NEWS Audi, BMW and Daimler purchase Here from Nokia
Audi, BMW and Daimler “Our environment is limits or critical driving duces precise static maps, have agreed with Nokia constantly changing,” situations are already they can be verified more The monthly magazine for automotive electronics engineers that they will acquire its said Rupert Stadler, chair - recognised today. exactly and continually mapping and location man of the Audi board. “Here will play a key updated with a constant Issue 21 services business, called “That’s why the informa - role in the digital revolu - flow of data from vehi - Europe drivers warm to September 2015 Here. The acquisition is tion in digital maps has to tion of mobility, combin - cles’ surroundings. intended to secure the be continually updated so ing high definition maps Here provides mapping semi-autonomous tech IN THIS long-term availability of that maximum utility can and data from vehicles to and location intelligence ISSUE Here’s products and serv - be offered.” make travel safer and eas - for nearly 200 countries Drivers across Europe are “We are seeing increas - lowed by the Netherlands ices as an open, inde - He said the high-preci - ier for everyone,” said in more than 50 lan - showing an increasing ing demand for features (62 per cent), and Spain Page 2: Audi, BMW pendent and value sion cameras and sensors Harald Krüger, BMW guages and is one of the appetite for the semi- that relieve the stresses of (61 per cent). and Daimler buy creating platform for installed in modern cars chairman. “This knowl - main providers of map - autonomous technologies driving, and make it more Active city stop auto - Nokia’s Here cloud-based maps and were the digital eyes for edge will be to the benefit ping and location serv - that are building blocks enjoyable,” said Roelant matically applies braking other mobility services updating mobility data of all car makers and their ices. The management of towards the cars of the fu - de Waard, vice president if a driver does not react Page 3: Intelligent accessible to all cus - and maps; in this way, in - customers.” Here will continue to be ture, according to a Ford of Ford of Europe. “For to slowing traffic. In the mobility hackathon tomers from the automo - formation such as speed While Here already pro - independent. Motor study on buying example, people have past year 13 per cent of tive industry and other trends in Europe. very quickly become ac - cars produced were Pag 4: Kia pushes sectors. Reverse engineering for historic race cars The three partners will The study of new car customed to systems that equipped with the tech - wireless charging Motorsport and engineering consul - buying habits in 22 coun - help them to find a suit - nology, up from seven per each hold an equal stake in Here; none of them tancy KW Special Projects (KWSP) tries across Europe shows able parking space and re - cent the previous year. Page 8: Steering has launched a reverse engineering significant increases in verse into it.” seeks to acquire a major - The technology was most wheel in Frankfurt service for the historic motorsport the number of cars with Active park assist was ity interest. Subject to the popular in Sweden (59 market. The service, which enables technologies that help fitted to 34 per cent of approval of the relevant per cent), then Norway Page 9: Vents the complete digital scanning of any drivers to park, avoid col - Ford cars in Europe, up antitrust authorities, the (58 per cent) and Switzer - protect electronics historic race car, complements the lisions and maintain set from 28 per cent the pre - transaction is expected to land (41 per cent). company’s existing offerings to the speeds and distances from vious year. In Switzerland close in the first quarter New Ford cars in Eu - Page 13: Trends in contemporary sports car and single- vehicles ahead. this was 72 per cent, fol - of 2016. rope equipped with some driver assistance seater marketplaces. kind of cruise control The car makers see this as part of the path to - It covers scanning, reverse engi - technology rose from 48 Page 21: Listening neering, remanufacturing, digital to 52 per cent. Turkey led choices in vehicles wards fully autonomous driving. Extremely pre - archiving, inspection and composites with 86 per cent, ahead of expertise. Finland at 84 per cent. cise digital maps will be Page 24: Cockpit “We’ve been looking at the viabil - In the past year, 51 per used with real-time vehi - electronics market ity of an historic motorsport pro - cent of cars sold in Swe - cle data to increase road gramme for a while,” said Kieron den had lane keeping as - safety and to facilitate in - Page 26: Fuel station Salter (pictured), managing director sist, ahead of Norway (28 novative products and of the future of KWSP. “Indeed, we’ve recently per cent) and Switzerland services. On the basis of taken on a number of projects working with historic vehicles, particularly (21 per cent). Throughout the shared raw data, all Page 27: Product in terms of reverse engineering and 3D printing capabilities and we felt it Europe, the number of automobile manufactur - news was time to now augment that with our international motorsport expert - vehicles with lane keep - ers can offer their cus - Switzerland tops the park assist list ise and knowledge.” ing aids rose 20 per cent. Page 32: Contact tomers differentiated and details brand-specific services. vehicle-electronics.biz Vehicle Electronics September 2015, Page 2 NEWS NEWS Can RFID Kia pushes wireless charging UK to run intelligent track fast Wireless charging sys - dent. “Innovative tech - mobility hackathon vehicles? tems, capable of transfer - nologies such as this align ring high power without well with one of our core precise alignment be - goals, which is to create a The UK’s Transport Sys - cess to data, hardware and technologists of the Harting has joined forces tween the charger and the vehicle experience that is tems Catapult (TSC) will and software. Teams will future. IMCreate is the with the University of Os - vehicle, are under devel - intuitive and easy for the run what it claims is the develop their ideas while embodiment of this and nabrück in Germany, in opment for electric vehi - consumer.” world’s first intelligent travelling around on we aim to develop the an experiment to verify cles, with the Kia Soul Having already gone mobility hackathon in many forms of transport, ideas which will revolu - the ability of the com - EV being the tester car through several stages of November, as part of its ending with the train from tionise how we move pany’s RFID systems to for this research. development, this final mission to accelerate in - Euston to Milton Keynes. people and goods around detect objects moving at Wireless charging tech - phase will use five Soul novation in transport. The event will conclude the country, using data high speeds. nology has the potential Testing wireless charging with Kia Soul EVs EVs to test how wireless The event will use the at the Catapult’s Imova - and information the TSC The object of the exer - to enhance the conven - technology works in real- hackathon along with the tion Centre facility, home has gathered from all cise is to determine how ience of EVs – and so in - The system is being de - awarded a funding grant world performance, in - TSC’s transport data of the Lutz pathfinder dri - modes of transport as in - fast a vehicle can go and crease the appeal and veloped by the Hyundai- from the US Department cluding durability, safety index to address critical verless car project. spiration.” still be detected reliably acceptance among con - Kia America Technical of Energy (DoE). and performance. problems within the UKs “The fusion of creativ - A panel made up of using RFID. sumers – while possibly Center (Hatci) and Mojo “Hatci is honoured to be Kia and Mojo Mobility transport network. ity and technical prowess leaders from industry and As a warm-up, an elec - enabling smaller battery Motabilit – a wireless selected as a partner with have not announced when The event, over the is critical to solving the academia will choose the tric racing car drove past pack sizes and reduced power technology com - the DoE,” said Sung the system will be avail - weekend of 14th and 15th transport challenges of first, second and third the RFID antennas at vehicle weight. pany – after being Hwan Cho, Hatci presi - able for purchase. November 2015, will today and tomorrow,” best systems developed at 80km/h. All systems bring together more than said IMCreate organiser the event. functioned and the car 100 data scientists, soft - Charles Carter from “We are confident that was detected. The second ware engineers, business TSC’s information ex - fresh thinking developed race, involving an electric thinkers, marketers, inno - ploitation team. “It is time at IMCreate will lead to racing car at 120km/h, vators, and public and to explore a new ap - new transport projects or also resulted in the vehi - private transport sector proach, one that gives start-up companies that cle being detected. end-users and suppliers. equal weighting to both will become transport in - However, the electric Called IMCreate, it will artistry and methodology, dustry leaders in the fu - cars only have a maxi - start in London with ac - to shape the engineers ture,” said Carter. mum speed of 120km/h since the Formula Student Wind River hits CMMI level three project only uses a nar - row track or involves a Intel subsidiary Wind three. This appraisal “Our CMMI level three 75m sprint. Conse - River has been appraised builds on Wind River’s appraisal further rein - quently, in the third round at level three of the past level three achieve - forces Wind River’s com - a racing car with a com - CMMI Institute’s Capa - ments, the first of which mitment to delivering bustion engine was used, bility Maturity Model In - was attained in 2006. world class services and reaching a top speed of tegration (CMMI) for its “Increasing software support, and demon - 160km/h. worldwide automotive complexity and shorter strates that our teams are Even this failed to push and professional services. development timelines implementing proven the RFID technology to The company com - are creating new compet - processes and industry its limits, and so a road - pleted a CMMI Scampi A itive pressures for compa - expertise to help cus - ster was driven in one last appraisal and achieved a nies,” said Amit Ronen, tomers meet evolving run. The result was star - level three in 18 process senior vice president of market demands and mit - tling: even at 200km/h, areas, resulting in a professional services at igate themselves against the vehicle was quickly CMMI Maturity level Wind River. development risks.” and reliably detected.
