NEWS Intel buys Mobileye for $15bn

Intel is to acquire Mobil - and suppliers. Together, The organisation will across Intel’s business eye for approximately we can accelerate the fu - support both companies’ groups and will report to $15bn. Mobileye devel - ture of autonomous driv - existing production pro - Shashua after the transac - ops computer vision and ing with improved grammes and build upon tion’s closing. machine learning, data performance in a cloud- relationships with auto - “We expect the growth The monthly magazine for automotive electronics engineers analysis, localisation and to-car solution at a lower motive OEMs, tier-one towards autonomous mapping for adas and cost for automakers.” suppliers and semicon - driving to be transforma - Issue 40 autonomous driving. The combined global ductor partners to develop tive,” said Ziv Aviram, Qualcomm will keep turns to the future of mar - April 2017 Intel hopes the combi - autonomous driving or - advanced driving assist, Mobileye co-founder. “It ket leader NXP. Having nation will position it as ganisation, which will highly autonomous and will provide safer, more NXP top of table merged with Freescale, IN THIS a leading technology consist of Mobileye and fully autonomous driving flexible and less costly thus creating the largest ISSUE provider in the fast-grow - Intel’s automated driving programmes. transportation options, Qualcomm’s takeover of electronics fourth and vendor of OE automotive ing market for highly and group, will be headquar - Intel senior vice presi - and provide incremental NXP will keep the Dutch Texas Instruments fifth. semiconductors, NXP has Page 2: Intel buys fully autonomous vehi - tered in Israel and led by dent Doug Davis will business model opportu - company as the top semi - Following the acquisition divested its standard Mobileye for $15bn cles. Intel estimates the Amnon Shashua, Mobil - oversee the combined or - nities for our automaker conductor supplier to the of Atmel, Microchip is a products division into vehicle systems, data and eye’s co-founder. ganisation’s engagement customers.” automotive industry, ac - new entry into the top ten. Nexperia. With total 2016 Page 3: TPMS services market opportu - cording to Semicast. Semicast estimates that sales of about US$1.2bn defects triple nity to be up to $70bn by VW leaps into quantum computing This is despite NXP revenues for OE automo - and product lines includ - 2030. divesting its standard tive semiconductors to - ing discretes, logic and Volkswagen Group Page 6: Bosch and This acquisition will products division into a talled US$30bn in 2016. mosfets, Semicast judges claims to be the world’s NVidia cooperate combine technologies stand-alone company Robert Bosch was the automotive to be Nexpe - from both companies, first car maker to use called Nexperia. only other vendor with an ria’s largest market and quantum computers. It Page 10: Microsoft spanning connectivity, “Semicast judges the estimated market share of the divestiture closed is cooperating with D- and Toyota deal computer vision, data net effect of these two five per cent or more in February 2017. 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Nexperia) 14.0% (13.6%) tive industry and con - Page 25: Motorbike Wave quantum com - neon,” said Colin Barn - Infineon Technologies 10.7% (9.9%) sumers,” said Brian simulation puter using data from den, principal analyst at Renesas Electronics 9.6% (9.3%) Krzanich, Intel CEO. 10,000 taxis in Beijing. Semicast Research. ST Microelectronics 7.6% (7.3%) “Intel provides critical Page 27: Vision for The picture shows the According to the latest Texas Instruments 6.9% (6.4%) foundational technologies agriculture dilution refrigerator and analysis, NXP maintained Robert Bosch 5.9% (5.0%) for autonomous driving quantum processing unit in its holder inside the D Wave 2000Q system. its position as the leading On Semiconductor 4.4% (4.0%) including plotting the Page 31: PCB At last month’s Cebit in Hanover, the two companies announced their vendor of semiconductors Microchip (inc. Atmel) 2.9% (3.0%) car’s path and making rework in vehicles cooperation and demonstrated software that optimises traffic flow on a to the OE automotive sec - Toshiba 2.6% (2.6%) real-time driving deci - quantum computer. tor in 2016, ahead of Infi - Rohm Semiconductor 2.5% (2.3%) sions. Mobileye brings Page 35: Product Quantum computers can solve highly complex problems many times neon. Renesas held its Top ten total 67.1% (63.4%) the industry’s best auto - news faster than conventional supercomputers. They have been used primarily position as third largest Others 32.9% (36.6%) motive-grade computer vendor, with ST Micro - by scientific institutes, government agencies and in the aerospace sector. Page 40: Contact vision and strong mo - details mentum with automakers vehicle-electronics.biz Vehicle Electronics April 2017, Page 2 NEWS NEWS TPMS defects more than triple in 2016 Trimble and Caterpillar bring Defects in tyre pressure safety making it easy for monitoring systems the driver to know if their telematics to construction (TPMS) are causing an pressures aren’t at the increasing number of UK right level when out on Trimble and Caterpillar cludes VisionLink fleet, entire lorry fleet and driver safety as well as vehicles to fail the MoT the road,” said Stuart are partnering to bring asset and site productivity equipment assets in a sin - hours of service and vehi - test. According to the Jackson, chairman of UK on-highway telematics to management for con - gle view using Vision - cle inspections to comply Driver & Vehicle Stan - charity TyreSafe. construction operations. struction operations. Link to gain insight into with Federal Motor Car - dards Agency, more than “But, clearly, even The collaboration extends Developed by Virtual their overall operations. rier Safety Administration 23,000 vehicles required though Britain’s motorists Caterpillar’s Cat Connect Site, a Trimble Caterpillar “By working in tandem requirements for elec - a retest following identi - are being warned there’s products to include Trim - joint venture, VisionLink with Trimble, we’re giv - tronic logging devices. fication of TPMS issues a safety issue they’re ble’s real-time, lorry fleet provides a centralised, ing our customers the “By visualising how a in 2016 compared with a choosing to ignore it,” visibility and monitoring collective view of all ability to connect, visu - complete off-highway little over 7000 in 2015, a TPMS warning light he said. capabilities to enable on- machines and their contri - alise and monitor their and on-highway fleet are rise of 212 per cent. “Regrettably, this leap highway and off-highway bution to overall prod- entire operations, whether being used, there are op - TPMS became manda - with tyre pressures signif - equipped with a TPMS in MoT failures due to fleet management. uctivity across an organi - it’s Caterpillar or a mixed portunities to maximise tory on all new passenger icantly below the recom - by the manufacturer must TPMS defects underlines The field-proven on- sation and jobsites for fleet,” said John Carpen - efficiency in more aspects vehicles sold in the UK mended settings. have a functioning system that a poor attitude to tyre highway services from Caterpillar equipment and ter from Caterpillar. of their operations,” said from November 2014 to As of January 2015, all to pass the MoT. safety is not an issue ex - Trimble will be part of the mixed fleets. Applications include John Cameron, general help reduce the number of vehicles first used from “TPMS adds signifi - clusively associated with Cat Connect telematics This will let construc - fuel management, vehicle manager of field service vehicles being driven January 2012 and cantly to general tyre older vehicles.” portfolio, which also in - tion companies see their health and diagnostics, management at Trimble. ZF and Astyx join to develop radar Ethernet specs

ZF has acquired 45 per ideally complements our were integrated into ZF The Open Alliance Sig cent of Astyx to combine other radar solutions after the company’s pur - has released specifica - development on radar for utilised for driver assis - chase in May 2015. tions that define require - object detection, accident tance functions such as “We’re very much look - ments for Ethernet switch prevention and auto- distance control. ing forward to cooperat - semiconductors and de - nomous driving. “The fusion of radar, ing with ZF,” said Astyx scribe requirements for Astyx was founded in lidar and camera sensors CEO Günther Trummer. implementation of an Ottobrunn near Munich can deliver environmental “We now have a very ECU and network test. in 1997 and develops and detection functionality strong partner which sys - The non-profit alliance produces high-frequency essential for advanced tematically shapes the was established to drive radar sensors and mod - safety and autonomous megatrends of safety and wide scale adoption of ules for automotive and driving.” autonomous driving. Ethernet-based automo - other industries. Astyx develops and Thanks to our compre - tive in-vehicle networks. “After branching out produces sensors for short hensive know-how in The two additional speci - into lidar technology last and long-range radars. radar technology, we are fications were publicly year, we’re now expand - With ZF, Astyx will de - the enabler for all driver released as a result of the ing our research and de - velop the next generation assistance applications work conducted by two velopment activities in of radar sensors for vehi - right up to highly auto - technical committees. another key technology cle manufacturers with mated driving.” • Jinhwa Yun of Hyundai area for environmental the capability to deliver ZF takes ownership of Motor has become chair and object detection,” more precise images of the shares of previous mi - of the alliance. She has said Stefan Sommer, ZF’s the short and long-range nority shareholder Han - been working on in-vehi - chief executive officer. environment. nover Finanz and the cle networking since join - “Astyx radar technology The activities of TRW foundation shareholders. ing Hyundai in 2010.

