Posted Apr 25, 2012, by John Day
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
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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,
IESF Detroit,
'FlexRay,
Infolytica,
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
Posted Nov 5, 2011, by John Day
SAE AS6802 – Time-Triggered Ethernet – is the new industry standard that establishes Ethernet as a deterministic networking technology. It’s available for download at http://standards.sae.org/.
Although the source of the new standard, SAE International’s AS-2 Embedded Computing Systems Committee, is part of SAE International’s Avionic Systems Group, automakers and suppliers are known to … Read More
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SAE,
Renesas Electronics,
SAE AS6802,
CAN,
'FlexRay,
time-triggered Ethernet,
MOST,
NXP Semiconductors,
deterministic Ethernet,
Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Oct 13, 2011, by John Day
Freescale, Infineon, and STMicroelectronics made major chip announcements this week all focused on improving fuel economy and reducing emissions.
Freescale said its multicore Qorivva 32-bit MPC5676R MCU, built on Power Architecture® technology, provides four times the performance, double the memory space and more functionality than the previous-generation, single-core MPC5566 MCU. With two parallel … Read More
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Infineon Technologies,
L99PM72PXP,
Freescale Semiconductor,
STMicroelectronics,
TriCore processors,
Power Architecture technology,
Qorivva MPC5676R MCU
Posted Aug 25, 2011, by John Day
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), vehicle accidents kill approximately 105,000 people annually in India, 96,000 in China, and 35,000 in Brazil. Seat belts save lives, and so do airbags, and to encourage development of airbags in emerging markets like India, China, and Brazil, chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor and systems developer Robert Bosch LLC are joining forces.
The firms developed … Read More
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Bosch automotive electronics,
Bosch CG147 Airbag ASSP,
airbag reference platform,
Freescale Qorivva MPC560X microcontroller,
Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Jun 29, 2011, by John Day
Features that not long ago were limited to luxury vehicles are working their way toward the mainstream. Increasingly powerful microcontrollers (MCUs), often integrating functions that were formerly discrete, are helping to make that happen.
Take Freescale Semiconductor’s 32-bit Qorivva line, for example. Earlier this month Freescale launched the MPC5604E, targeting surround-camera parking assist systems, … Read More
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MPC5645S,
MPC560xD,
MPC564xB/C,
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems,
camera and radar-based ADAS applications,
32-bit Qorivva,
next-generation automotive instrument cluster applications,
MCP567xK,
MPC5604E,
cryprographic services engine,
Freescale Semiconductor
Posted Feb 28, 2011, by John Day
Freescale Semiconductor has just introduced an intelligent battery sensor, and when I first heard about it I assumed that it was for lithium ion batteries. Not so. The MM912J637 measures the voltage, current and temperature of lead-acid batteries – the kind that will continue to be common in cars for who knows how many years.
Product marketing manager Antonio Leone says intelligent battery sensors … Read More
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Freescale Semiconductor,
intelligent battery sensor,
battery monitoring
Posted May 10, 2010, by John Day
One of the teams competing for the Progressive Automotive X-PRIZE asks in its literature what the computer industry would be like today if Wang, Data General and DEC were still the only manufacturers. Remember them?
Future Vehicle Technologies (FVT) goes on to say that North America “desperately needs the inventors – the small groups of passionate people who push the envelope and bring disruptive innovations … Read More
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Todd Pratt,
regenerative braking,
Linear Technology Corp.,
brushless DC motors,
Data General,
lithium polymer batteries,
plug-in hybrid,
Progressive Automotive X-PRIZE,
battery management system,
EIG,
Freescale Semiconductor,
Future Vehicle Technologies,
electric drive system,
FVT,
DEC,
high-speed CAN network,
Digital Equipment Corp.,
eVaro,
Energy Innovation Group,
Ford F-150,
Wang Laboratories
Posted Feb 16, 2010, by John Day
Mentor Graphics is acquiring the Virtual Garage software product line from Freescale Semiconductor and that brought two thoughts to mind: One, since the press announcement wasn’t very specific, what did Freescale say about the tools in its garage. Two, what nifty tools are there in my garage. Postponing an answer to #2 until sometime after the snow melts, I dug around in the archives and was impressed … Read More
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Virtual Garage,
Freescale Semiconductor,
Mentor Graphics,
CHS Software,
VA-Harness,
Virtual Architect,
RAppID ToolBox,
VA-Complexity Management
Posted Oct 28, 2009, by John Day
The automotive semiconductor market plunged 14% to $16.4 billion in 2009, according to Strategy Analytics, but should see a similar-size recovery – 14% to $18.7 billion – in 2010. According to the research firm, the dramatic fall in global vehicle production, with the exception of three of the four BRIC regions, resulted in the largest-ever fall in automotive semiconductor vendor revenues.
The market … Read More
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Freescale Semiconductor,
Infineon,
Databeans,
Strategy Analytics,
NEC,
Renesas
Posted Sep 18, 2009, by John Day
Renesas Technology America recently introduced a new 32-bit microcomputer (SH72546R) for powertrain control, boasting of the size of its on-chip flash (3.75MB). It’s compatible with its predecessor, SJ72531, which has 1.25MB of on-chip flash. Performance is up to 400MIPS when operating at 200MHz.
Ever larger on-chip flash is a significant trend in powertrain MCUs and suppliers are planning 4MB devices. … Read More
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Infineon,
On-Chip Flash,
Freescale Semiconductor,
Powertrain Control,
Renesas Technology America
Jim Martens
J VanDomelen
Nazita Saye
Michael Ford
Robin Bornoff
Mike Jensen
Colin Walls
Tom Fitzpatrick
Patrick Carrier
Mark Laing
Travis Mikjaniec
Christopher Hallinan
Bernard Sutton