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Triangulation in automotive ultrasonic park-assist systems

MCU functionalities change for ISO 26262 safety standard

Combo MEMS sensor use in cars growing rapidly

TI, Continental make 'stability' MCU for cars

Students build electric racing car

Slideshow: Inside McLaren's Formula 1 Racing Tech Center

Making roads safer with vehicle video recorders

How small vendors compete in analog IC market

Providing active balancing for series-connected batteries

Slideshow: Is Europe Stealth Semiconductor Research Leader?

Students test Freescale's MCUs in racing cars

MISRA C update addresses automotive software safety

NXP joins car-to-car comms consortium

Automotive safety: An ISO 26262 perspective

Digital isolators deliver automotive-grade quality, reliability

Using parallel FFT for multi-gigahertz FPGA signal processing

Renesas drives eight-core 'big-little' into automotive

Micronas, Synopsys team on automotive design

How M2M, small data will revolutionize the car industry

Automotive HMI: More than just a machine interface

Automotive Ethernet: Evolution in the fast lane

Imagination preps cores for vision processor market

Car infotainment to expand after soft growth in 2013

Slideshow: Automakers roll out dream cars

Honda recycles rare earth metals from hybrid car batteries

BASF teams with universities on materials research

High-speed measurements for electric, hybrid vehicles

Toshiba recognition processor helps drivers

Renesas, Elektrobit team on infotainment

Car infotainment systems need multi-output power ICs

Packaged telematics to meet tough automotive requirements

Slideshow: Diesels, turbochargers power Chicago Auto Show

Performing audio synthesis, noise reduction in cars

Mentor buys MontaVista automotive infotainment software unit

Delphi, NXP update deal with car radios

Selecting automotive display touch interface

ST, Hyundai team up to develop powertrain

Camera-enabled electric car drives itself

Half of vehicles to include voice recognition in 2019

How to meet driver assistance requirements

Automotive Design Features

Triangulation in automotive ultrasonic park-assist systems

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Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Pt 2

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Imperas launches multicore software development tools

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Renesas signs with IMEC for short-range radio research

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ST turns to PCM for MCU embedded memory

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Haptics startup rises from HiWave administration

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MCU functionalities change for ISO 26262 safety standard

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Combo MEMS sensor use in cars growing rapidly

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Channel compensation methods used in JESD204B converters

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Slideshow: Spotlight on Tutorials—Top 10 Industrial Control Tutorials for Q1

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ST licenses Russia-backed Wi-Fi for SoCs

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TI, Continental make 'stability' MCU for cars

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NXP buys MCU tools vendor for software future

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Intel, Qualcomm pioneer MEMS performance standard

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Students build electric racing car

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Making roads safer with vehicle video recorders

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Spansion buys Fujitsu's MCU, analog business

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MCU market turns to 32-bits and ARM

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Slideshow: Inside McLaren's Formula 1 Racing Tech Center

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Tracking down interference in complex RF environments

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Infineon goes to GloFo for embedded flash

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How small vendors compete in analog IC market

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DESIGN West: Snapdragon CPU comes on pico-ITX board

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ARM's Segars plans to turn down power

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Providing active balancing for series-connected batteries

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Technical Papers

42V, 2.5A Synchronous Step-Down Regulator with 2.5μA Quiescent Current

Migrating from the MSP430F5/F6xx to the MSP430FR58/59xx Family

Minimizing energy consumption in capacitive sensing applications

Reduced Battery Current Using CC112x/CC1175/CC1200 with TPS62730

Cost effectively delivering high quality audio across the complete audio spectrum

Twelve Design Techniques for Successful Integration of Data Converter IP into an SoC

Improve Lithium-Ion Battery-Stack Safety in Electric Vehicles by Leveraging Optocouplers to Isolate High Voltages

How to Reduce Motor Size by Integrating Accurate, Low Cost Piezo Motors

ISO26262 in automotive IC development: is it just a tick-box exercise, or does it induce manufacturers to make safer components?

