Mentor Blogs

There is an obvious difference between a driver’s conscious decision to cross a lane marker – to avoid an obstacle on an otherwise clear road, for example – and an unintentional swerving caused by a driver not paying sufficient attention. Can or should a car’s ADAS (advanced driver assistance system) respond differently to either situation? Continental Automotive believes the answer is yes. Continental … Read More

ADAS (advanced driver assistance system), Continental Automotive, Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) Takeover, infrared (IR) camera, Lane Departure Warning (LDW), Distracted Driving, Forward Collision Warning

Registration is now open at www.mentor.com/events/iesf/detroit for the 12th IESF Conference for Automotive EE Design – June 14th, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Dearborn, MI. Click to sign up if you haven’t already. I missed the last one and don’t want to miss this one – especially since this year I am on the program, speaking about automotive electronics reliability (shameless plug: http://books.sae.org/book-t-126) … Read More

LEONI Wiring Systems, Johnson Controls, system analysis, the GENIVI Alliance, Automotive EE Design, Hyatt Regency Hotel, The Hansen Report, automotive electronics reliability, IBM Rational, the Linux Foundation, wire harness engineering, 'FlexRay, CAN, electronic thermal design and measurement, Chrysler, AUTOSAR, Freescale Semiconductor, Bishop & Associates, GENIVI, Delphi Automotive Systems, Continental Automotive, E/E systems design, SAE International, LIN, power and signal design, NXP Semiconductors, Open Kernel Labs, Mentor Graphics, modeling and simulation, Linux, Mecel

Somebody at Hella was complaining to somebody at IBM about having to do extra work. Automotive application developers at Hella use tools from IBM Rational Software, including DOORS for requirements management and Rhapsody for modeling. They also use software from INCHRON GmbH for analysis and validation of real-time behavior, and the problem was having to re-enter in INCHRON information that already … Read More

DOORS, Hella, Continental Automotive, INCHRON GmbH, IBM Rational Systems, IBM Rhapsody