Page 3, April 2017 Vehicle Electronics Vehicle Electronics April 2017, Page 4 NEWS NEWS Continental opts for Bosch and NVidia cooperate Cypress Traveo II on AI car supercomputer Continental has selected performance and scalabil - Cypress’ automotive mi - ity of the Traveo II family Bosch and NVidia are end-to-end deep learning. crocontrollers for its next made it stand out as the collaborating on an artifi - Nearly everyone using body electronics plat - right choice for our next- cial intelligence super - deep learning is using our form. Cypress designed generation body electron - computer for automotive platform.” the Traveo II family to ics platform. “ applications. Consider the processing deliver the performance, The multicore family is At the Bosch Con - power required to make scalability, low power based on Arm Cortex M7 Zhang Xiwei (left) and Giuseppe Simonazzi nected World conference sense of the data that consumption and security and M4 cores with up to during the signing ceremony at Cebit in Berlin, the small AI car stream in from a car’s required for emerging au - 8Mbyte of embedded supercomputer was un - array of sensors, includ - tomotive platforms. flash that helps the de - Huawei MoU to tackle veiled in the opening ing cameras, radar, lidar This will support Conti - vices deliver the perform - keynote address by Bosch and ultrasonics. This is nental in providing cus - ance for body electronics connected car insurance CEO Volkmar Denner. where deep learning tomers with options for applications. There is And Jen-Hsun Huang, comes in. By first devel - Huang announces supercomputer collaboration central body control mod - support for Can-FD, Eth - At last month’s Cebit in ing with more partners to NVidia CEO, added: “I’m oping and training a deep ules, door, window and ernet and Flexray com - Germany, Huawei signed provide diverse IoT appli - so proud to announce that neural network in the data sunroof control units, seat munications protocols. a memorandum of under - cations for the industry the world’s leading tier- centre, the NVidia Drive vehicle, as well as pro - “Of course, our goal control units, smartphone The MCUs are backed by standing with usage- and users.” one automotive supplier – PX, he said, becomes able vide safety alerts of po - someday is that every sin - terminals, and wireless Autosar 4.2 software. based insurance (UBI) The MoU describes the the only tier one that sup - to understand everything tential hazards outside the gle car will be au - power charging units. “In my years working company MetaSystem to companies’ plan to pro - ports every car maker in happening around the car car. By monitoring the tonomous,” Huang said. “Global vehicle manu - with Continental, I devel - develop connected car ap - vide end-to-end UBI by the world – is building an in real time. driver as well as a full “But for the path to then, facturers rely on Conti - oped a deep appreciation plications. Huawei will integrating MetaSystem’s AI car computer for the Introduced at CES in 360 degrees around the we’ll have AI that will be nental for automotive for the precision, innova - work with MetaSystem in connected car devices mass market.” January, Nvidia’s AI co- car, the system works to your co-pilot, will be systems that enable cut - tion and quality the Italy to provide end-to- and applications with The collaboration repre - pilot technology will act keep the occupants of the your guardian, and look ting-edge features to ad - world’s automakers de - end UBI services. Huawei’s OceanConnect sents the first announced as an AI assistant in the vehicle safe. out for you.” dress the market’s latest mand to differentiate their The two companies aim IoT platform. In addition, Drive PX platform trends, such as firmware vehicles,” said Hassane to promote the develop - Huawei and MetaSystem incorporating NVidia’s over-the-air updates, and El-Khoury, CEO at ment and transformation have committed to devel - forthcoming Xavier tech - On Semiconductor creates with increasingly higher Cypress. “This platform of the connected car in - oping connected car ap - nology. Xavier can standards for reliable per - order marks a significant dustry, assist vehicle plications and fostering process up to 30 trillion sensor fusion design centre formance,” said Michael step forward for Cypress’ companies in digital development by using the deep learning operations Crane, vice president at automotive portfolio and transformation, and pro - open capabilities of the a second while drawing On Semiconductor is es - processing for automated adas and viewing systems Continental. “The strong our new Traveo II.” vide fully connected vehi - OceanConnect platform. just 30W of power. tablishing a sensor fusion driving systems. and new applications for cle experiences. MetaSystem CEO Huang said the com - design centre in the UK. By combining this de - image sensors, such as “The IoT industry is ex - Giuseppe Simonazzi said pany would deliver tech - The team has combined sign centre with its re - driver monitoring, e-mir - pected to have a bright fu - an increasing number of nology enabling level- experience of more than cently acquired mm-wave ror and 360˚ sensing,” ture with tremendous vehicles were being three autonomous capa - 1200 years in silicon de - radar technology and de - said Ross Jatou, vice business potential,” said switched from traditional bilities by the end of this sign for digital and ana - sign centre in Israel, the president at On Semicon - Zhang Xiwei, vice presi - engines to hybrid or elec - year, and level-four by logue technologies. company should be able ductor. “Expanding our dent at Huawei. “How - tric. And the concept of the end of 2018. The centre will help the to provide sensor fusion design capacity positions ever, IoT can be made a vehicles as a service was “We’ve really super - company extend its posi - for autonomous vehicles. us to extend our leader - success only by the com - gaining popularity, which charged our roadmap to tion in image sensors for “The automotive image ship in established seg - bined efforts of upstream increases demand for sen - autonomous vehicles,” automotive adas and sensor market is growing ments and to deliver new, and downstream partners. sors and other on-board Huang said. “We’ve ded - viewing applications with rapidly driven through world-class solutions for Traveo MCU has been picked by Continental We look forward to work - equipment. icated ourselves to build imaging and video signal higher attach rates for emerging segments.”

Page 5, April 2017 Vehicle Electronics Vehicle Electronics April 2017, Page 6 NEWS V2X set for decade of significant growth

The global V2X commu - regulations, increased de - evolved through a raft of The market research nications market is ex - mand for connectivity regulations, and govern - firm says demand for au - pected to see significant and development of au - ment and private invest - tomotive connectivity is growth over the next ten tonomous vehicles. ments. It will see further at its embryonic stage and years, believes market Meanwhile, growth will legislations and renewed has an enormous growth watcher Commodity In - shift from North America market growth on the potential. V2X communi - side. Some of the major and Western Europe to back of rapid adoption of cations technologies will drivers behind the growth Asia, especially China. V2V and V2I communi - enhance existing safety will be stringent safety The V2X market has cations technologies. features and help devel - oping applications. With Are we nearly there yet? car makers planning to in - troduce fully autonomous vehicles by 2021, V2X will be one of the major beneficiaries and will see a surge in sales. The deployment of 5G cellular technology will also put pressure on the existing dedicated short- range communications technology. However, both technologies will have limitations, so both will continue to be used over the next ten years. The 5G technology will open new opportunities for big data and big data analytics, allowing the Parents find driving more stressful with children in the back seat, fastest transmission of the especially if they don’t know what they are up to. Magna listened to vast amount of live data. those parents and has given them an extra set of eyes with a video-based The expected high child-monitoring system based on its Eyeris camera technologies. growth and rising adop - The child monitor provides front passengers with a clear, undistorted tion have also opened op - view of the backseat area on a display screen. A digital, megapixel portunities for high-tech camera located over the rear seat provides parents and other caregivers companies. Vehicles are a top-down view of children in the rear seats. Even in low-light or dark increasingly becoming conditions, passengers are illuminated by an infra-red LED light and can vulnerable to hacking as clearly be seen on the screen. they are interacting with “The in-cabin child-monitoring feature is a great example of how others vehicles and de - Magna applies technology to meet the needs of specific lifestyles and vices. Consequently, this vehicles,” said Swamy Kotagiri, Magna’s chief technology officer. “With has opened avenues for today’s drivers facing more distractions than ever, our goal is to continue cyber security companies to develop new driver-assistance features to enhance vehicle functionality, that are penetrating quite improve safety and provide peace of mind.” rapidly in the automotive market.

