Automotive
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5G-Enabled Connected Car to Lead the Automotive Market by 2025 For the past several years, cars are transforming in several ways and are not limited to only transportation now. It has now turned into a state-of-the-art massive-scale computer on wheels. Digital transformation’s impact on the automobile industry is spearheading this growth and evolution and the connected car is commencing to take a considerable lead in… |
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New Rugged and Reliable Devices in Miniature DFN Packaging with Side-Wettable Flanks Nexperia has announced its latest product additions to a growing range of discrete devices which are available in leadless DFN packages with side-wettable flanks (SWF). These space-saving and rugged components help satisfy the needs of next generation applications in smart and electric vehicles. Leadless DFN packages are up to 90% smaller than SOT23 packages and this… |
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New Battery Management ICs Offer an Optimize Solution for Cell Monitoring and Balancing Infineon Technologies AG has introduced a new family of battery management ICs that enables an optimized solution for battery cell monitoring and balancing. Combining excellent measurement performance with the highest application robustness, these new battery management ICs are suitable for a wide range of industrial, consumer, and automotive… |
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How Russian Ukrainian War Reduced Market Share of Global Automakers? The global automotive industry has been going through a tough time since 2020 with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic whose supply chain was massively disrupted. After a gap of two years, the barriers that still exist on the path to recuperate this sector seems a difficult task. The four consecutive waves of this virus followed by the slump in chip production and lack of… |
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Amid Chip Shortage, Global Chip-makers Earns a Profit of $595 billion in 2021, Claims Gartner Higher average selling prices of chipset uplifted international semiconductor revenue of 26.3 percent YoY in 2021 Gartner, the global research firm in the US, has now published its latest survey report, which states that global chip manufacturers have grabbed a total profit of $595 billion through the past year that has escalated from $471 billion… |
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Digital Input Automotive Quad Power Amplifier Combines High-Definition Sound with Class-G Efficiency STMicroelectronics has introduced the TDA7901 automotive amplifier which is a single-chip quad-bridge amplifier in advanced BCD technology integrating a full D/A converter, digital input for direct connection to I2S (or TDM), and powerful MOSFET output stages. The TDA7901 is suited to use in many in-vehicle information (IVI) systems, such as head units, smart… |
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New Three-Phase Gate Driver Unit with Flexible Input and Output Channels for Use in Electric Automobiles STMicroelectronics has launched the new L9908 integrated automotive three-phase gate driver unit that operates in 12V, 24V, or 48V systems and has flexible input and output channels to fulfill numerous applications in conventional and hybrid/electric vehicles. Designed for controlling 6 N-channel FETs for brushless motors in automotive applications, this device includes SPI-… |
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Datacenter on Wheels Forty years ago, when I was in high school, my vehicle had two primary pieces of electronic technology that I was concerned with. My 1972 Chevrolet Nova had no Global Positioning System (GPS), driver assist, or backing cameras. I did not even have power windows and locks (Figure 1). I roll cranked the windows down and up and hit all the locks by hand to engage or disengage… |
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Automotive Grade Thin Film Flat Chip Resistor for Battery Management Systems and On-board Chargers Vishay Intertechnology, Inc has extended its TNPV e3 series of Automotive Grade high voltage thin film flat chip resistors with a new TNPV0805 e3 resistor that is available in the compact 0805 case size to combine high operating voltages to 450 V with a tight tolerance of ± 0.1 % and low TCR down to ± 10 ppm/K. Typical applications… |
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Next-Generation Transmitter Reference Design for Automotive In-Cabin Wireless Charging Renesas Electronics Corporation has released a next-generation customer reference design P9261-3C-CRBv2 that enables automotive manufacturers to quickly and efficiently deliver premium performance and safety features for in-cabin wireless charging. Designed for automotive wireless charging stations, this solution includes wireless power controller P9261 with MP-A13 3-… |
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Low Power System on Chip Tailored for Central Processing in ADAS and Automated Driving Solutions Renesas Electronics Corporation has announced the new R-Car V4H system on chip (SoC) that achieves deep learning performance of up to 34 TOPS, enabling high-speed image recognition and processing of surrounding objects by automotive cameras, radar, and lidar. Designed for central processing in advanced driver-assistance (ADAS) and automated driving (AD) solutions, this… |
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Automotive Door-Zone IC with LIN and HS-CAN Provides Dual H-bridge Driving STMicroelectronics has announced the launch of a new L99DZ200G door-zone system IC that delivers benefits including lower system quiescent current, greater reliability, faster assembly, reduced bill of materials, and shorter development time. This new IC enables a single-chip front-drives-rear setup managing a front-door window, mirror, and lighting as well as the rear-… |