Page 3, September 2015 Vehicle Electronics Vehicle Electronics September 2015, Page 4 NEWS Bosch and Continental top entertainment figures
Bosch and Continental 2014. Alpine was third on lyst at Semicast Research. changing environment.” led the worldwide OE au - 10.5% followed by Har - The key issue for enter - Smartphones and tomotive entertainment man Becker at 9.5%. tainment systems ven - tablets are becoming ever systems vendor share The next six were dors’ success over the more central to the auto - ranking in 2014, with Clarion (8.5%), Pana - next five years will be re - motive environment, with both suppliers consider - sonic (6.5%), Fujitsu-Ten sponding to the introduc - stored music replacing ably ahead of Alpine and (5.5%), Hyundai Autonet tion of Apple Carplay and conventional CD audio Harman Becker, accord - (4.5%), Pioneer (3.5%) Android Auto. systems; streaming music ing to Semicast Research. and Aisin AW (2.5%). “Semicast judges it services and navigation Collectively these four “Semicast sees the front highly unlikely that Apple over 4G replacing radio suppliers are estimated to seat automotive entertain - and Google will make and embedded naviga - have accounted for about ment market moving to - these systems them - tion; and stored video re - half of OE automotive en - wards systems which are selves,” said Barnden. placing DVD rear seat tertainment systems ship - effectively portals that “Thus OE automotive en - entertainment. ments in 2014. maximise the accessibil - tertainment systems sup - This suggests that sup - Continental and Bosch ity of apps, features and pliers that do not support pliers of OE automotive Car Multimedia both had functions of smartphones Apple Carplay and An - entertainment systems a 14.5% share of the 73 and tablets,” said Colin droid Auto will fall be - have a significant oppor - million units sold in Barnden, principal ana - hind in this rapidly tunity for growth on the horizon: front seat, video- based, infotainment sys - VE editor puts spotlight tems with touchscreen control that replicate the on vehicle electronics smartphone or tablet dis - play onto the centre stack The increasingly complex now self-driving technol - systems-on-chip, and a in the car. electronics systems that ogy are covered in a comprehensive look at Semicast defines vehi - range from powertrain report by Vehicle Elec - who is doing what among cle entertainment systems controls to infotainment, tronics editor Steve the major players. to include audio-only navigation systems and Rogerson. “Electronics have be - systems, front seat info - “Embedded Electronics come the value centre of tainment, rear seat enter - – the evolving future the future for suppliers,” tainment and embedded heart of the automobile”, said Rogerson. “Demand navigation systems, but published by Autelli - from OEMs has become excludes under-the- gence, provides a detailed enormous, whether for bonnet systems such as analysis of a complex monitoring batteries in body, chassis, powertrain, world – car systems, mi - EVs or the proliferation safety and security. crocontrollers, architec - of sensors and monitors Original quipment fac - tures, sensors, standards, for autonomous driving tory-fitted systems only and networks and re - applications.” are included in this analy - search projects, as well as The report is available sis; dealer-fit and after - trends towards integra - to buy as a PDF from market systems are tion, quality processes, www.autelligence.com. excluded.
Page 5, September 2015 Vehicle Electronics NEWS NEWS IAR tools help students build Gesture and touch sensing steering hydrogen-powered race car wheel to make Frankfurt debut Neonode and Autoliv Controls will always lar computer mouse. passed the expectations of Tools from IAR Systems will jointly show the in - appear at the driver’s fin - Visitors to the show will all involved,“ said have helped Dutch stu - novative ZForce Drive gertips, regardless of have the opportunity to Thomas Eriksson, CEO at dents develop a hydro - Multisensing steering where the hands are posi - test drive the steering Neonode. “At the Frank - gen-powered racing car. wheel at this month’s tioned on the steering wheel. furt Motor Show IAA, we IAR Embedded Work - Frankfurt Motor Show wheel. “The response from the place our ZForce Drive bench was used by stu - IAA. The HMI limits the automotive OEMs that on the world stage and we dents at Delft University The steering wheel is number of gestures, mak - have seen and tested the believe that our unique of Technology in the already being tested by ing the systems as easy to ZForce Drive steering technology will be a Netherlands. some large automotive learn to operate as a regu - wheel has greatly sur - standout success.” Forze, a student founda - OEMs. The gesture and Engineers of tomorrow with ideas today tion at the university, is touch enabled wheel fo - developing hydrogen- cuses on safety and us - powered racing cars. ability. Using the same Thanks to its code optimi - taps and sweep gestures sations and easy-to-use Forze hydrogen-powered racing car that Neonode invented for interface, IAR Embedded mobile devices, a driver Workbench helped the Earlier this year, their about its place in the it to do.” can control systems in the team accelerate the devel - latest car Forze VI broke automotive industry,” The tools help compa - car in an intuitive way, opment cycle and to get the lap record for fuel cell said Mart van Rijsingen, nies and organisations with the hands safely po - the cars into production vehicles on the Nord - chief of electronics and from all parts of the world sitioned on the steering faster. schleife of the Nürbur - bodywork for Forze. bring products to the mar - wheel and the eyes fo - Forze is a group of over gring in Germany. Never “IAR Embedded Work - ket easier, cheaper and cused on the road. 50 students at the univer - before has a racing car bench has an intuitive and faster. sity. The team focuses on with a hydrogen fuel cell very user-friendly IDE The complete compiler Over inventory the development and pro - completed the track so and it has helped us a lot and debugger toolchain of The automotive semicon - motion of sustainable fast. in structuring our soft - IAR Embedded Work - ductor market continues technology and, since “Thanks to our spon - ware and filtering errors bench provides the em - to suffer from over inven - 2008, has built six hydro - sors, we are able to let the out. The included debug - bedded industry with tory after a strong 2014 gen fuel cell vehicles. The world know about the ger performs code checks device support, including and is now expected to re - entire project is carried great potential of this hy - in a very powerful way more than 10,000 devices main relatively flat if not out by team members drogen technology and to make sure the code from all major semicon - slightly down in 2015 for who work voluntarily. make a clear statement is doing what we expect ductor vendors. an expected total of Meet some of the future automotive electronics engineers. These are win - $26.3bn, according to ning children in Toyota’s annual Dream Car Art Contest in Tokyo. Image scanner checks prison vehicles market watcher Data - A record total of 875,000 artworks were received from 81 countries and beans. regions. National contests were held with selected entries progressing to Pentonville Prison in sharp images of the un - (ANPR), it maintains a blacklisted vehicle at - This lug in the market is the World Contest where they were judged by Toyota president Akio London is using Chem - derside of vehicles to im - database of vehicles and tempting to enter the site. expected to recover by Toyoda and a panel of outside experts. The winners were invited to ring Technology’s Vehi - prove the time taken to their images, and alerts an It uses high-resolution 2016 as the market is pre - Japan for the award ceremony in August. clescan surveillance review scans and reduce operator to any changes line-scan technology to dicted to reach a high of This year, gold awards were given to children from Sri Lanka, Romania technology to check for waiting times for vehicles on a vehicle’s underside deliver full colour images over $28bn and continue and Paraguay across three age categories. The winner of the engineering objects concealed under entering the men’s prison. during subsequent visits. of the underside of a ve - to grow at a compound inspiration award was nine-year-old Minhal Adnan Sami from the UAE vehicles. Using automatic num - The system will also hicle with millimetre- annual growth rate of whose idea was a car that could run on fruit and vegetable compost. The system provides ber-plate recognition identify any previously scale detail. eight per cent.