Page 7, April 2017 Vehicle Electronics NEWS South Australian government funds driverless shuttle trials

The South Australian Australia (RAA) on a and staff parking lots. government has an - three-year $4m driverless Flinders University is a nounced AU$5.6m in shuttle project to transfer leader in autonomous car funding for driverless students from public research and its trial will shuttle and pod trials in transport to its Bedford ferry students from bus Adelaide, according to a Park campus. and train stops to its Bed - story in The Lead . Another $1m has been ford Park campus. This will include $1m awarded to international RDM Group pod It will also include the for Adelaide Airport to driverless car supplier development of a mobile trial three electric driver - RDM Group to begin app to help students less shuttles between the transporting goods at Mobility Lab Fund to arrange for a shuttle to long-term parking lot and Adelaide’s Tonsley inno - drive development of au - pick them up. Students the terminal. vation precinct to develop tonomous vehicles. will collaborate on the An additional $1m will a market-ready auto- The Adelaide Airport Flinders University proj - go to Flinders University, nomous delivery pod trial will have the au - ect with the goal of devel - which will collaborate within a year. tonomous shuttles replace oping driverless transport with the Royal Automo - The projects are part of the current diesel shuttle to a shopping complex bile Association of South the state’s $10m Future service to the long-term 5km a way. The $1.8m RDM proj - ect at the Tonsley precinct Microsoft and Toyota will involve pods similar to the company’s Pod Zero model, which will sign licensing deal be modified to carry air freight containers. Microsoft has announced today’s connected car ex - of Toyota’s R&D and en - The UK company a patent licensing agree - periences,” said Erich gineering division, added: opened its Asia-Pacific ment with Toyota that in - Andersen, corporate vice “This is an exciting time headquarters at Tonsley cludes broad coverage for president of Microsoft’s in the industry, and we in January. connected car technolo - intellectual property believe that to create the RDM Group chairman gies. The agreement group. “When you look best, most immersive David Keene said South builds on Toyota and across telematics, info - connected car experi - Australia was the ideal Microsoft’s partnership, tainment, safety and other ences, automotive makers place to lead the develop - which includes their col - systems in today’s con - should partner with tech - ment of driverless car laboration on the Azure- nected cars, you find nology leaders such as technology. based Toyota big data Microsoft technologies Microsoft. “The funding will ac - centre. and innovation.” “Through this patent celerate one of these ex - “Microsoft invests He said that Microsoft partnership between Toy - citing ventures and we are $11.4bn annually in re - didn’t make cars but was ota and Microsoft, we looking forward to work - search and development working closely with car will be able to innovate ing with the Tonsley In - and for more than 30 companies to help them faster to deliver new, con - novation Precinct to years has been develop - meet customer demands. textual and immersive deliver one of the world’s ing innovative technolo - Tokuhisa Nomura, ex - experiences to our cus - first driverless cargo gies that are powering ecutive general manager tomers.” pods,” he said.

Vehicle Electronics April 2017, Page 10 Imagination applauds Intel takeover of Mobileye

WORLD Intel made a wise deci - “This is targeting econ - sion in its takeover of omy and mid-range cars Mobileye, believes Bryce where you want reason - beaters Johnstone, automotive able graphics at a low segment marketing direc - price point,” said John - tor at Imagination Tech - stone. nologies. The SoC has a quad- “Intel are going for au - core processor and can tomotive and if you want handle six channels of the jewel in the crown Full HD video inputs, and you go for Mobileye,” he three channels of Full HD said. display outputs. It also In the automotive provides multiple H.264 space, the Imagination decoding and encoding Mips architecture has a cores that can process significant presence in various camera images si - Mobileye’s adas prod - multaneously, supporting ucts. The company has surround view, electrical been using Mips multi- mirror or drive recorder threaded CPUs since the applications, which are announcement of the Eye gaining popularity. Q2 in 2006. Imagination is also tar - Mobileye has main - geting adas and func - tained its use of Mips, re - tional safety applications, cently announcing it will which means getting to Bryce Johnstone: “We have the dreaded be using the I6500 CPU grips with ISO 26262. ISO 26262 to look at.” in its upcoming Eye Q5, “We have the dreaded scheduled to hit the mar - ISO 26262 to look at,” ket in 2018. said Johnstone, “for to show this. to security. At the show, though, things like GPUs and “We have a functional “The car makers have Imagination’s concentra - Mips for Asil B. We had safety manager on board been worried for years tion was on Socionext’s to change how we design now,” he said. “There has about security but they SC810, which uses a because everything has to been a bit of a culture haven’t put the hardware PowerVR 8XE GPU for be traceable and au - change as well.” in,” he said. “They have embedded graphical auto - ditable. The car maker He acknowledged that identified the problem but motive applications such could come all the way this added cost, some of the Can or Lin bus is still Steve Rogerson reports from as camera-based driver back to us to see our de - which was swallowed by largely open. And there information systems, signs meet ISO 26262.” the company and some of are up to eleven wireless last month’s Embedded World cluster and further infor - He said what the com - which was passed on to interfaces in a car and in Nuremberg, Germany mation displays such as pany was actually doing its customers. they all need to be se - head-up display units, was OK, but it was a mat - However, he was criti - cured. We have hardware passenger displays or rear ter of producing the docu - cal of the vehicle manu - virtualisation to help with seat entertainment. mentation and traceability facturers when it comes that.”

Page 11 , April 2017 Vehicle Electronics Vehicle Electronics April 2017, Page 12 Etas and Lynx collaborate application software con - Mentor hopes for business as tinued to function flaw - on automotive safety lessly, even when other virtual machine partitions usual after Siemens takeover were restarted. Etas and Lynx Software Robert Day: “The The virtual machine Mentor Graphics will stay we are looking at mobil - announced a collabora - automotive world is containers can host criti - as an independent operat - ity-on-demand and smart tion that brings the auto - changing quite cal security components ing company after the cities,” he said. “Siemens now completed takeover is very big in that and we motive safety-critical dramatically.” in isolated partitions. This world together with high will allow security serv - by Siemens, according to align very well with that.” levels of security to meet ices such as intrusion de - Andrew Patterson, Men - For example, the com - the needs of connected tection, firewalls and key tor’s business develop - panies worked together and autonomous vehicles. management to be sepa - ment director. on a UK connected vehi - Etas will provide and rated from the rest of the “We will be part of cle motorway project that support the LynxSecure system while providing a Siemens but we will keep will let drivers know what Anil Khanna (left) and Andrew Patterson separation kernel for the smaller trusted code-base the Mentor brand,” he is happening 500m down automotive market. In ad - footprint. said. “Our revenue last the road in real time. with Analog Devices. Within three to five years, dition, Bosch-subsidiary Lynx also demonstrated year was $1.3bn and the “Intelligent transport “Traditionally, there has there will be cars on the Etas supports LynxSecure we could not do this our - virtual machine technol - the separation kernel hy - Siemens management systems are a big part of never been an audio spe - road doing road-noise with a version of the selves, so we collaborated ogy could be used to inte - pervisor on Xilinx’s Zynq wants to keep that going.” Siemens’ business and we cific network in a vehicle; cancellation using A 2B.” RTA-BSW Autosar prod - with Etas.” grate the classic Autosar Ultrascale+ MPSoC, the He said that Mentor’s are a technology partner they have relied on Most It will also be important uct and Escrypt embed - The separation kernel environment provided by first view of LynxSecure work on connected cars, in this,” said Patterson. or Ethernet,” said Anil for generating car noise, ded security to run within allows microprocessor- the RTA-BSW. The demo on an Arm processor. autonomous driving and At the show, Mentor fo - Khanna, senior business whether internally to the lightweight isolated based hardware to be par - showed how existing Au - “Automotive is a very electric vehicles aligned cussed on its vehicle line manager. “We now make a car sound more virtual machine contain - titioned and isolated into tosar software could be important segment for well with Siemens’ focus audio technology, the have the A 2B and we will powerful or externally on ers of LynxSecure. virtual machines so soft - integrated into a DC/VC us,” said Simon George, on the smart city market. Automotive Audio Bus soon be releasing another electric vehicles to pro - 2 This combination forms ware applications can co- ECU, while providing director of product mar - “Outside the vehicle, (A B) that it developed product in that space. duce a car like sound. a complete platform to exist while providing safety, security and free - keting at Xilinx. “We address real-time use- freedom from interfer - dom from interference. have to work together Lattice helps Moorechip retrofit bird’s eye view cases that demand high ence. The kernel technol - A safety-critical Lynx- with other vendors to cre - safety and security. ogy also provides virtual Secure application parti - ate an ecosystem rather Moorechip in China has manager at Lattice. “The two processors and these thus connect all four cam - “The automotive world machine containers. tion running RTA-BSW than each providing bits developed a module that processors that are popu - are power hungry.” eras to the FPGA. is changing quite dramat - These bare-metal virtual and associated Autosar to be stuck together.” can be retrofitted to cars lar for this have two cam - The ECP on the other “This can thus replace ically right now,” said machines allow applica - to provide surround and era inputs so they need hand has more IO and can two high-end proces - Robert Day, vice presi - tion code to run directly bird’s eye views of the sors,” said Singh. “It runs dent of marketing at Lynx on the microprocessor vehicle. at 0.5W and so can Software. “Autonomous without the need for a This module uses reduce space and power. and driver assistance sys - guest operating system. Lattice Semiconductor’s It uses a low-end Arm tems are going into cars. “When you have prob - ECP FPGAs and the com - core to do the video pro - You are going to need a lems in one partition, you pany had a demonstration cessing.” lot more compute per - can make sure it doesn’t version at the show. Today, the module can formance in the car. And cause problems in oth - “Lots of companies are provide spatial awareness you have to secure the ers,” said Nigel Tracey, adding bird’s eye view to around the car but mov - different domains running general manager of Etas. the car by taking the im - ing forward it could be in the car. You should not The demonstrator ages from four cameras used for object recogni - Nigel Tracey: Simon George: release the car into the shown at Embedded and stitching them to - tion and other adas appli - “Partition the “We have to work outside world if security World illustrated how gether,” said Jatinder cations, such as lane- problems.” together.” Jatinder Singh with Moorechip demonstration is not built in. We realised LynxSecure bare metal Singh, product marketing departure warning.

