Long automotive wiring harnesses increase circuit susceptibility to external interference. But simple noise filters in a novel protection structure can boost EMI robustness.

An increasing number of high-power DC motors are used in many automotive applications. Being smaller and lighter than previous versions, they have to draw higher currents in order to offer a suitable torque. The article describes a highly integrated MOSFET H-bridge for this purpose.

TTTech Automotive's automated tool ensures set parameters comply with network design

Several announcement of this week target to the same direction: The automotive head unit. There are reasons why this computer will be a highly competitive place. And why now is the time for future players to claim their stake.

Testing increasingly complex automotive electronics is no longer an easy task. In order to get error rates down, engineers need to set up adequate testing strategies.

More than 10 billion embedded processors, including CPUs, DSPs, FPGAs, and MCUs, shipped in 2008, and should reach 10.76 billion units in 2009 according to VDC Research Group Inc. (Natick, Mass.). The market research paints a relatively bright picture for the market in terms of volumes.

ZMD's SARah family of successive-approximation (SAR) analog-to-digital converters now meets the rigorous requirements of the AEC-Q100 automotive industry standard.

Addressing the need to protect electronic components operating in harsh automotive environments, Freescale Semiconductor has introduced an advanced system basis chip (SBC) family designed to deliver robust electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and electrostatic discharge (ESD) performance for in- LIN vehicle networks.

As software content has grown in embedded systems, the ability to develop robust software has not improved at the same rate, resulting in software that poses a serious threat to safety, security, availability, and reliability.

DDD claims its Tri-Def Core chips will begin displacing regular TVs by performing automatic 2D-to-3D conversions as well as sense and display native 3D content.


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