Page 7, September 2015 Vehicle Electronics Vehicle Electronics September 2015, Page 8 THERMAL MANAGEMENT THERMAL MANAGEMENT Engine off…venting off?
Thilo Haiss explains how vents can protect car electronics from serious temperature fluctuations
Even when the car is turned off, the engine compartment can continue to heat up
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n electric cars, hybrid cars or 70mbar over an extended period line), again creating a pressure ing, potentially shortening the life cars with conventional com - of time can already be dangerous, spike of about 100mbar (red line) of automotive electronics by al - bustion engines, the electron - as it allows the seal to become in the non-vented housing. But in lowing them to corrode and be - ics are exposed to constant porous. It wasn’t until the engine the vented housing, the air pres - come damaged. Ipressure fluctuations. Yet driving cooled off several hours later that sure once again remained the Nowadays, the average mid-size is not the only activity that poses the pressure gradually fell to its same as the ambient pressure car features more than 100 sen - major challenges for electronics original value of 0mbar. (green line). sors, 30 or more control units and housings. Shutting off the engine In winter, if the car is exposed to The result is that the vent re - 20 or more engines and actuators in particular causes huge pressure outside temperatures of just above duces strain on seals and protects – sensitive electronic components spikes, putting considerable stress freezing for an entire night, nega - the electronics. that have to function throughout on the seals that are supposed to tive pressure forms in the non- the car’s entire service life. Conclusion protect sensitive electronics from vented housing, putting critical Automotive vents, as shown in dirt and liquids. strain on the seals. As a result, Driving to and from work every Fig. 2, make it possible for pres - When the vehicle is in opera - water and dirt particles can pene - day – which means turning the en - sure to be continuously equalised, tion, the wind cools the electron - trate the housing. gine on and, more specifically, off so dangerous spikes don’t even ics that heat up in the engine again twice a day – leads to multi - happen in the first place. The seals Fig. 2: Automotive vents Vented housings compartment. However, if the car ple harmful temperature and pres - can function reliably throughout is sitting in traffic or at a traffic By contrast, the venting integrated sure spikes in non-vented their entire lifetime and protect light, then this natural coolant dis - time, eventually allowing ingress at 4pm with the drive home and into the comparison housing con - housings. That doesn’t even take the car’s sensitive electronics. appears. As a result, the tempera - of dirt particles and liquids into concluding with the drive back to tinually equalises pressure differ - into account other types of driv - Thilo Haiss ture under the bonnet quickly the housing’s interior. Ultimately, work the next morning (see Fig. entials, making it impossible for ing, such as vacations, weekend is product shoots up. This increase is even this can damage the sensitive elec - 1). spikes to form. The pressure in the getaways and day trips. All in all, line more serious when the car re - tronics. vented housing remains the same the electronics housings in a typi - Non-vented housings manager for mains stationary for several hours. Vent specialists tested the tem - as the ambient pressure and there - cal commuter vehicle are exposed automotive The heat from the engine rapidly perature and pressure changes in While the driver was running af - fore doesn’t harm the seals (green to an average of 500 critical pres - lighting at drives up the temperature, which two identical electronics housings ternoon errands, the wind caused line). sure spikes each year. Their seals WL Gore & in turn produces pressure spikes in installed under the bonnet. One by the car’s motion was able to On the following morning, the cannot withstand such high levels Associates the electronics housings. Because electronics housing remained in cool off the engine sufficiently. problems of the previous day’s of stress over an extended period these spikes equalise only very its original condition (in other Yet around 5:30pm, when the car test repeated themselves. After the of time. In the medium to long slowly without vents, enormous words, non-vented), while an au - was sitting in rush hour traffic, the car was driven to work, the tem - term, they give in to the constant strain is put on the seals. This tomotive vent was integrated into temperature under the bonnet rose perature in the engine compart - strain and permit ingress of dirt happens at least twice a day in the other. The test observed both from roughly +15˚C to about ment rose to over +40˚C (yellow particles and liquids into the hous - commuter cars; the recurring electronics housings during a +45˚C (yellow line). It didn’t drop stress can weaken the seals over typical commuter day – starting until traffic started moving and the generated breeze began cool - Extreme situation: The carwash ing the electronics again – and Temperature and pressure fluctuations arise from all kinds even then it fell only slightly. As of situations, not just when the driver shuts off the engine. soon as the car was back at home, These include driving a route with major altitude differ - with the engine turned off and no ences, sudden weather changes or when the car is sitting in wind to dissipate the heat, the traffic. temperature climbed up to a new The graph shows the extreme conditions vehicle electronics high of nearly +60˚C. There it re - are exposed to when the vehicle goes through the carwash. mained until hours later, when the Without venting, the cool sprayed water creates 90mbar of cool night air brought it back negative pressure in the electronics housings. down. This puts enormous strain on the seals, meaning that water, In the non-vented housing, this oil or cleaning agents can penetrate them and damage the temperature increase created a Fig. 1: Commuter test: dangerous pressure spikes in non-vented sensitive electronics. positive pressure of 150mbar (red housings are par for the course line). Positive pressure of just
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e are on the threshold of a radical change in vehicle technology. No, it’s not automation, although that Wwill come very soon. Instead, Coming revolution change is being driven by the un - derlying technology for automa - The three major trends of electrification, tion that is already here and advancing rapidly; that is, crash connectivity and autonomy all have avoidance technology delivered software in common, according to by advanced driver assistance sys - tems (adas). Thomas Gage and Jonathan Morris Adas makes safety and market - ing sense. Whether it is Daimler, Toyota, Ford, Nissan, GM, an - other vehicle OEM or even Google, none is going to put vehi - cles on the road that can steer, brake or accelerate autonomously without having confidence that the technology will work. Adas promises first to reduce accidents and assist drivers as a co-pilot be - fore eventually taking over for them on some of and eventually all their journey as an autopilot. As for how quickly the impacts of this technology will be felt, the adoption curves for any new tech - nology look very similar to one another. For example, the first commercial mobile-phone net - work went live in the USA in 1983 in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. At the time, phones cost about $3000 and sub - scribers were scarce. Even several years later, coverage was unavail - able in most of the country out - side of dense urban areas. Today, there are more mobile-phone sub - scriptions than there are people in the USA, and more than 300,000 mobile-phone towers connect the entire country. Low-end smart - phones cost about $150. Vehicle technology is moving forward at a similar pace. And,
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doubled from 20 to 40 per cent. Today’s luxury vehicles com - monly contain 100 microproces - sors and run 100 million lines of software code, controlling every - thing from engine timing to info - tainment systems. We are now at an inflection point where soft - ware, sensors and processors are Fig. 1: Basic adas architecture starts with sensors that provide delivering entirely new areas of data on driving conditions to an ECU vehicle functionality, and not sim - ply transitioning conventional functions from mechanical to because transportation is so three technology-driven trends electronic control. Both the adas fundamental to how we live, the that are simultaneously arriving to of today and the autonomous driv - disruptive effects are likely to be disrupt the automotive status quo: ing systems of tomorrow will rely astoundingly large. electrification, connectivity and completely on software to make autonomy. Each trend is moving sense of a slew of data from sen - Three vehicles The Tesla S has come to represent at a different pace, but all three sors, cameras, the internet, infra - the face of vehicle electrification The development of automation have one thing in common: it’s all structure and other vehicles. and adas is not the first trend to about the software. The increasing complexity of upend the auto industry status vehicles has already shifted the Software quo. International competition and automotive value chain. The liberalised trade forever altered Since 2004, the