Automotive Electronics

Automotive electronic system sales will have a CAGR of 5.4% from 2016 through 2021, says IC Insights.

Vishay has introduced 13 200V and 600V FRED ‘Pt’ ultra-fast recovery rectifiers in its SlimDPAK (TO-252AE) package, which is 1.3mm thick. Better thermal performance is claimed compared to the footprint-compatible DPAK (TO-252AA) package, due to a 14% larger heatsink area. Each is available in automotive grade, or a commercial/industrial versions optimised for telecoms use. Intended applications for the AEC-Q101-qualified automotive ...

Coilcraft’s has introduced a series of current sense transformers, operating up to 40A over 400Hz to 1MHz, and offering 4,000Vrms isolation voltage between the sense and output windings, using insulation reinforced to UL 60950-1. To minimise power loss, the resistance of the sense coil is very low: 840μΩ in all versions of the series, dubbed CST2020. Available in four turns ratios ...

Renesas has announced an automotive infotainment SoC for 3D graphics displays in entry-level cars.

In-car communication networks are likely to be based on the Ethernet standard these days. As data requirements increase car manufacturers are looking to automotive Ethernet as a replacement for the media oriented systems transport (MOST) bus. Keysight Technologies has this trend in mind with the introduction of a suite of BroadR-Reach, 100Base-T1 and 1000Base-T1 compatible automotive Ethernet bundles. These will ...

DENSO will market a 24 inch automotive head-up display (HUD) which will be used by the 2018 Lexus.

Delphi Automotive, the auto parts manufacturer, is to buy driverless car software specialist nuTonomy for $400 million in cash with another $50 million if performance targets are met. The two companies have been testing automated vehicles in Singapore. Buying nuTonomy adds 100 engineers and scientists to Delphi’s automated driving team bringing it up to around 200 people. Four year-old nuTonomy ...

Competition winners to receive funding to upgrade testing infrastructure for connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technology.

Renesas and Australian Semiconductor Technology Company (ASTC) are jointly  developing The VLAB/IMP-TASimulator virtual platform (VP) for Renesas’ R-Car V3M, an automotive system-on-chip (SoC) for advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The VP simulates image recognition and cognitive intellectual properties (IPs) in the R-Car V3M SoC and realizes embedded software development using a PC only, which enables the ...

BrainChip, the neural net specialist, has shipped its first BrainChip Accelerator card to a major European automobile manufacturer. It is the first commercial implementation of a hardware-accelerated spiking neural network (SNN) system. The BrainChip Accelerator is an example of neuromorphic computing, a branch of artificial intelligence that simulates neuron functions. BrainChip Accelerator will be evaluated for use in Advanced Driver ...