Page 13 , April 2017 Vehicle Electronics Vehicle Electronics April 2017, Page 14 and any-to-any connec - Simplifying secure code for car makers Xilinx offers route to tivity, developers can use the stack to develop and Green Hills subsidiary In - ment at ISS. “They want intelligent vision deploy upgrades. Recon - tegrity Security Services to protect the keys that as - figurability is critical to (ISS) believes its Device sign software for their future proof intelligent vi - Lifecycle Management cars. And that has to work Xilinx believes its Revi - sion-based systems as (DLM) Trust appliance across the supply chain.” sion stack launched at the neural networks, algo - could provide the level of DLM Trust adds to the show will help car makers rithms, sensor technolo - security for which many ISS end-to-end embedded develop intelligent vision gies and interface automotive manufactur - security product portfo - guided systems. The an - standards evolve at an ac - ers are looking. lio, including certified nouncement comple - celerated pace. The appliance simpli - cryptographic modules ments the firm’s existing “Flexibility is critical,” fies security development and secure boot for the Steve Glaser: reconfigurable accelera - said Glaser, “because we with flexible public key on-board protection of “These will be tion stack, broadening the see every month new de - infrastructure and key software, data and net - used for adas deployment of machine velopments in machine management services. It work communications and autonomous learning applications with learning and sensor tech - provides digital signature, without having to invent vehicles.” Xilinx technology from nologies. So it is critical identity certificate and back-end security infra - Gregory Rudy: “We help tier ones check code.” the edge to the cloud. to be able to update with - key generation services structures to complete de - The Revision stack lets machine learning infer - differentiation is critical, out changing the hard - required to meet other - velopment and transition ing with them to help compromised. a broader set of software ence, forty times better systems must be ex - ware. You do that with wise difficult cyber secu - to manufacturing. them meet requirements.” “We can help tier ones and systems engineers, frames/second/watt of tremely responsive, and software upgrades.” rity requirements. “Some car makers are He said car makers check the code,” he said. with little or no hardware computer vision process - the latest algorithms and The stack includes de - “Large automotive pushing down require - were conscious of brand “Whenever you want to design expertise, develop ing, and a fifth the latency sensors need to be velopment resources for OEMs are moving to - ments to tier ones to do damage if there was a re - authenticate something, intelligent vision guided compared with compet - quickly deployed. This platform, algorithm and wards the idea that they secure boot and a lot call and this went down there is a digital signature systems. These engineers ing embedded GPUs and includes approximately application development. want to own the keys,” don’t even know what the chain to tier ones who that shows were it came can combine machine typical SoCs. two-thirds of the applica - This includes support for said Gregory Rudy, direc - that means,” said Rudy, had to check software to from. We provide an easy learning, computer vi - “This is a development tions for vision-focused popular neural networks. tor of business develop - “so we have been work - make sure it had not been way to do this.” sion, sensor fusion and stack to enable broad de - semiconductors. Additionally, the stack connectivity. velopment of machine “These will be used for provides library elements Go-it-alone Nexperia celebrates with mosfets “The training part of learning, including for adas and autonomous ve - including pre-defined and machine learning is tradi - adas and autonomous ve - hicles,” said Glaser. optimised implementa - Having finally broken mally-enhanced, loss-free powertrain and engine temperatures of up to tionally done in a data hicles, but also for “When the vehicle needs tions for CNN network from former parent NXP, package which has a foot - transmission control,” +175˚C are possible. centre using expensive, drones, medical and ro - to make a decision, it layers, required to build Nexperia marked the print a claimed more than said Dirk Wittorf, Nexpe - As to the spin-off, Dan high power, high process - botics,” said Glaser. needs all the data, not just custom neural networks. show with the launch of 80 per cent smaller than ria director. “It can also Jensen, general manager, ing GPUs,” said Steve Developers with limited vision. You want all kinds The machine learning automotive power mos - industry standard devices. be used in body control said everybody at NXP Glaser, SVP at Xilinx. hardware expertise can of sensors such as radar, elements are comple - fets in the LFPak 33, ther - “This can be used in where companies are that was dedicated to “When you come to a car, use a C, C++ and Open lidar, ultrasonic sensors mented by acceleration- moving from large standard products joined you want to do this in an CL development flow as well as cameras. The ready Open CV functions electromechanical relays Nexperia along with efficient way. You want to with industry-standard topic of sensor fusion has for computer vision pro - to semiconductors.” some of those who had do it with lower power frameworks and libraries become as important as cessing. The package uses a shared responsibilities. and in a cost and area such as Caffe and Open machine learning. You “We are seeing tremen - copper clip design to re - “We did have to hire efficient way.” CV to develop embedded have to combine all this dous interest in machine duce the package resist - some more sales people Revision is claimed to vision applications on a in one chip. That is a learning from the edge to ance and inductance and other roles,” said enable the fastest path to single Zynq SoC or challenge and that is what the cloud, and believe our which in turn reduces the Jensen. “A lot of our the most responsive vi - MPSoC. we are addressing with ongoing investment in RDS(on) and losses of the products go into automo - sion systems, with up to The stack should enable Revision.” development stacks will mosfet. The resulting tive and the people re - six times better a growing set of applica - Leveraging the advan - accelerate mainstream package has a footprint of sponsible for that quality Dirk Wittorf (left) and Dan Jensen 2 images/second/watt in tions in markets where tages of reconfigurability adoption.” said Glaser. 10.9mm and operating moved over with us.”