costs of electron - trends of electrification, connec - celerate this shift in value towards barriers to entry. After decades of example, Continental’s sensors the automotive OEM landscape, ics in an average vehicle have tivity and automation will only ac - those companies that create elec - the same players dominating the and processors can transmit and eroding the US sales market share tronics and software, and away industry, Google, Apple, Tesla and recalculate algorithms needed to of the big three car makers from from OEMs that fail to innovate. Uber are all poised to remake the understand the driving environ - 72 to 45 per cent in the past 20 This shift will have two effects. automotive landscape through ment every 10 to 60ms, while the years. And while vehicle technol - First, software will become a criti - software, a thought that would human brain can pass a message ogy has advanced enormously, the cal market differentiator, pressur - have seemed highly unlikely even from a sensory neuron to a motor basics of driving have not ing OEMs to shorten product five years ago. neuron in only a few milliseconds. changed much in the past 40 cycles and provide support and In a typical adas-equipped vehi - But the real gap between adas years. updates for legacy systems. To cle (Fig. 1), applications such as today and the fully autonomous Now, every day in California’s meet consumer demands for cur - forward collision avoidance systems of tomorrow is seen in South Bay, you can commonly see rent technology, OEMs are now (FCA) are enabled by a set of sen - software. Regardless of how fast three vehicles representing three forced to modify significantly or sors that provide data on the exter - inputs can be processed, the soft - world-changing trends in the auto - introduce new models after only nal driving environment to an ware algorithms that will allow motive industry – a sleek Tesla S three or four years, while previous electronic control unit (ECU). vehicles to drive themselves more rolling quietly past, a late-model product cycles averaged five to This unit then uses software to de - efficiently and safely than human sedan with an Uber U in the back eight years. This leaves OEMs termine whether a threat is present drivers in complex driving envi - window picking up a passenger with many challenges including and operates brake actuators or, ronments remain the biggest chal - and a heavily modified Lexus rapid innovation, complex QA potentially, other countermeasures lenge. Complexity is defined by SUV with a spinning lidar on the testing, higher development costs, to mitigate the threat. both the number of threats, char - roof, driving itself down the street less time to amortise R&D and the The sensors available today for acterised by the types of threats while a Google employee (or an need for new sales and vehicle- driver assistance applications are that a driver can encounter on dif - employee from an auto OEM in ownership models. the hardware foundation for au - ferent road types – for example, one of their vehicles in other parts Secondly, the shift to software tonomous vehicles. But tomor - pedestrians, vehicles travelling at Fig. 2: Adas software algorithms must account for road types, of the world) collects data. allows new entrants to innovate in row’s sensors will necessarily be a right angle to the vehicle, bicy - speed and threat complexity These daily sights represent an industry with notoriously high smaller, faster and cheaper. For clists – and the speed at which the
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vehicle is driving (Fig. 2). As they race to improve their Platforms for adas and beyond software, vehicle OEMs and their suppliers are introducing their The basic goal of adas is to make drivers more cles in which the driver is essentially the co- technology to the market in three aware of their environment so they can drive pilot. What’s more, these technologies will be distinct ways. OEMs such as safely while enjoying the experience. Around leveraged heavily to facilitate vehicle-to-vehicle BMW, Daimler and Nissan have ten years ago, luxury OEMs began to offer the and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications already begun to sell moderate- first adas products in the form of backup radar designed to enable governments to build smart functionality adas designed to op - and lidar sensor-based systems that would sim - infrastructure – streets, traffic signals and so on erate in simple driving ply beep if they detected an object behind the – to streamline traffic flow in real time, making environments such as interstates. vehicle. Over time, these systems advanced to transportation safer, more efficient and eco - Without needing to account for multi-sensor versions that fused radar with nomical, and better for the environment. traffic signals, turns or multidirec - cameras and even lidar, to give drivers not only At the heart of many of these systems are pro - tional traffic, these vehicles auto - a view of what’s behind them but also detect if grammable devices such as Xilinx’s Zynq SoC, matically steer, brake and something is coming up from the side. and these are quickly replacing less versatile accelerate in lower-speed situa - In subsequent years, the adas sensor arrays ASSPs. The combination of such Arm-based tions using systems such as traffic morphed from doing one task at the back of a processors and FPGA logic on the same device jam assist, a trajectory represented vehicle into networked sensor arrays that see has let OEMs build highly sophisticated, all- by the blue line in Fig. 3. Eventu - Fig. 3: Simpler systems such as traffic jam assist will roll out first, 360˚ and inside an automobile, with each sen - programmable adas platforms that can scale ally, systems will operate at followed by systems able to operate the vehicle sor performing multiple tasks. Today’s high- with automotive product lines and be upgraded higher speeds or in more-complex end vehicles can include adas products with not with new enhancements to suit demanding and urban settings, and offer addi - Ford, are introducing moderate- two cities, to take advantage of only highly advanced rear-cameras, but fusion- ever-evolving customer requirements. tional functionality such as the functioning systems for defined laser scan mapping data. Over sensor systems that simultaneously perform Automotive OEMs leverage such devices in ability to merge, change lanes or geographic areas (typically geo- time, system functionality will in - multiple tasks such as blind-spot and lane-de - many configurations. A device can serve as a negotiate an intersection. A subset fenced), such as a particular crease and the number and com - parture warning, pedestrian and sign detection, multi-sensor, multi-feature driver assist plat - of these OEMs, such as Volvo and stretch of an interstate between plexity of geographic areas automated cruise control, forward-collision form, high-resolution video and graphics plat - available to the system will ex - warning and even drowsy-driver detection and form, vehicle networking and connectivity pand (green line in Fig. 3). Fi - warning. The latter monitors the driver’s eyes platform, and image-processing and recogni - nally, Google’s approach has been to detect eye patterns that may indicate he or tion platform. In these applications, users im - to develop a highly functioning, she is falling asleep at the wheel and needs a plement algorithms for the design’s most fully autonomous vehicle from the sonic alert or even a puff of smelling salts. complex and compute-intensive functions in outset (in geo-fenced areas and for What’s more, over the past five years, an in - the logic portion of the SoC and implement se - low-speed city or campus driv - creasing number of features once offered only rial processing in the onboard Arm processing ing), then test and refine its capa - in premium vehicle lines are quickly becoming system. They leverage the SoC’s high-speed IO bilities in increasingly complex standard in even economy lines. In short, to link to sensors and create highly reliable environments (in orange on Fig. OEMs are leveraging adas as competitive sell - connections to automotive networks. They can 3). ing points for their vehicles. also leverage IP and design sites such as Xil - Today, OEMs are moving beyond the adas inx’s Vivado to develop adas platforms quickly. Adoption and diffusion warning features and are starting to network Xilinx has a rich history in automotive, but While OEMs are choosing differ - adas into the controls of the vehicle to take with the launch of the Zynq-7000 all program - ent strategies to bring adas and charge actively and momentarily. Adaptive mable SoC in 2011, the company has become a vehicle autonomy to market, adas- cruise control, intelligent speed control, lane- provider of choice in for much of the adas mar - equipped vehicles of increasing keep assist, collision avoidance and even auto - ket. Companies such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, capability have already been in - mated parking are available. And these Nissan, VW, Honda, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, troduced nearly every year since remarkable technologies represent the first Mazda, Acura, Subaru and Audi are among the 2010 and continue to roll out an - Fig. 4: Additional sales for adas and autonomous vehicle steps in the automotive industry’s race to offer OEMs that have placed these FPGAs and SoCs nually. In 2013, fully 29 per cent technology will pick up as consumers see the safety and consumers fully autonomous, self-driving vehi - at the heart of adas products. of passenger vehicle models of - convenience benefits fered optional forward-collision
