Vehicle

Software company Vector has gained ISO/SAE 21434 certification for its vehicle hardware security modules firmware. ISO/SAE 21434 sets cybersecurity risk limits for road vehicles throughout their life cycle. The firmware is called Microsar HSM, and it was certified using Infineon Aurix TC3xx MCUs, which have Infineon’s proprietary TriCore cores. “The ISO/SAE 21434 certification of Microsar HSM confirms the use of ...

European unmanned aerial vehicle maker Tekever has signed a two-year partnership with US synthetic aperture radar maker Imsar. Under the agreement, the companies will integrate Imsar’s radars into Tekeler’s air frames. Tekever will also support Imsar’s radar development with knowledge of tactics and capabilities gathered on Ukraine’s front lines, and the agreement includes a preferred partner support package and volume ...

Infineon has released a family of H-bridge driver ICs for small brushed dc motors in vehicles, that include hardware for ISO26262-level functional safety. Called the BTM90xx family, they are intended to work over 7 to 18V, but have some function at 4.5V, and can survive up to 40V. There are four parts: BTM9010EP ±3.4A continuous, PWM input BTM9011EP ±3.4A continuous, ...

Melexis has announced a magnetism-based current sensor that needs no ferromagnetic core, for measuring currents through power PCBs and busbars (see diagram). MLX91235 is gradiometric, taking a differential magnetic field measurement with two internal sensing elements “ensuring stray field effects are eliminated”, according to the company. It is aimed at automotive and other e-mobility applications and, as such, has been ...

Renesas has expanded its R-Car family of driver assistance processors with lesser-performance additions to its V4 range – headlined by the two-year old V4H-7. With 34Top/s of AI processing, V4H-7 is aimed at Level 2+ and Level 3 automated driving, over-kill for Level 1 and Level 2 automation. The additions are: 27Top/s V4H-5 24Top/s V4H-3 17Top/s V4M-7 14Top/s V4M-5 11Top/s V4M-3 ...

Rohde & Schwarz is looking forward to times when nations mandate radar testing as part of annual vehicle inspections. It has created RadEst, a radar target simulator intended to function in the tough world of vehicle workshops. As well as simulating targets, the unit can measure radar parameters such as EIRP (equivalent isotropic radiated power) and occupied bandwidth. “With an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arrow Electronics has developed an ISO 15118 vehicle-to-grid data communication evaluation module. “The software, developed at Arrow’s engineering centre in Gdansk, contains protocol stacks for ISO 15118 V2G. There is also sample application code, as well as support for OCCP [Open Charge-Point Protocol] and Control Pilot interfaces as defined in IEC 61851 and SAE J1772,” said the company. ” V2G ...