Page 15 , April 2017 Vehicle Electronics Vehicle Electronics April 2017, Page 16 pany announced added Renesas targets Positive reaction to capabilities in VectorCast Analytics, which pro - designers with vides an intuitive, web- Vector buying Vector based dashboard of Mouser deal software code quality and Probably the most con - testing completeness met - Renesas hopes to reach stop there. “We will move fusing takeover of the rics, enabling users to as - more design engineers onto other parts of the Re - decade happened this sess risk areas and following its decision to nesas range,” he said. year when German auto - prioritise test resources. sign specialist distributor Synergy provides ac - motive electronic test “It is our philosophy Mouser. The company cess to an embedded plat - company Vector Infor - that quality is not the job carries low stock but con - form, starting with an API matik acquired Vector of a group but everyone,” centrates on supplying to leverage a software Software, a US company said Fortin. “Analytics let Jason Tollefson: “We are continuing to invest products to engineers dur - framework built around specialising in automated you see what the quality in both technologies.” ing the design process the Express Logic X- embedded software test - metrics are. The power of “Every design team is Ware. This relieves devel - ing in multiple industries. information can have a facing a fifty per cent in - opers from creating and Ethernet and Most But Jeffrey Fortin, head real effect on quality.” crease in new project maintaining low-level of product management The company also starts,” said Andy Hard - software repeatedly for set for long battle at Vector Software, be - announced VectorCast ing, Renesas director for each project. The plat - lieves that it has created Probe to provide a simple Even though Ethernet “We are continuing to in - clarity. Jeffrey Fortin: “Information can have way to instrument an ap - core marketing. “This is form also integrates scal - a real effect on quality.” bringing new challenges able Cortex-M MCUs will eventually win the vest in both.” “Vector buying Vector plication dynamically to designers and Mouser accessible through soft - battles against Most in At the show, Microchip has ended the confusion,” with blocks of code to en - is helping that, which is ware APIs, IAR Embed - vehicles, it will be a long introduced the Gigepack he said. “People used to the stand was that they the time was right. There able white box testing, in - why we felt we need to ded Workbench toolchain process and both net - range of Gigabit Ethernet think we were the same thought they were the was no rush. ject faults and debug hard engage together.” and hardware develop - works will be around for switches including what company anyway and we same company. “The integrations we do to repeat race conditions. The relationship will ment kits. some time. That is the is claimed to be the first used to get each other’s “We have had no nega - we want to be meaning - It supports multiple plat - focus on software, devel - “We take new technol - view of Jason Tollefson, automotive-grade USB purchase orders.” tive responses,” he said, ful,” he said. “We will forms and is integrated opment kits and micro - ogy to engineers,” said senior product marketing 3.1 Gen 1 to Gigabit Eth - He said when the adding that eventually take some time to look at with the full family of controllers that comprise Burr-London. “Our in - manager at Microchip. ernet bridge that supports founders realised they some of the products this and see what makes VectorCast tools for unit the Synergy platform. ventory is never going to “I don’t think Most will adas and infotainment could take it no further would be integrated but sense.” testing, system testing However, Mouser SVP be deep but it is always drop out quickly,” he systems on a variety of and were looking for this would be done when At the show, the com - and integration testing. Mark Burr-London said wide. We focus on having said. “It will be a long physical network layers. someone to buy the com - the relationship would not a wide range of parts.” downslope. Ethernet will There are 13 Gigbit pany, it seemed natural to IAR updates state-machine design tool come in but there will be Ethernet switches in the go for the other Vector. a long period of both in KSZ9477 family of “We are both engineer - IAR Systems presented step add functions in de - applications behave as in - the car before Ethernet which four are dedicated ing driven companies,” the latest version of the tail, and automatically tended. eventually takes over.” to automotive. he said. “From a corpo - Visual State state- generate code that is con - Version 8.1 adds variant He said Ethernet was “You have a lot of com - rate and technical focus, machine design tool. This sistent with the design. handling that simplifies “mushrooming” for sen - peting standards in the we match, and we com - is a set of tools for de - This methodology can large design projects and sors and telematics. car, so you need some - plement each other on signing, testing and im - be helpful when realising brings order to the some - “In the future, as we see thing that can bridge to technology. It means we plementing embedded large design projects for times very large number the backbone becoming these functions and that is can do a wider breadth of applications based on embedded applications, of design variations that Ethernet, Most will be our USB bridge,” said testing and make a better state machines. for example in the auto - can come from different more confined to the info - Tollefson. “We will also solution for the cus - Developers use it to motive industry. The tools requirements, for exam - Andy Harding: Mark Burr-London: tainment space and grad - be introducing an auto - tomer.” build their design from a also provide formal veri - ple within different geo - “We felt we needed “We focus on having ually Ethernet will come motive grade Ethernet He said the initial reac - high level, structure com - fication, analysis and val - graphic markets or to engage together.” wide range of parts.” into that space,” he said. switch in May.” tion from most visitors to plex applications, step by idation to ensure the different feature levels.

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Diodes introduced PCI meets the latest commu - just at the time the auto - Express packet switches nications standards and motive industry was en - automotive-qualified to automotive reliability cri - tering a new era,” he said. AEC-Q100 grade three. teria. They comply with The company also in - “These are the first of AEC-Q100 grade three troduced 40 and 60V its kind to be automotive over the full automotive dual, co-packaged en - qualified,” said Oliver temperature range of -40 hancement mode mosfets Woyke, director of sales to +85˚C, while meeting with low figure-of-merit for Diodes. “We don’t PCI Sig PCIe revision 2.1 on-resistance and gate know of any of our com - to assure interoperability. charge specifications, tar - Oliver Woyke: “These petitors with anything Power dissipation is geting synchronous recti - are the first of its kind like this.” typically 650mW in nor - fication in automotive to be automotive The PI7C9X2G- mal L0 mode and instrumentation clusters, qualified.” 304SLQ and 404SLQ 200mW in L1 mode, head-up displays, and in - three-port, four-lane, and which eases thermal de - fotainment, navigation suppressor, the four-port, four-lane sign. Latency is typically and driver assistance. D28V0H1U2P5Q intro - switches target infotain - 150ns for a packet run - The DMNH4015SSDQ duced at Embedded ment, telematics and ning through the switch and DMTH6016LSDQ World can protect sensi - adas. The parts feature without blocking. are qualified to AEC- tive electronic circuits power management, hot- They come in 128-pin Q101 Rev-D standard for from transients generated plug connectivity and an LQFP packages. reliability and supported by inductive switching integrated 100MHz clock Woyke said automotive by a production part ap - and targets a wide range buffer to ease design and had become the fastest proval process. of automotive applica - lower costs. growing segment of the And billed as the indus - tions, including pumps, Vehicle telematics and company’s business since try’s first unidirectional hvac, infotainment, navi - infotainment systems de - its takeover of Pericom. 1800W automotive-com - gation and adas. It is mand connectivity that “Pericom came to us pliant transient voltage AEC-Q101 qualified. NXP combination to support Cortex MCUs

NXP Semiconductors ily of Arm Cortex MCUs. motive-grade drivers, more connectivity and launched the S32K1 fam - This combination aims to however, not all applica - more security,” said ily combining automotive reduce development ef - tions require it. The alter - Alves. “They need to grade tools and software fort and time to market. native is labour-intensive manage higher process - to support a scalable fam - Global car manufactur - self-development, which ing complexity. They ers are already using adds qualification re - want to re-use their soft - S32K in next generation quirements and diverts re - ware investment and they vehicles. “We have de - sources. As ECU want to migrate.” sign wins at ten of the top complexity increases, NXP says it is deliver - fifteen car manufactur - maintaining high-quality ing professionally main - ers,” said NXP vice pres - software and meeting tained automotive-grade ident Manuel Alves. time-to-market can only software to reduce devel - The traditional ap - be achieved through use opment complexity for a proach for software de - of mature, validated sub- broad range of customers velopment has been to system components. regardless of their devel - Manuel Alves rely on Autosar for auto - “There is a need for opment approach.

Page 19 , April 2017 Vehicle Electronics MOTOR CONTROL MOTOR CONTROL Emission possible

Rick Fennelly discusses the growth of electrical motor systems and the challenges for system developers in reducing emissions