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vehicle costs, but they will still be road will be a significant accelera - adopted much faster than were tor of demand. conventional automobiles. As A diffusion model can help bet - with the uptake of other new tech - ter understand the pace of intro - nologies, we expect a wave of duction of the technology and the first movers and early adopters to uptake by consumers. The model drive early sales of adas-equipped is scenario based, with numerous vehicles, followed by gradual inputs. A few key factors are an - adoption by the majority of con - nual vehicle sales, adas technol - sumers once the safety benefits ogy introduction dates and fleet have been proven (see Fig. 4). turnover forecasts. The results are Importantly, the current addi - striking. In one run of the model, tional cost of a typical adas suite by 2035 more than 50 per cent of of equipment is only about $3000 vehicles and 85 per cent of new- (declining at about seven to nine vehicle sales across all segments per cent per year), or about ten per had one generation or another of Fig. 6: Adas and autonomy will have a major impact on many cent of the cost of the average ve - adas-equipped or autonomous ve - ancillary industries besides automotive hicle sold in the USA of $33,560. hicles (see Fig. 5). Of course, dif - For luxury vehicles, the adas ferent levels of adas and of equipment cost represents only autonomy will have different im - experiences. But there are also ware and infotainment. Auto in - two to three per cent of the vehi - pacts on society, including differ - risks regarding competitive tim - surance companies will need to Fig. 5: Cumulative sales for adas and autonomous vehicle cle sale price on average. ent levels of total annual crash ing, technology capability (hard - develop new business models as technology could approach 85 per cent of total car sales by Consumer research into adas reduction, different impacts on ware and software), complex crashes diminish in both fre - 2035, according to one model and autonomy indicates that con - traffic congestion and different sourcing, technical selling capa - quency and severity, with corre - sumers will be initially drawn to impacts on shared-vehicle, Uber- bility of dealers and brand differ - sponding reductions in premiums. the safety and convenience of this like services. entiation. Automotive OEM, Property developers, garages, warning and, of those, 12 per cent largely due to their high relative technology. Safety will be a large component and aftermarket sup - transportation engineering and Ecosystem implications had autonomous braking. This cost as compared with consumer motivator for families as they pliers also are likely to have in - construction firms, and transit year’s Mercedes entry-level pre - electronics, and to the need for begin to hear that adas-equipped The automotive sector and adja - creased product liability risks as agencies must all consider how mium CLA sedans come standard highways to be constructed. In vehicles avoided crashes that cent industries form a large their technologies assume direct transportation will change as vehi - with a forward-collision preven - contrast, the smartphone is con - might have injured or killed the ecosystem with pervasive reach responsibility for more of the cles become safer, perhaps owned tion system, and Volvo has made sidered to be the fastest-adopted vehicle’s occupants. But the big across the global economy; in the driving. less by individual families and ul - its City Safety braking system technology in history, on track to driver will be time recapture. USA, transportation represents Auto parts and component sup - timately are fully automated. standard on its XC60 since 2010. reach saturation in a decade. Mo - Being able to cruise along a mo - just under ten per cent of GDP. As pliers and adjacent industries have The three technology-driven Now that the early generations of bile phones – largely what we torway – and soon other road innovation in the form of electrifi - their own opportunities and risks. trends that are simultaneously ar - this technology are available, how today call feature phones – took types – while paying cation, connectivity and automa - Chip makers and security compa - riving to disrupt significantly the fast will consumers adopt it? 20 years to reach saturation and limited atten - tion disrupts the status quo, the nies have significant opportunities automotive status quo – electrifi - To understand the adoption of conventional landlines took a tion to effects will be felt not just by to enable and secure this function - cation, connectivity and autonomy adas-enabled and autonomous ve - century, largely be - the OEMs, but also by numerous ality. Telematics content and plat - – are here today. Companies that hicles, it is instructive to look at cause of the need other sectors and businesses that form providers, as well as move quickly to take advantage of adoption rates of other technolo - to build out the have previously been structured telecoms network operators, have the opportunities are likely to suc - gies. As a general trend, modern landline net - around conventional personal ve - opportunities in areas such as ceed. Laggards – well, history has technologies such as the mobile works. hicles (see Fig. 6). mapping, car sharing, parking shown what usually happens to phone, internet and PC have been Adas- Car makers have many opportu - apps, infotainment, vehicle-to-X them. adopted at a much faster rate than equipped and au - nities as the race to deliver ad - communications and vehicle-to- Thomas Gage is CEO and man - older technologies such as the tonomous vehicles vanced functionality accelerates. web integration. aging director and Jonathan VCR or TV. Cars have conven - likely will be adopted These include more luxury vehi - Traditional vehicle hardware Short range radar Morris senior associate, both at tionally been one of the slower at rates slightly slower than cles and features, more telematics suppliers are likely to be price- from Continental Marconi Pacific technologies to be adopted. This is other modern technology due to and infotainment, and new driving squeezed as value moves to soft -
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s the rate of smartphone Samsung edging out Apple by just use in vehicles continues a percentage point margin (34 per to grow rapidly in nearly cent Samsung to 33 per cent for every major market globally, vehi - Apple). Respondents from the UK Acle manufacturers and suppliers also showed the largest variety of LISTEN ON are rushing to integrate and incor - smartphone brand ownership in A recent IHS survey investigated the porate design and connectivity el - the survey, demonstrating an op - ements into new vehicles to portunity for vehicle app integra - use of smartphones and listening address the market demand and tion ecosystems that cater to a choices in vehicles desire among consumers. wider variety of devices, accord - More than 85 per cent of new ing to the research. car intenders in Germany and the Operating systems also varied, UK have a smartphone, according with 67 per cent of German con - to recent research from IHS Auto - sumers reporting Android use motive. compared with just 21 per cent for The report, Apps in the Car iOS systems. In the UK, findings 2015, includes regional prefer - were not as dramatic, though An - ences from a recent consumer droid led the way with just over study conducted by IHS Automo - 50 per cent of respondents com - tive. More than 4000 vehicle own - pared with just 30 per cent iOS ers who intend on purchasing a users. new vehicle within the next 36 Respondents in the UK over - months were surveyed, represent - whelmingly (more than 80 per ing four key automotive markets – cent) indicated that using their the USA, China, Germany and the smartphone while driving was dis - UK. tracting, while just over 75 per “Across the UK and Germany, cent of respondents in Germany we saw very similar results, found it distracting. Interestingly, though not exact,” said Colin just over 60 per cent of respon - Bird, senior analyst, automotive dents from the UK indicated they software, apps and services at IHS prefer controlling their smart - Automotive. “Consumers in these phone with in-vehicle voice con - countries rely on their phones for trols, while nearly 80 per cent of in-vehicle connectivity and use a Germany-based respondents indi - variety of apps while driving. Our cated they prefer to do so. In both research identifies many trends countries, about 65 per cent of re - that can help foster further devel - spondents reported using their opment for technology in vehicles phone as a navigation aid for sold in these countries.” directions or points of interest Among new vehicle intenders in while driving. Germany, Samsung smartphones When it comes to using Blue - led the way with 49 per cent of re - tooth pairing to stream audio from People have more in-vehicle listening spondents indicating Samsung as a smartphone into the vehicle, less choices than ever, as seen in this the brand they owned and used than 65 per cent of respondents in Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupé most often. Apple ranked second the UK reported doing so, while at just 21 per cent. In the UK, more than 70 per cent of respon - ownership of Samsung and Apple dents in Germany indicated doing devices was nearly equal with so.
