling them: “Industry’s first integrated clock system-on-a-chip with built-in fault monitoring mechanisms for the entire clock generation signal path, with the capability to alert a safety microcontroller of a clock-related fault within microseconds instead of milliseconds.” The devices, branded Chorus, include a MEMS resonator, oscillator and safety mechanisms into ...