Embedded Computing Design

ADAS and autonomous car designs are unleashing the levels of innovation unprecedented in the technology business. At the same time, however, AI is turning the industry upside down.

This column chronicles the most notable design trends in the vehicle electrification realm ? and it inevitably starts with the battery.

Flash MCUs have reached the 28 nm process which, according to Renesas, will be instrumental in developing fuel-efficient engines and efficient scaling of the ECUs in the next-generation green cars.

Why are certifications like ISO 26262 only becoming more prominent now? For a start, the electronic content of vehicles is increasing almost universally.

During the past six months or so, major infotainment announcements feature connectivity as the key design theme.

In-car wireless charging is growing in popularity, and the sense of urgency to develop viable solutions in this area was palpable on the CES 2018 show floor.

The vehicle electrification drive, where every pound matters, is increasingly looking toward two wide bandgap semiconductor technologies: silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN).

The automotive imaging sector has started adopting the modular solutions that allow designers to mix and match image sensors, image signal processors, and long-distance serializer modules.

The meteoric rise in the amount of aggregated sensor data will inevitably overwhelm the automotive bandwidth now mostly served by buses or networks such as CAN, LIN, MOST, FlexRay, LVDS, and Ethernet.

While auto-parking systems have been featured in high-end luxury cars for quite some time, parking assist technologies are now moving to entry- and mid-level cars.

Automotive Grade Linux is making waves amid Toyota's announcement that its 2018 Camry will run AGL software in its infotainment system.

High-resolution displays are the new norm in cars for infotainment, navigation, and instrument clusters, and chips are becoming available to ensure automotive-grade reliability for these...

High-resolution displays are the new norm for infotainment, navigation, and instrument clusters, and chips are becoming available to ensure automotive-grade reliability.

Car OEMs and Tier 1 firms invest a lot of effort to achieve low electromagnetic interference (EMI) in exterior lighting applications where numerous LEDs are located in a densely concentrated area....

The CAN bus and its security are at the center-stage after a number of high-profile hacking events that shook the automotive industry during the past couple of years. The intra-vehicle data...

Is it merely a coincidence that both 5G and autonomous car projects share the common implementation time frames of the late 2010s and early 2020s? Yes, it is. But the fact that these two gigantic...

In summer 2016, when BMW, Intel, and Mobileye joined hands to bring fully autonomous cars to roads by 2021, the collaboration raised a few questions....

  Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications and its counterpart vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) initiative are lagging behind other advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) technologies. V2I...

Electric and hybrid vehicles are mostly industry initiatives with modest consumer interest and are largely aimed at driving new business models. So ho...

The technology and trade media is abuzz with deadlines for the arrival of autonomous cars, but pundits and technology observers are clearly missing a...