Implementing Digital Processing for Automotive Radar Using SoC FPGAs

Courses and Webinars

EDN on LEDs Part 2: LED Lighting System Design

Connectivity Solutions for Next Gen Industrial Automation and Control

In-vehicle product differentiation: open standards vs open source

Teardowns

Electric motorbike teardown

Video: Tear down that Prius!

Sperry vertical gyro for Boeing 747

Under the Hood: MotoGP electronics is where the rubber meets the road

CMOS power amplifiers penetrating 3G handsets

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Reference Designs

Lattice adds over 90 reference designs for PLDs

Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs.
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Quantenna debuts 802.11n 4x4 MIMO wireless video bridge ref design

Quantenna Communications Inc. has debuted a complete reference design based on its QHS600 IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) 4x4 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) chipset.
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Products

Multilayer stacked capacitors offer high temperature reliability

Sharp expands display line

Power module simplifies automotive design

Microchip expands LIN 2.1/ SAE J2602-2 portfolio

NKK adds brushed chrome to IP65-rated pushbutton series

Voltage supervisor features watchdog, manual reset and dual-outputs

Translator converts sine waves into low phase noise logic level signals

DC/DC controller employs just one inductor

Power Metal Strip resistor features wide side terminal construction

Tact switches target sensitive applications

News, Analysis, and Opinion

Mobile video streaming drives demand for networking semiconductors in cars

MOST Forum sheds light on the future of automotive optical data communications

Slideshow: Is Europe Stealth Semiconductor Research Leader?

Geo Semi tackles video analytics

GapSense unclogs WiFi channels

China Fabless: Allwinner's secret to tablet IC success

Connected people meet the connected car

Mentor Graphics expands automotive Linux infotainment business

Brussels Calling: Qualcomm wins in a wasteful industry

Broadcom: Time to prepare for the end of Moore’s Law

Commentary

ARM TechCon 2013 – Call for Papers Now Open

Clive Maxfield

Now in its seventh year, ARM TechCon is ranked one of the top three critical events in the embedded sector.

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Your chance to win an Exploration & Discovery experience and go behind the scenes at NASA!

Clive Maxfield

Littelfuse's Speed2Design Exploration & Discovery program brings engineers behind-the-scenes at NASA's Ames Research and Johnson Space Centers.

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This sounds like the chance of a lifetime -- I'd already have entered myself, but I'm not allowed to ...

What were they thinking: exhibiting at DAC

Brian Bailey

Every year there are new companies exhibiting at DAC and we all know that most of them will not be back. Here are two very likely candidates for that list…

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There was an Embedded Systems Conference a few years back where on of the booths had a genuine T-Rex ...

Was I just talking to an artificial intelligence?

Clive Maxfield

This may sound a little crazy, but I seriously think I may have just had my first conversation with an artificial intelligence.

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Interesting...

Slideshow: Astronaut sings Bowie in space

Anne-Francoise Pele

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, the first music video made in space, has rocketed him across the web.

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Inspiration - pure and simple!!! Spectacular work Commander Hadfield.

Front-seat TV unwelcome in US auto market

Charles Murray

Front-seat television technology is beginning to creep into the worldwide automotive market, but regulators, automakers and suppliers say it's unlikely to take hold in the US.

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And yet, my RV multifunction NAV/entertainment unit in the dashboard will display full motion video ...

Recent Comments

eewiz  05.23.2013
Europe launches $12 billion chip support campaign
Good Intentions. But honestly I doubt the outcomes. Atleast its good news for NXP/INFN/ST/Atmel ...
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elih66  05.23.2013
Intel's new CEO shakes things up
Let's see, most of the big smartphone companies use version of ARM with some customization, I cannot ...
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peter.clarke  05.23.2013
London Calling: Amazon 'Coins' its own currency
An interesting point. If Amazon did decide to pay staff in Coin could the company argue that ...
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Silicon Valley Nation: What should your EV sound like?

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Key fob foibles

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Who holds power in wireless charging?

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Top 10 automotive electronics stories of 2012

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How eight engineers designed the next EV

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The Automotive Designline is edited by Anne-Francoise Pelé who also edits the EE Times' Military & Aerospace DesignLine, Test&Measurement Designline, Medical DesignLine and Smart Energy Designline.

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