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FM radio and CD and DVD play - ers were cited by more than 65 per cent of respondents as their listen - IN THE COCKPIT ing method of choice in the UK, while respondents based in Ger - many indicated similar prefer - ences. Across all respondents, more than 50 per cent indicated listening to music that was stored on their mobile device was among the top choices for in-vehicle lis - Use of smartphones in vehicles (Source: IHS Automotive) tening. Internet or streaming radio and HD radio followed in the rankings. Consumers in the UK and Ger - cent and EE used by 17 per cent Nearly 40 per cent of respon - many also indicated preferences among respondents. dents in the UK report said they for interacting with smartphones In Germany, however, T-Mobile subscribe to a premium streaming in the vehicle through an in-vehi - led among carriers, with 25 per radio or on-demand streaming cle touchscreen and steering cent share of the market for re - service, while less than 30 per wheel controls, each of which spondents. O2 and Vodafone fol - cent of German responders do. were cited by more than 60 per lowed closely behind, with 22 and According to the report, top in - cent of respondents. 21 per cent of respondents, re - ternet radio and audio apps in the spectively. UK and Germany include Spotify Carrier and data plans with 33 per cent share among re - There is high growth in cockpit Infotainment Eighty-three per cent of respon - spondents in each country, fol - electronics as seen from the dents in the UK indicated their When asked about radio and info - lowed by ITunes Radio with just inside of Ford’s C-Max mobile phone package included a tainment systems, 60 per cent of 13 per cent in both the UK and data plan, while just 60 per cent of respondents in the UK indicated Germany. However, Google Play respondents in Germany reported that they would prefer a radio or was close behind, with 12 per cent having one. This could be a sign infotainment system designed by of respondents in Germany noting A global market study on automotive inclined towards a more informed that German respondents rely Apple or Google, while 55 per that as the app they use most cockpit electronics finds that the driving experience. more heavily on Wifi networks cent of respondents in Germany often. Google Play netted just six With the increasing number of when they travel with their agreed with that sentiment. per cent interest among UK re - infotainment and navigation segment road accidents, vehicle owners are phones, suggesting that embedded Somewhat surprisingly, AM and spondents, however. turning towards more automated connectivity might be of more will witness the highest growth by 2020 vehicles. Stringent regulations are value in Germany. Alternatively, leading to the inclusion of ad - UK-based respondents may be apt utomotive cockpit elec - Persistence Market Research. The vanced features in passenger cars to use tethered infotainment apps tronics are used to en - per capita car ownership has been including tyre pressure monitoring and CE telematics more often. hance driving conditions continuously rising due to a system (TPMS), electronic stabil - More than 70 per cent of re - and to create a comfortable atmos - worldwide increase in the middle- ity control and occupant detection. spondents subscribe to a monthly Aphere inside the vehicle. Their class population. Under pressure mobile plan, with less than 30 per sales are made through original Growing concerns of the con - cent indicating they have pre-paid equipment manufacturer (OEM) sumers regarding safety has in - OEMs are under constant pressure or pay-as-you-go plans. When contracts and the aftermarket. creased the demand for automated to equip their vehicles with ad - asked about carrier use, top mo - Increasing per capita income passenger cars that give the driv - vanced safety systems. North bile carriers were very competi - and industrial development are ers higher control over their vehi - America, Japan, China and South tive among UK-based key drivers for the automotive and cles. Infotainment has seen a Korea are the major countries respondents, with O2 having 25 cockpit electronics industry glob - significant rise in recent years Smartphone operating systems used (Source: IHS Automotive) where these regulations have been per cent share, Vodafone at 18 per ally, according to a report from since the consumers are seen to be imposed. For instance, the South
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Brazil Certain developing countries are FFuueell ssttaattiioonn ooff tthhee ffuuttuurree reporting high growth rates in the cockpit electronics market. Brazil was the sixth largest automobile producer globally. It is a young country with over half of its popu - lation below thirty years of age and over 70 per cent of its popula - tion economically active. How - ever, the slowdown of its economy since 2010 has affected automobile sales in the country. The country’s cockpit electronics market is witnessing high growth Continental is one of the major players in this segment due to its increasing per capita Europe consumption and escalating ur - Korean Ministry of Land, Trans - banisation, which stood at approx - port & Maritime Affairs issued a The Eurozone crisis remains a key imately 87 per cent in 2013. regulation effective from January concern for the automotive cock - Nissan is working with architect Foster we get around. It seems to be Major players 2013 that requires the new models pit electronics market and has & Partners to redesign fuel stations clear that electric vehicles will be of passenger vehicles and other affected the OEM sales in the The major players in this industry a major feature of the urban land - transport vehicles of 3.5 gross ve - region. include Continental, Denso, Vis - scape and, as a result, this pres - hicle weight (GVW) tons or less However, the market is expected teon, Harman, Alpine, Panasonic, issan is collaborating with innovative refuelling network is ents an exciting opportunity to to be equipped with TPMS. More - to gain momentum in this area to - Delphi, Bosch and Pioneer. architect Foster & Part - becoming vital as the market rethink the fuel station for future over, effective from June 2014, wards the end of the forecasted The companies are making new ners to rethink the fuel shifts towards alternative sources generations; a new approach to the same regulation was also ap - period as a result of expected im - investments to improve their tech - station of the future. The concept such as electric power. design will create a more inte - plicable to existing vehicles. Simi - provements in the economy. nology to retain their competitive - Nexplores how zero-emission tech - The concept aims to be be an - grated and communal role within lar regulations are expected to be The registration of new cars in ness in the industry. For instance, nology will influence future de - chored at the heart of a world that our towns and cities. As the lead - implemented in Japan, China and the European Union has been ob - Denso, Harman and Delphi are sign with the final design to be is concerned with a zero-emis - ers in the electric vehicle market, India by 2017, 2018 and 2019 re - served to be increasing every actively funding their research revealed later this year. sions society, connected commu - Nissan has been critical in provid - spectively. month as compared with sales in and development activities. Because by 2020 there will be nities, autonomous drive and the ing insight on how the motorists the same month for the previous almost one million electric vehi - internet of things. The goal is to of the future will interact with the Sensors year. cles on the road, Nissan realised demonstrate the host of benefits built environment.” Automotive sensors such as GPS According to the European Au - that a rethink was needed in fuel brought by a smart EV ecosystem The collaboration to conceive a systems and humidity sensors tomobile Manufacturers’ Associa - station design. So it decided to – not just in terms of mobility, but new vision of the fuel station keep the driver more informed tion (EAMA), Spain, the UK and challenge conventions to offer a in harnessing the potential of bat - comes as the popularity of electric about the location of vehicle, Italy witnessed the strongest fascinating view of how fuelling tery storage and vehicle-to-grid vehicles continues to increase. routes and weather conditions. growth in the passenger car sales stations will adapt in a rapidly systems. Adoption of EVs is reaching a tip - Adaptive lighting sensors auto - in October 2014 as compared with changing world. “The aim of our collaboration ping point, and projections sug - matically adjust the luminance of October 2013. The car maker recognised that with Nissan is to highlight the gest that current growth trends the vehicle’s light beam, depend - With the tightening of regula - the refuelling infrastructure of the magnitude of the challenge that will only accelerate in pace. ing on the light and road condi - tions for the passenger car manu - future represented the perfect op - we face in evolving our cities to “Our current refuelling infra - tions. The increasing tour and facturers – for instance, the TPMS portunity to integrate and engage meet change,” said David Nelson, structure model is out-dated and leisure activities have increased becoming mandatory for new ve - with local environments in an in - head of design at Foster & Part - faces an uncertain future unless it the scope of info-travelling to a hicles in Europe – plenty of op - novative way – potentially provid - ners. “New technologies, alterna - rapidly adapts to support the great extent and that is further fu - portunity awaits the automotive ing an energy and societal hub for tive forms of fuel and changing changing needs of consumers,” Harman is investing in research elling the demand for automotive cockpit electronic companies in modern communities. trends within our society are all said Jean-Pierre Diernaz, director and development sensors. the near term, says the report. The need for a sustainable and having a huge impact on the way of electric vehicles at Nissan.
