Posted Sep 29, 2011, by John Day
Good news this week for engineers concerned with automotive electronics voracious memory requirements. Three firms (and let me know if I missed any others) made announcements this week related to Flash technology.
Spansion announced a family of Serial NOR Flash memory devices that offer more than 20 percent faster read speed, three times faster programming speed, and five times faster erase speed than … Read More
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Web-Feet Research,
Greenliant,
IHS iSuppl,
Automotive Electronics,
SATA NANDrive,
Spansion,
JEDEC Serial NOR Flash standard JESD216,
Macronix
Posted Aug 21, 2010, by John Day
Cars coming off assembly lines around the world today are far more complex than ever before, but are they any less reliable – or more so? I’d say the latter, and attribute much of the improvement to the efforts of automotive electronics engineers. So, thanks.
According to J.D. Power and Associates, 25 of 36 vehicle brands improved in long-term dependability in 2010, continuing a steady trend of industry-wide … Read More
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J.D. Power and Associates,
Automotive Electronics
Posted Jul 21, 2010, by John Day
Four German automotive firms are embarking on a three-year collaborative research project to see if they can make vehicle diagnostics more like science than art.
Audi, Continental, Infineon, and ASIC/ASSP developer ZMD estimate that up to 40 percent of vehicle electronics errors can’t be precisely diagnosed, which isn’t a huge surprise considering that cars these days contain 80-something electronic … Read More
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German Federal Ministry of Education and Research,
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits,
IKT 2020,
ASSP,
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg,
Audi,
University of Stuttgart,
University of the Federal Armed Forces,
ASIC,
ZMD,
Infineon,
DIANA research project,
Information and Communications Technology 2020 program,
end-to-end diagnostics,
NPR's "Car Talk",
Automotive Electronics,
University of Cottbus
Posted Oct 20, 2009, by John Day
Electronics and software enable upwards of 80% of the innovative features that attract car buyers, according to Jim Buczkowski, Ford’s global director for electrical and electronics systems. Vehicles equipped with Ford’s Sync entertainment and communications system, for example, turn twice as fast on dealer lots as vehicles without the feature, and Buczkowski says that exposure to Sync doubles a prospect’s … Read More
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Ford,
Electric Power Steering Assist,
Ford Sync,
Automatic High Beam,
Rain-Sensing Wipers,
Rear-View Camera,
Automatic Park Assist,
Ford Taurus,
Cross Traffic Alert,
Forward Collision Warning,
EcoBoost,
MyKey,
Automotive Electronics,
Popular Mechanics,
Blind Spot Information System