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overnments around the ing equal or enhanced perform - crease in staff and development ful – hence less expensive – de - world, including the Euro - ance while maintaining or im - time. Designers are looking for vice. For some applications, it’s pean Union and USA, proving the overall driving methods to reduce the develop - even possible to eliminate the mi - have placed mandatory fuel econ - experience. To achieve this goal, ment cycle while maintaining crocontroller altogether, providing Gomy standards on combustion en - there is a growing demand for the high performance goals. As a re - additional cost savings. gines to reduce emissions. These electrification of cars where elec - sult, BLDC motor control is in - Devices are available that incor - initiatives will require innovative trical motors are being used in creasing in market share. porate on-chip sensorless trape - advances in technologies, driving place of traditional belt-driven For example, a vehicle water zoidal commutation, as well as the demand for increased efficien - systems. To that end, the world pump that is traditionally belt high-power gate drive to enhance cies, placing additional burden on market for electric motors in auto - driven has transitioned to an elec - the external inverter bridge. Up- design teams, and potentially im - motive applications is growing, trical motor. This is needed for integration of functions usually pacting development cycle times. according to IHS Technology, at a start-stop systems that improve ef - programmed in a microprocessor An area of focus will be to de - compound annual growth rate ficiency and reduce emissions. To make such devices capable of velop strategies for reducing load (CAGR) of 4.7%. Specifically, the keep engine coolant circulating, standalone operation by integrat - Fig. 2: Software sets parameters and loads them directly on the vehicle engine. Roughly market for brushless DC motors an electrical motor replaces the ing closed-loop speed or torque into eeprom; changes can be evaluated in real time fifteen per cent of the energy from (BLDCs) in automotive applica - belt driven pump. Other systems control. fuel is used to move a vehicle tions is predicted to outpace by affected by engine start-stop Comprehensive diagnostics can down a road – the balance is con - twice the market growth for other systems requiring conversion to feed back to the ECU, providing ther, IHS expects a 43% CAGR simplify their designs and design sumed by engine and driveline in - motor types with a unit CAGR of BLDC motors include hydraulic detail about synchronisation, over - between 2025 and 2035 to nearly cycles by providing supervisory efficiencies. Therefore, reducing 6.3% from 2014 to 2019. and oil pumps. voltage, undervoltage or shorted 21 million autonomous vehicles. and verification functions up- load will allow the engine to work Improving these systems with A new generation of motor mosfet conditions. Single wire This growth will spur an increas - integrated within the IC. more efficiently and thereby con - electrical systems has created new driver IC can up-integrate com - operation can be achieved by ing demand for electrical motor Conclusion tribute to a reduction challenges for tier-one plex commutations algorithms, sending fault diagnostics over control where system integration in fuel consump - manufacturers, simplifying the engineering de - the PWM input. will continue to drive designers to As the automotive market contin - tion. where these sign of a BLDC motor control The algorithms can provide a look for innovative designs. ues to innovate to meet the de - The chal - innovations system. Proven algorithms have wide range of programming pa - Additionally, autonomous vehi - mand for better performance and lenge is in require an been developed for trapezoidal rameters, enabling engineering to cles will need to incorporate re - improved fuel economy, and with provid - in - and sinusoidal control for both reuse hardware for different prod - dundant systems as a matter of the expectant growth of the au - sensor and sensorless BLDC mo - ucts by simply modifying parame - safety to consumers where the au - tonomous vehicle market, electri - tors so engineers are not chal - ters within on-chip eeprom. This tomobile will be making an in - cal motor systems will continue to lenged with writing and validating makes such programmable motor creasing number of decisions for play a growing role in providing software, helping them to meet drivers easy to use and reuse for a the driver or, with some functions, more efficient alternatives to aggressive timelines, see Fig.1. wide variety of motors, loads and may remove the driver from the mechanical systems. In many of the advanced motor applications. decision-making process entirely. As such, design engineers will drivers, the commutation algo - Up-integrated ICs, along with Companies are manufacturing be looking for cutting-edge prod - rithm is integrated into the IC. An programming tools, can simplify and will continue to develop prod - ucts that streamline their design easy-to-use software gui passes workflow and shorten design cy - ucts meeting the ISO 26262 safety process while providing value- parameters via USB to the on-chip cles, promoting innovation. These standard. The Asils defined by added features that help them de - eeprom, where they are used by let manufacturers achieve de - ISO 26262 contain requirements velop cost-effective competitive the on-chip algorithm. This en - manding fuel economy standards for both the development process products. Chip companies are ables an engineer with no soft - through electrification while pro - and for the design of safety- recognising this need and remain ware programming experience to viding improved performance to related electronic systems in road at the forefront for providing design and validate a motor sys - the end user. vehicles. These requirements products that will meet the Looking forward, vehicle auton - reach IC component suppliers by demanding requirements for the Fig. 1: tem, breaking the time-consuming omy will drive the continued trend calling for more content inte - automotive future. Algorithm cycle of software development and validation. Innovations such for the electrification of vehicles. grated into existing products and development Rick Fennelly is marketing as these lower the workload on IHS Automotive is projecting the capability of running diagnos - accelerates design- manager for Allegro the microcontroller, allowing the sales of close to 600,000 au - tics and communicating their sta - in and validation time Microsystems developer to specify a less power - tonomous vehicles by 2025. Fur - tus. These products help engineers

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hen it comes to simula - and so enable DIL simulation to ability levels; and the facility to tion and modelling, significantly reduce development compare the machine’s behaviour Two wheels harder major differences arise time and cost.” around existing test tracks and cir - between motorcycle applications Hoyle also explained how the cuits without shipping physical Wand other vehicles because of the greater field of vision available to prototypes and personnel to vari - RFpro software powering the completely different steering a motorcyclist influences the per - ous locations. Testing can also world’s first vehicle dynamics dynamics and the freedom of the formance required from the proceed all year round without grade DIL simulator for a rider to move around on the graphics system. interruption from variable motorcycle application machine. “A car driver is restricted by the weather conditions. In a car, the steering angle is an windows, bonnet and roofline; he The application is being devel - input from the driver and the steer can look around freely, but only oped for a confidential customer torque is fed back to the driver as upwards and downwards through by system integrator Ansible Mo - a system output. a range of 20 to 30 degrees,” he tion and, in addition to the simula - On a motorcycle the opposite said. “The motorcycle rider can tor software, RFpro is supplying a happens; the rider applies a steer - look anywhere, even down at the number of digital test track mod - ing torque to the handlebars and road surface and, once banked els to enable direct comparison the vehicle model calculates the into a turn, because the rider is with existing physical data. appropriate steering angle for the still upright on the motion plat - RFpro has developed DIL simu - front wheel. form, the horizon must be banked lators for various vehicle dynam - Specialist software company over to provide the correct visual ics applications, offering the video RFpro is supplying simulator soft - cues.” and audio pipelines, an architec - ware to power the world’s first Despite the differences in the ture for soft-real-time model exe - vehicle dynamics grade driver-in- behaviour of a motorcycle to a car cution and an optically correct the-loop (DIL) simulator for a or lorry, the benefits of DIL simu - off-platform vision system opti - motorcycle application. The tech - lation are just the same; confirm - mised for motion profiles suited to nology allows manufacturers to ing the vehicle’s behaviour in a ride and handling development. evaluate alternative chassis con - virtual environment. This can in - This specialised area of DIL simu - figurations using riders with dif - clude: the safe and repeatable ex - lation is all about closing the loop ferent styles and ability levels in a ploration of limit handling; the through the driver and the vehicle controlled, safe environment, with controlled evaluation of alterna - model as quickly as possible repeatability. tive chassis configurations using while delivering a high quality The company’s simulator soft - riders with different styles and and immersive environment. ware has previously been used on everything from Formula One cars to commercial vehicles but the motorcycle application raised new challenges, according to the company’s technical director, Chris Hoyle. “Simulating the dynamics of a motorcycle accurately is incredi - bly challenging due to the mobil - ity of the rider and the unique steering characteristics of the ve - hicle,” he said. “By working alongside a motorcycle manufac - turer to create our technology we have been able to develop and Left and right eye VR output Providing driver-in-the-loop simulation for motorcycles validate solutions to these hurdles

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How modern vehicle electronics are improving agricultural production methods

arming, as with every other CROP sector, is striving for im - provements in efficiencies and one means of achieving circuits Fgreater yields is if the farmers have a better knowledge and un - derstanding of their land. Once they have this information they are more likely to be able to en - sure that every square metre is used to its best advantage. Formed by Tony Hague and Nick Tillett after the closure of the UK government funded Silsoe Research Institute, Tillett & Hague has been developing machine vision guidance systems since the mid-1990s. The com - pany develops and manufactures complete control systems for machinery manufacturers who wish to provide their agricultural customers with the best in precision guidance. As herbicide use becomes in - creasingly restricted there has been much interest in using inter- row guidance technology to con - trol weeds by guiding cultivators between crop rows. The same well proven technology is also being applied to the guidance of band spraying equipment. This allows operators to apply different prod - ucts and different doses between and on top of crop rows thus in - creasing the flexibility with which existing herbicides or other crop protection products can be used. “Many modern mechanical ap - proaches are concerned with field crop protection, usually weed con - trol,” said Hague. “Of these the most popular is inter-row guid - ance of the cultivators between