Page 25 , September 2015 Vehicle Electronics Vehicle Electronics September 2015, Page 26 PRODUCTS PRODUCTS Elevated current sensor Safety manual helps meet ISO 26262 A safety manual and tional-safety standards at ware integration, includ - FMEDA document can Asil A or B. ing a list of tips, to help added to Hall effect range help streamline ISO The STM8A-SafeAsil engineers ensure correct 26262 functional-safety safety tools show design - and safe operation and so certification up to Asil-B ers how best to work with eliminate system failures Melexis has added an ele - formance current sensing for systems containing the microcontroller to due to the microcon - vated current version to technology,” said Bruno ST Microelectronics’ achieve the desired safety troller. its MLX91208 series of Boury, product line man - STM8AF automotive mi - tainment applications integrity level, thereby The accompanying programmable Hall-effect ager at Melexis. “High crocontrollers. such as seat adjusters, in - helping ensure certifica - FMEDA describes the current sensors. Opti - current sensing is in - With features including strumentation and light - tion. failure probabilities of mised for the high fields evitable in order to reach Can and Lin drivers, ing controllers. The safety manual has STM8 IP blocks to help that characterise hybrid the power requirements touch-sense and LCD- Tier-one equipment been developed with as - designers ensure their ap - and electric vehicle of HEVs. There is also control capability, the suppliers now tend to de - sistance from Yogitech. It plications achieve the de - (HEV) applications, the the emerging mild hybrid AEC-Q100 qualified se - sign these systems to provides guidance for sired system safety MLX91208CAV can segment to take into ac - ries is for body and info - meet ISO 26262 func - hardware design and soft - integrity. cope with up to 1kA of count, where lower power primary current. motors and generators, Thanks to the propri - along with a lower volt - High-voltage contactor is 64% etary integrated magnetic age net, dictate high cur - concentrator (IMC) tech - rents. nology, the sensors in the “The MLX91208CAV lighter than predecessor AEC-Q100-qualified se - is a well-timed response ries can accurately meas - sensing mechanism is sources of power loss that to these trends, address - The Kilovac KHR500 Earle Alldredge, product ure current without said to meet required per - are found with shunt tech - ing the relatively high ex - Bubba II high-voltage, manager at TE. including bulky external formance benchmarks. nology. pense associated with high-rupture, 600A con - Configured as a single- ferromagnetic cores that This device intrinsically “The increasing preva - inverter hardware, which tactor from TE Connec - pole, single-throw device, are required for conven - delivers the galvanic iso - lence of hybrid and elec - until now has slowed tivity is smaller, lighter the contactor can handle tional Hall-effect current lation mandated by high- tric vehicles has major down widespread HEV and switches significantly voltages from 28 to sensors. voltage applications, implications for the auto - adoption, by allowing mi - higher power than its 1000V DC and continu - The IMC structure con - while simultaneously motive sector, with ever gration to smaller, higher predecessor, the EV500 ous 600A currents. centrates the magnetic eliminating the additional greater need for high per - power density inverters.” Bubba I. Because it is not polar - flux and thereby enhances It is capable of handling ity sensitive, it allows sensor performance. Sealed connector suits safety use inrush currents as high as bidirectional load switch - The devices can thus 4kA and is hermetically ing. enable savings in board A sealed connector sys - black outer housings. terminal connections in sealed for use in harsh en - An integrated coil space and simplify the as - tem for automotive pow - The 4.0mm pitch, space-constrained appli - vironments such as economiser reduces the sembly process as they ertrain, body and safety 1.2mm connectors pro - cations. ground vehicle, marine, power required to hold are housed in surface electronics applications vide mating, sealing and The single-wire-seal solar, automotive and en - the contacts closed to mount standard soic-8 has been developed by performance for severe connection system with a ergy storage applications. 320mA at 24V DC. The packages. These sensors Molex. The MXP120 applications. The range robust perimeter seal is “The new KHR500 single-pole, double-throw also exhibit flexibility, connectors and recepta - includes a small one-by- IPX8 rated and with - high-voltage contactors auxiliary switch supports with the ability for cur - cles for safety applica - two version that meets stands high-pressure are smaller and 64 per 3A at 125V RMS or 1A at rent data to be measured tions come in distinctive Uscar-25 ergonomic re - spray environments cent lighter than our pop - 30V DC, and low-level through adjacent bus yellow outer housings, quirements. Automotive (IPX9K) under certain ular EV500 Bubba con - signals down to 5V, bars, wires or underlying while those for non-safety and commercial vehicle conditions. They are tactors, providing more 10mA. tronic cut throat and have an operating PCB traces. powertrain and body elec - manufacturers can use the compatible with AK and savings and flexibility to The contactors have an economiser. They can temperature from -40 to The contactless current tronics applications have devices to replace 1.5mm Uscar interfaces. our customers,” said integrated dual-coil elec - withstand 100,000 cycles +125˚C.
