Automotive & Transportation
January 2012
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Figure 1: Automotive Electronics Forecast and Semiconductor Content per Vehicle (Source: Gartner - March 2011)
Automotive electronics has emerged as one of the most important applications for integrated circuits. The expanded use of automotive electronics and concomitant semiconductor content per vehicle
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Date:
09/06/2011
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Figure 1: Structure of the SaberRD environment
Electrification is driving the need for comprehensive multi-domain system simulation in hybrid-electric and electric vehicles. A vehicle's power electronic components, coupled with the overall
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Date:
08/17/2011
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Table 1: Teseo-II Urban Canyon Performance
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is the general term for satellite tracking systems and covers GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, QZSS and Compass constellations.
Systems for urban canyon applications
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Date:
08/16/2011
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Figure 1: The Die Free package resistances of different power semiconductor packages
The 2011 automotive year started with the Detroit Auto show where the new Chrysler 300 was launched, its headline, a 3.6l V6 engine delivering a whopping 292 hp (218 kW), 41 hp (31 kW) more than
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Date:
08/16/2011
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Figure 1: The new innovative body architecture allows a significant wire harness reduction in comparison to today's architecture
One of the latest automotive design trends is LED lighting. LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) are used for tail lights, interior lights such as ambient lighting, and LED front lights.
Front light
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Date:
08/16/2011
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Figure 1: Ballast-Igniter Circuit
High Intensity Discharge (HID) headlamps are superior replacements for conventional heated-filament headlamps that require about 25kV applied to the lamp electrodes to ionize the Xenon gas and
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Date:
08/16/2011
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Figure 1: Typical positioning of high-voltage vehicle components
Recent industry trends toward high-performance electric and hybrid vehicle (EHV) drives has created a whole new set of testing requirements.
New Drive Technologies, New Safety Requirements
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Date:
08/16/2011
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Figure 1: Principle of Car Wiring Harness Pulse Immunity Test Using an ESD Simulator ("ESD Pulse Gun")
System-level tests for EMC pulse immunity have been established in order to test the immunity of an electronic device or module against strong electromagnetic fields such as a close AM or FM transmitter
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Date:
08/15/2011
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Figure 1: Boost Buck Structure
A main challenge for an automotive power system designer is to deal with the 12V car battery voltage fluctuations. The battery voltage can drop significantly during load crank.
This voltage
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Date:
08/15/2011
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Figure 1: Typical LTC3859A Start/Stop Application Schematic
Many automotive manufactures have devised a clever way of saving fuel in automobiles by using a new concept called a "Start/Stop" system. This system automatically switches off the engine when
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Date:
08/11/2011
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Figure 1: Spectrum of a 250A DC charger used for testing G3-PLC operation
Electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are building a viable market of mobile electrical energy consumers. New relationships between electricity providers (the utility
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Date:
08/04/2011
Its more than 10 years since the market introduction of Avago technologies first smart gate driver. At that time it was the world's first integrated IGBT gate driver optocoupler with inbuilt fault
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Date:
08/01/2010
Consumers are embracing environmentally friendly "green cars" as a result of the rising cost of fossil fuels and a growing concern for the health of the environment. Sales forecasts have predicted
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Date:
08/01/2010
In order to fulfil increasingly stringent requirements to improve fuel economy and to reduce emissions, the automotive industry is looking for innovative solutions. In the future, e-Mobility is expected
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Date:
08/01/2010
With the recent upsurge in hybrid vehicle adoption and almost all major car OEMs now working on full electric vehicle projects, people often point out that this is old news. In many respects they
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Date:
08/01/2010
Rechargeable battery packs prematurely deteriorate in performance if any cells are allowed to over-discharge, for example, in hybrid automobiles or lower-cost products like portable tools and backup
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Date:
08/01/2010
According to IMS Research the number of video capable automotive head units will grow from 8.5 Mu in 2006 to 26.6 Mu in 2015. In order to present the information to the driver with less distraction
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Date:
08/01/2010
In most automotive HVAC systems, a continuous inflow of fresh air is conditioned and brought into the cabin. Typically the driver can select whether the fresh air supply needs to be interrupted (recirculation)
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Date:
08/01/2010
In many high-power lighting applications such as street lights, high-bay stadium lighting and others, the trend is moving towards solid state lighting that uses LEDs as the lighting source. The reason
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Date:
08/01/2010
Here follows a paper submitted by Yole Développement, a market research and strategy consulting company, specialised in the MEMS fields as well as compound semiconductors, power electronics and photovoltaic.
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Date:
08/01/2010
It has been forecast that by 2020 there will be upwards of 10 million passenger and light truck vehicles sold annually that are powered entirely or in part by electric motors. Starting with the leadership
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Date:
08/01/2010
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