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crop rows, especially where a The first stage for any new sys - plete package, which Tillett & tributes to greater machine effi - farmer wishes to reduce herbicide tem is the provision of a prototype Hague found convenient. The ciency and energy saving,” said input.” bare board, and these were manu - finished boards were then Hague. “Also important is the fact Most systems locate rows of factured using Newbury Electron - supplied as an integral part of the that it enables us to eliminate crop and then control the lateral ics’ PCB Train service. Once completed electronics, along with many interconnections making for positioning of a tractor mounted Tillett & Hague was confident the licensed software to Tillett & quicker assembly and improved hoe to cultivate between the two that it had the design right it or - Hague’s farm machinery reliability.” rows of crops. More complex dered a production batch – typi - customers, principally Garford This type of technology has sev - systems include control of rotary cally 50 at a time – to exactly the Farm Machinery. eral benefits for the farmer; it re - cultivators that are synchronised same specification. These were duces operator stress, provides Bumps with the passing crop plants to then manufactured by Newbury higher accuracy and facilitates achieve cultivation between plants Electronics at its Newbury manu - “One of our newest and most multi-bout operation for even in the row. facturing facility in the UK, which complex machines has rotary cul - higher work rates. To date more It soon became apparent to the uses the latest production and tivators which utilise electrical than 500 inter-row vision guided Tillett & Hague team that while quality control equipment to drives,” said Hague. “This ma - systems have been sold using the they could handle the electronic ensure the quality of the chine has about 25 PCBs made by technology. Other more sophisti - design in-house they would need manufacture. Newbury Electronics, one per cated applications are also avail - to work with an organisation that The service includes provision rotor and several others for lateral able which involve locating and could provide the electronics of all components and their as - and height control, power regula - tracking individual crop or weed manufacturing expertise. sembly onto the PCB as a com - tion and so on. Engineering this plants and treating them mechani - Control screen in the cab of the tractor system was quite a challenge, cally, chemically or with a biolog - especially the electric rotor drives, ical control. In many cases these because the machine is used in an facilitate environmentally friendly PCBs and farming it is clear that area where there is a lot of bog methods of crop protection that innovation in both the electronics oak – submerged remains of would not be practical without and farming sectors are leading to ancient trees.” this technology. the formation of strong partner - These can give quite a shock So, although at first there seems ships and the implementation of load to the cultivators when you to be a tenuous link between innovations. find a bump. “Newbury’s solder joints have certainly stood up to the rough ter - rain test and the company has also been able to supply us with be - spoke shaped boards enabling us to fit the controls around the motor, in a cast metal housing,” said Hague. This also serves as a heatsink. Internal arrangement of The most recent development has console. Here the board is been the redesign of the user con - designed to allow the two-part sole, which gave the ability to in - case to fit together with no tegrate all the functions needed – extra chassis plates. Cutaways power supply and management, allow for different displays touch screen control and so on – with differing cable routing, onto the one PCB. and the hole allows for the tall “An adaption to its actual physi - connectors on the processor cal shape has allowed us to make Inside a typical implement control box, mounted on the machine; board so they sandwich a compact, lighter and cleaner Close up of plants and rotors this does lateral steering, powers the cameras and so on together in a slim case. looking unit, all of which con -

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HARD WORK Bob Wettermann explains the importance of PCB rework for the automotive market

BMW IDrive uses gesture recognition

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oday’s modern automobiles and many, many other features. the end more rework, repair or re - are jammed full of elec - The main dash display features a placement of devices in these sub - tronics as they play a roll 17.9cm touchscreen display audio systems will take place. in the safety, entertainment and interface with Apple CarPlay and In the automobile industry, some Tnavigation parts of the cars’ func - Android Auto connectivity plat - of the micro miniaturisation and tions. Microprocessors, sensors forms, giving smartphone features hence rework challenges do not and other electronics are inside and functions. accelerate at the same rate as they the car, underneath the bonnet, The door locking system has do in other markets. inside tyres as well as other automatically locking capability “This is because it is difficult to locations. which functions so that when the implement technology that will On average, the modern auto - driver leaves the vehicle, when remain viable for the ten-plus year mobile has 50 plus CPUs and the key distance from the vehicle lifespan of the average car,” said more than 100 million lines of exceeds two metres for two sec - Susie Inouye, research director code for the various control, enter - onds, and when no other key is and principal analyst at market tainment and safety systems. The detected inside the vehicle, it au - research firm Databeans. modern automobile is truly com - tomatically locks. All of these The environment, which can plicated. gadgets require electronic hard - range in temperature from -40 to The BMW SUV IDrive, for ex - ware and subsystems, all of which +250˚C, is one big reason that the ample, is chalked full of such can go awry. device geometries cannot be goodies, including gesture recog - The problem with these ever in - maintained. The demands put on nition. The Honda 2017 CR-V has creasing levels of sophistication is the device relative to shock with - road departure mitigation, adap - that car manufacturers are adding stand potential also require ex - tive cruise control, rear cross features at a faster rate than the tremely durable mechanical traffic monitor, a blind spot infor - miniaturisation and reliability test designs. mation system, auto high-beam plans are able to keep up with. In Electronics need to be high in reliability to be placed in a mod - ern automobile. Vehicles, com - pared with other end use markets, Dashboard of 2017 Honda CR-V have more challenging operating specifications. Challenging automotive indus - take longer to load and unload the ture for QS9000 and or AS-9100 “Cars have to operate in extreme try requirements put pressure on part than perform the actual in - approvals. The ever-increasing outdoor temperatures and are ex - the PCB automotive rework mar - spection. This requirement adds price pressure on the rework of pected to have a life of up to ten ket. Expectations of absolute part time and cost to the rework the assemblies based on the alter - years and over 100,000 miles of traceability, 100 per cent assur - process. Ideal, consistent solder - native of building new hundreds use,” said David Alexander, ance of correct part placement and ing conditions, especially if there of thousands or even millions of principal automotive technology perfect soldering operations are is hand soldering going on, cannot printed circuit board assemblies analyst at ABI Research. putting constraints on the auto be assured with most equipment. means the point at which it is Electronic components have to rework services market. There are a lot of commercial cheaper to throw the entire be tested to withstand vibration Since many of the rework proj - pressures surrounding the cost of module away rather than rework and meet very demanding quality ects are manual in nature, part rework as well as the quality and a component on the PCB is standards. In many cases, the elec - traceability is also a manual documentation expectations from pretty low. tronics are embedded in some process. This means remembering automotive suppliers. Essentially, to log the serialisation information the auto industry wants aerospace- type of epoxy or are conformally Bob and correctly transcribing the in - like quality and quality control coated to protect the boards oper - Wettermann is formation for correctness are key. systems at a low end IPC Class I ating in this kind of environment. principal at Part placement can be assured assembly prices. The removal and replacement of contract rework these coatings provides a chal - with AOI (automated optical in - The rework service providers Automated optical inspection post rework can help and repair lenge for those performing rework spection) equipment. If it is a sin - need to understand the PPAP assure the correct device was replaced company Best in the auto industry. gle rework location then it will process and have the infrastruc -