Page 27 , September 2015 Vehicle Electronics Vehicle Electronics September 2015, Page 28 PRODUCTS PRODUCTS Rugged module rides Polymer caps meet AEC-Q200 Claimed to be the first quirements of +85˚C with up to 16V. The qualifica - railway standards polymer electrolytic ca - 85 per cent relative hu - tion test plan is in accor - pacitor that meets all the midity in addition to de - dance with AEC-Q200 A rugged Com Express conduction cooling. channels, up to four USB Cabling system requirements of AEC- livering stable electrical and they are manufac - module has been devel - Based on the Freescale ports and uarts. suits EV needs Q200 for passive compo - performance at +125˚C. tured in an ISO TS 16949 oped by MEN Mikro ac - Qoriq P1013 single core The board complies nents, the T598 high “In 1999, Ko-Cap of - certified facility. cording to the EN 50155 or P1022 dual core with the Com Express A high-current cabling humidity and temperature fered engineers a break - Typical applications in - railway standard and is in processor, it runs at up to Basic form factor and system from Amphenol is series from Kemet builds through in high Now that Ko-Caps meet clude decoupling and fil - the qualification process 1GHz. IO functionality, type six pin-out. A Com said to meet energy stor - on its T591 series. capacitance, low ESR and all of the AEC-Q200 re - tering of DC-to-DC to achieve Sil 2 certifica - includes up to three Giga - Express version without age needs in electric vehi - The company has re - long lifetime capacitors,” quirements, engineers can converters in automotive tion. Due to its robust de - bit Ethernet and PCI Ex - the aluminium frame is cles, hybrid electric fined the design, materi - said Philip Lessner, incorporate these innova - infotainment and ad - sign it is particularly press interfaces, two Sata also on offer. vehicles, and commercial als and manufacturing to Kemet chief technology tive capacitors into auto - vanced driver assistance, suitable for safety-critical and residential battery deliver higher stability officer. “Since this time, motive and other harsh as well as industrial and applications in mobile storage systems. and endurance under designers have utilised environment applica - telecoms applications markets but also in indus - The SurLok Plus can be harsh conditions. These polymer electrolytic ca - tions.” where harsh conditions trial applications. used by inverter and improvements result in a pacitors in space- The series is available such as high humidity and The CB30C complies power supply manufac - design that exceeds the constrained or high per - in capacitances up to temperature are of con - with EN 50129 for sys - turers and is optimised for humidity bias testing re - formance applications. 330µF and rated voltages cern. tem and hardware devel - battery pack connections opment in railways. The from 50 to 400A using a certification package in - touch-safe interface. With Brushless motor pre-driver IC cludes the safety case and a flexible design to ac - the certification report commodate dimensional from TÜV SÜD. The constraints, this low pro - enhanced for functional safety package aims to simplify file, right angle Radsok the certification process ESD protection diodes pin and socket connector A brushless motor pre- and under-voltage, over pendent control possible. of the final system. is space efficient. driver IC has been en - temperature and short de - Voltage drop caused by For achieving Sil 2, the Vishay Intertechnology protection for one data It comes in an unsealed hanced to achieve tection circuits. cranking after idling re - board is monitored by a has released two bidirec - line as per IEC 61000-4- configuration or IP67 functional safety for use A built-in diagnostic duction is accommodated CPLD supervisor. If the tional symmetrical (BiSy) 2 at ±30kV (air and con - rated, which offers envi - in electric power steering circuit in the failure-de - by improving battery op - defined operating condi - ESD protection diodes in tact discharge), while the ronmental sealing to pro - systems. Sample ship - tection circuit detects any eration voltage range tions such as power sup - the compact sot-323 VCAN26A2-03G pro - tect the system from the ments of Toshiba’s latent faults. down to 4.5V. ply voltage or temper- package. tects two lines for Can elements. TB9081FG started this Built-in fail-safe relay Users can set the system ature reach critical limits, Measuring 2.3 by bus and Flex bus applica - The patented Radsok month with mass produc - pre-driver circuits drive to respond to detected the supervisor interrupts 2.1mm with a 0.95mm tions. contact technology in - tion scheduled to start in tion circuits is also incor - the semiconductor relay failures in one of two the power of the subsys - profile, the single-line The AEC-Q101- creases amperage, while August 2017. porated to secure higher between the motor and ways using the input set - tem, so external commu - VLIN26A1-03G and qualified devices have reducing insertion force, The IC integrates func - functional safety. mosfet (driver) and be - ting of the SPI communi - nications are stopped. dual-line VCAN26A2- low load capacitance of temperature rise and volt - tions, including three- The company has car - tween the power-supply cations. One setting uses It is embedded in an 03G have low capaci - 10pF typical and 15pF age drop. The contacts phase pre-driver circuits, ried out functional safety side and mosfet (driver). the IC to stop the external aluminium frame protect - tance and leakage current maximum, maximum provide a large contact fail-safe relay pre-driver analyses to simulate vari - The fail-safe relay pre- mosfet, the other switches ing the electronics against for protecting automotive leakage current of less area, while using the ten - circuits and motor current ous system failures and driver circuit has five to external control of the environmental impacts data lines against tran - than 0.05µA, and a work - sile strength properties of detection circuits, plus will provide documenta - channels, three for the mosfet using the MCU. such as humidity, dust or sient voltage signals. ing voltage of ±26.5V. the flat, high conductivity various failure detection tion, such as FMEDA, to motor side and two for Selection can be made ac - electromagnetic radia - For Lin bus applica - The protection diodes alloy grid for the high circuits. An initial diagno - support safety analysis the power-supply side. cording to the user’s ap - tion. Operating tempera - tions, the VLIN26A1- are lead (Pb)-free and normal forces required sis circuit to detect latent and design. Both have dedicated input plication or system, and ture is -40 to +85˚C via 03G provides transient RoHS-compliant. for conductivity. faults in the failure detec - There is built-in over terminals, making inde - for various systems.
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Throttle actuator is Signal tester provides e-call check competition proven Functionality has been An electronic throttle (during warm up), auto - added to a laboratory net - actuator from Jenvey Dy - blip with paddleshift work simulator to make it namics is modular, mak - transmission, launch and suitable for carrying out ing it compatible with traction control, anti-lag, hardware-in-the-loop sys - many aftermarket inde - switchable pedal maps, tem level tests for the Eu - pendent throttle body controllable push-to-pass ropean e-call system and (ITB) kits for road or race strategy, pit lane speed Russian ERA-Glonass applications, and pro - control, and variable system. vides precise control over bank-to-bank control. The e-call tester option throttle actuation to opti - The actuator can closely (MX703330E) and MSD mise induction systems. monitor pedal position Glonass option (MX- “We have identified the versus throttle position, Robust drams 703330E-031) used in need for a highly config - improve throttle control combination with the An - velopment and evalua - This is claimed to be the wireless modules. Com - urable, fit-and-forget and ensure active closure like it hot ritsu MD8475A support tion. first system level test en - posed of hardware and electronic actuator that is or power down to safe - in-house testing and eval - As it is difficult to test vironment using a flexi - multiple measurement good enough to be used in guard the competition A family of robust dram ECC drams have already uation of communica - emergency call systems ble control gui and user software options, it sup - international race series, powertrain in the event of components can with - proven their radiation tions modules (in-vehicle using a live network, the configurable settings to ports all standard cellular yet is more attainable any component failure. stand the high operating hardness,” said Joseph systems) with built-in e- applications support lab - provide a test environ - communications tech - than often complicated, The unit is tested to func - temperatures and stress in Chan, general manager of call and ERA-Glonass oratory testing, which ment where different nologies, enabling chipset cost- or compatibility- tion from -20 to +140˚C, applications such as auto - Intelligent Memory. functions, as well as gen - cuts development time by modes and configurations and module developers to prohibitive bespoke fly- weighs 500g and has a motive, avionic, aero - “Now we want to show eral evaluation following letting evaluations be per - of network and e-call en - verify the performance by-wire systems,” said maximum torque capac - space and military the automotive and installation of the mod - formed in-house using the vironments can be config - and functions of commu - Jenvey managing director ity of 3600Nmm, allow - without requiring a dou - avionic market that IM ules in automobiles. The network simulator. It also ured and tested with ease. nications devices. With Mike Jenvey. “The actua - ing throttle opening times bled or quadrupled re - has the perfect solution flexible software tool can reduces the amount of The instrument operates its SmartStudio gui, it is tor is competition-proven of less than 0.1s from 10 fresh-rate to work against for the increased demands simulate public safety an - field testing needed to as an all-in-one network suitable for evaluating in- having completed its first to 90 per cent throttle. the physical limitations of of high operating temper - swering points (PSAP) to verify and de-bug e-call simulator for testing vehicle systems for V2X 24-hour race on a GT car It requires standalone dram cells. ature and reliability with - simplify application de - systems. multi-standard cellular and M2M testing. without issue, as part of a ECU control and is com - Based on its ECC dram out any performance loss. rigorous in-house testing patible with all the com - technology, Intelligent Our products are made Editor and Publisher: © 2015 Vehicle Electronics procedure.” pany’s ITB kits, including Memory’s devices can for the markets that re - Steve Rogerson ISSN 2055-1177 Benefits of electronic downdraft SFD and SFD operate stable even at quire long-term availabil - [email protected] throttle actuation include taper kits for the Chevro - +125˚C without increas - ity without revision Vehicle Electronics is available to readers world - packaging, idle control let LS3 V8 engine. ing the refresh-rate. shrinks.” Advertising Manager: wide. 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