A Fujitsu engineering makes the case for the 1394 Automotive network specification, arguing that it outperforms other infortainment network technologies in terms of bandwidth, flexibility, cost effectiveness and technological features.

Understand the key attributes and tradeoffs of these basic signaling interfaces

Apollo 13 astronaut Ken Mattingly stresses teamwork as the real hero of the famous space saga: thousands of people doing their absolute best. It's a good lesson for a hard time.

Rules 11 through 15 of Netrino's list of bug killers for firmware coding include how to deal with global variables and keywords. Michael Barr also weighs in on brace style.

Users should have just one platform to serve all their needs. Virtualization makes that a reality.

Automotive DesignLine's new guest blogger, Morry Marshall of Semico Research Corp., says the U.S. auto industry ignores the MOST infotainment standard at its peril.

A former automotive executive has been nominated by the Obama administration to be deputy education secretary.

The editorial team of EETimes Europe has selected the following five products as products of the week ending May 1th.

Why isn't GM promoting the hell out of its 2009 Chevy Malibu, which is getting rave reviews?

HEV and electric drives require an in-car infrastructure that monitors currents, voltages and battery status. The article compares two competing technical approaches: magnetic sensors and shunt modules.

HEV and electric drives require an in-car infrastructure that monitors currents, voltages and battery status. The article compares two competing technical approaches: magnetic sensors and shunt modules.

With its Aviage HMI Suite, QNX allows developers of embedded devices to implement Human-Machine interfaces in Adobe Flash, eliminating the necessity to code the user interface with graphical APIs or toolkits. Now the Canadian software vendor has rolled the version 2.0 of the software.

Investment in software requirements management, equal to that made for design and coding, is necessary to secure a firm foundation on which to construct a successful project.

Configuration management systems help to deliver coordinated high quality and highly reliable software and hardware by easily identifying features and functional content within a particular software and hardware availability

This three part series describes Fault Tree Analysis for safety evaluation, and use of the UML profiling mechanism to create a safety analysis profile, including the definition of its normative metamodel. Part 3: FTA of a surgical anesthesia ventilator.

Expect to see RF replace IR in your array of wireless remote controls.

Embattled General Motors has sold more than 16 million vehicles with OnStar control units over the last decade, according to a market researcher.