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rial instructions that guide Software provides test users through the meas - Vents double resistance to urements step by step. option for Ethernet The oscilloscope is auto - water in ultrasonic welding matically configured and Compliance test software the results are docu - for automated testing of mented in a test report. To help engineers mount ering precise and accurate IEEE 1000baseT1 inter - The software addition - automotive electrical and data. faces is available as the ally supports the stan - electronic modules closer They also provide tem - RTO-K87 option for the dard’s return loss and to the point of use, WL perature stability from RTO digital oscilloscope mode conversion meas - Gore has introduced its -40 to +150˚C. Many from Rohde & Schwarz. urements, which are per - High WEP series of vents under-bonnet applications Fast data transmission formed on a network for weldable installation. – such as actuators for within automotive Ether - analyser. They are said to nearly turbocharger flaps or ex - net networks is critical for The compliance tests double the water entry haust gas recuperation driver assistance systems for 1000baseT1 and pressure (WEP) resist - valves – require this level as well as autonomous 100baseT1 BroadR- ance without sacrificing of temperature resistance. driving applications. Reach as well as the trig - either airflow perform - Membranes are tested On the oscilloscope, ger and decoding options ance or temperature re - for compliance with ISO users can perform tests the optional RTO-B6 in - quired 125MHz interfer - for Lin, Can, Can-FD, sistance. 16750, ISO 20653 or and assess the reliability tegrated arbitrary wave - ing signal – no additional Flexray and CXPI are Designed for ultrasonic LV124, and the vents of data communications form generator, the instruments are required. said to provide a compre - welding, they are engi - comply with TS16949 over 1000baseT1 inter - RTO2000 can independ - The compliance test hensive, yet compact test neered for smaller, more quality standards as well faces. When used with ently generate the re - software includes picto - for ECU development. densely configured enclo - protection levels from of pressure differentials as the PPAP and VDA ap - sures in rugged automo - IP6K1 to IP6K9K (ISO and release of heat build- proval process. tive environments, 20653). up. At the same time, re - Configured as a cut-part Tool suite tuned to ISO 26262 particularly for exterior- They maintain mini - duction of condensation product on rolls, they are mounted modules. mum airflow of 15 is supported, which is es - available in five standard A variant of the LDRA requirements-through- ment, modelling and re - The automotive secu - They have a minimum l/h/cm² at 7kPa. This en - sential to keep sensors diameters from 6 to tool suite has been tuned verification suite to speed quirements management rity module helps ensure WEP of more than sures rapid equalisation and other modules deliv - 14mm. for automotive software the development and ver - tools such as MathWorks secure code through secu - 110kPa at a hold time of quality development, ver - ification process for ap - Simulink, IBM Rational rity standards compliance 300s. This makes them ification and ISO 26262 plications requiring Asil Rhapsody, IBM Rational with Misra, Cert C and effective at blocking Optical simulation of lighting compliance. This should A, B, C or D assurance. Doors and Polarion ALM. CWE, and enables vul - ingress of water, not just help embedded software The suite has been certi - The suite can improve nerability analysis during sprays and Software lets designers minance and generating Users can develop de - developers achieve ISO fied by TÜV SÜD and software quality by through data and control splashes, but even during perform optical simula - luminance images. signs with Catia-gener - 26262 compliance more SGS-TÜV Saar for devel - analysing code for clarity, coupling analysis. deep water wading tions and analyses of au - It lets designers who are ated geometry or geo- cost effectively by en - opment of automotive ap - maintainability and testa - It automates unit, inte - events. tomotive lighting within familiar with Catia per - metry created in Lucid - abling traceability, auto - plications under ISO bility. It also ensures safer gration and requirements- In addition, the chemi - the Catia v5 environment. form optical analyses of Shape. It supports simula - mated software quality 26262. and more secure code based testing, and speeds cally resistant membrane After a beta release in Oc - automotive headlights, tions of automotive analysis and testing It provides intrinsic use through coding standards testing through automatic of 100% ePTFE provides tober, Synopsys is ship - signal lights, tail lights lighting part-level models throughout the software of and traceability to ISO compliance – Misra, High test harness, test case gen - lasting hydrophobic and ping a general release and other lighting prod - and product-level assem - lifecycle. 26262 objectives and of - Integrity C++, Netrino eration, execution and re - oleophobic protection, version of the Lucid - ucts with a low learning blies. A suite of optical Developers of adas, in - fers transparency with and so on. sults capture. even when exposed to Shape CAA v5. curve. Catia v5 users can analysis tools is included. fotainment, powertrain, lifecycle traceability, as Other features include The suite enables and brake or other automotive Enhancements since the produce automotive light - The software provides a climate control and body well as simplifying test - coverage analysis and the reduces the cost of host fluids. beta version include fea - ing designs that meet per - hierarchical display of electronics applications, ing and test management. analysis and visual re - and target-based testing Depending on housing tures for constructing and formance, styling, visual project components to as well as autonomous The suite integrates with porting of data and con - and facilitates regression design, these vents can optimising light pipes, branding and regulatory facilitate navigation in vehicles, can leverage a other software develop - trol coupling. testing. help modules achieve analysing near-field illu - requirements complex models

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MLCC range extended to 10nF Inductors ing its efficiency. Angle sensor detects Angle detection preci - withstand sion is less than ±0.1˚ at Knowles brand Syfer has +25˚C. It responds to increased its range of stress up to 360˚ rotation magnetic field strengths 250V AC X1 and Y2 from 20 to 200mT and safety certified capacitors Automotive grade high- An angle sensor that de - has high resistance to to 10nF. current power inductors tects the rotation angle of noise. MLCCs have been used from Eaton can meet vehicular motors is avail - The developed sensor in automotive for years, electronic power and able from Panasonic. It includes a control circuit but the big change is the thermal handling require - has built-in AMR thin composed of the AMR el - voltage rating and size of ments of transportation films and Hall elements. ement capable of pre - components being used. manufacturers. The alloy The AMR thin films re - cisely detecting angles of This is being driven by powder core material of spond to a wide range of up to 180˚ plus Hall ele - modern on-board charg - the HCM1A inductors is strong magnetic fields ments capable of deter - ing for PHEVs and EVs available for a class X1 Reach, RoHS and ELV designed to withstand and the Hall elements can mining polarity, and it is using mains AC. and Y2 250V AC surface compliant. stresses found in vehicle detect angles up to 360˚. therefore able to detect Available in a 2220 case mount MLCC. Now in pre-production, engine compartments and The sensor meets the re - irregular magnetic fields. angle of the motor. Con - rotation angles of up to size, the X7R dielectric They comply with UL the 10nF B16 parts have deliver reliability for DC- quirements of ISO 26262. This characteristic allows trolling the motor pre - 360˚. capacitors provide the op - (ongoing) and TÜV spec - already been by approved DC converters, voltage It reads the rotational side shaft detection, cisely causes the vehicle A self-diagnostic func - tion of greater total ca - ifications to offer options by major automotive regulators, battery pow - angle of the rotor in the which increases the op - to travel with precision tion identifies any state in pacitance on the board, or of using a surface mount manufacturers and are ered systems, multi-phase motor to enable accurate tions for sensor attach - and puts the driving which the AMR element piece part count reduc - ceramic multilayer capac - under review by several regulators and point of detection of the motor’s ment. motor included in an inte - is likely to fail and imme - tion. For example, they itor to replace leaded film others. load modules. movement, allowing effi - In an adas, for example, grated starter generator diately warns the elec - can take the place of two types. Offering the bene - Applications also in - Materials used in the cient control of rotational the rotation of the power hybrid system under close tronic control unit of 4.7nF X1 and Y2 capaci - fits of pick-and-place as - clude AC-DC power sup - construction are designed speed and driving amount steering or operation of control. signs of failure. tors connected in parallel sembly, reduced board plies and plug-in charging to withstand the effects of to achieve more efficient the gearshift exerts con - This prevents the motor The product is compati - to reduce component space and lower profile, where circuits are con - thermal aging and protect control. trol over the behaviour of from running erratically, ble with systems that count, size and weight. they are also available in nected to the mains sup - against corrosion. They The sensor is capable of the vehicle through thus achieving lower fuel have a hazard category of The range is claimed to a FlexiCap version to re - ply and lightning strike or are AEC-Q200 grade one precise detection even in changes in the rotational consumption by improv - Asil-D. offer the highest capaci - duce the risk of mechani - other voltage transients compliant, which speci - tance and widest range cal cracking. They are represent a threat. fies -40 to +125˚C ambi - ent temperatures for safe operation. Inductor meets AEC-Q200 IP targets SoCs for adas The low core loss per - formance is designed for An AEC-Q200-qualified It can be used in under- 4.7µH. It provides rated Arm has introduced a infotainment and auto - functional safety support. input and output filtering high current inductor in the-bonnet applications current to 19A and han - platform of dedicated au - mated driving. The platform complies in engine compartments the 1616 case size com - including engine control dles high transient current tomotive Artisan physical The automotive plat - with rigid automotive with more sophisticated bines an operating tem - units for noise suppres - spikes without saturation. IP for TSMC 16FFC in a form has been optimised requirements, with dedi - digital control and DC perature to +155˚C with a sion, filtering and DC-DC Packaged in a lead (Pb)- FinFet process. Com - for implementation with cated automotive memo - motors. These motors profile of 2mm. conversion, LED lighting, free shielded, composite bined with the latest func - Cortex cores, including ries optimised for higher generate noise in engine The Vishay Dale IHLP- radar, lidar, optical and construction that reduces tional safety standards, R52, M33, M23, M7 and electro-migration require - compartments that could 1616BZ-5A is for energy other sensors, along with buzz to low levels, the in - including ISO 26262 and R5, which can offer sup - ments and extended fea - adversely affect the per - storage in DC-DC con - entertainment and naviga - ductor offers resistance to the TSMC 9000A quality port for Asil-D functional tures for testability. formance of adjacent verters up to 2MHz. It tion systems. thermal shock, moisture requirements, the plat - safety, as well as the ma - Development and qual - electronic systems. Filters provides attenuation of The device has a typical and mechanical shock. It form could accelerate the jority of Cortex-A and ification of the IP meet with HCM1A conductors noise in high current fil - DCR from 4.0 to is RoHS-compliant, halo - building of SoCs for auto - Cortex-M cores that pro - ISO 26262 and AEC- are designed to reduce tering applications up to 102.0mΩ and inductance gen-free and Vishay motive, including adas, vide standard Asil-B Q100 grade one. this noise. the SRF of the inductor. values from 0.10 to Green.

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