NEWS Altran and Jaguar collaborate on software architecture
Engineering consultancy next generation of intelli - of the technical and com - novation, and is enabling Altran and Jaguar Land gent vehicles and ma - mercial perspective both its partners to do the Rover are collaborating to chines. companies have on this same. The company is The monthly magazine for automotive electronics engineers develop and market an “Jaguar Land Rover key technical domain,” moving towards a whole open software platform and Altran have been col - said Cyril Roger, senior new model of co-innova - Issue 25 for traditional electrical laborating for the past executive vice-president tion to bring more value, Ford set to help Google January 2016 and electronic automotive five years on a number of for Altran. “It reinforces assets and expertise IN THIS architectures that will projects and this partner - Altran’s new strategic di - across industries to its with autonomous driving combine industrial and ship is the formalisation rection in accelerating in - customers.” ISSUE engineering techniques with the processes, meth - Adam’s Apple or Google maps Ford and Google are Page 2: Altran and ods and tools found in the teaming up to develop au - Jaguar collaborate consumer electronics in - tonomous vehicles. Both dustry. companies have been Page 5: Harman uses The combination of pushing ahead with au - Dirac audio and Jaguar Land Rover’s ex - tonomous vehicle tests tuning technology perience and knowledge with Google announcing of the premium automo - last January that it hoped Page 8: Navman and tive sector and Altran’s to have driverless cars on Here analytics expertise across industry the market within five sectors in software archi - years. Page 9: Interview: tectures will enable the And Ford last month NXP EVP on introduction of this announced that it had se - Google autonomous test vehicle Freescale takeover technology to a host of cured a California au - different vehicles and ma - tonomous driving permit Tester Programme to test makers. However, the Page 15: Peugeot chines. The product has to begin testing fully au - autonomous vehicles on new plan is for Ford and Citroën simulation potential for application tonomous vehicles on public roads. The testing Google to form a joint for powertrains in the medical, rail, indus - public roads this year. is an advancement of venture, though Google trial automation and aero - More details are ex - Ford’s ten-year au - already has more than 50 Vauxhall’s Adam city car is equipped with the latest-generation R4.0 In - Page 20: Bosch’s space sectors. pected to be announced at tonomous vehicle devel - test vehicles on public telliLink system infotainment technology including smartphone integra - connected car work This could lead to the this month’s Consumer opment programme and a roads in California and creation of an ecosystem tion and the choice of Apple Maps and Google Maps. The car maker’s Electronics Show in Las key element of Ford Texas. OnStar is also available on Adam Slam, S and Rocks models, enabling Page 23: Driver of application developers Vegas. Smart Mobility, the plan But the advantage for personal connectivity and a service assistant while also becoming a Wifi assistance on Infiniti across the automotive Google’s work on self- to take the company to Google is that if and hotspot for up to seven mobile devices. Q50 sports saloon and technology industry, driving cars started with the next level in connec - when the car goes into paving the way for the “The Vauxhall Adam in all its variants is the perfect example of how adding components to ex - tivity, mobility, au - mass production it would much individuality and technology can be packed into a small car,” said Page 28: Dashcam isting cars but since de - tonomous vehicles, the have access to Ford’s Stuart Harris, Vauxhall’s head of car line brand. “And with the new helps athlete Next issue cided to build a prototype customer experience, and manufacturing facilities smartphone-compatible IntelliLink system and Vauxhall OnStar, we boost from the ground up. data and analytics. rather than having to our successful lifestyle city car onto a higher level.” Page 29: Product Due to annual holidays, Ford is officially en - Google said earlier this build its own from scratch Features include clear 17.9cm colour touchscreen, connectivity options news the February issue of rolled in the California year that it was interested or license production to Vehicle Electronics will via USB and Bluetooth for audio streaming and viewing photographs, Autonomous Vehicle in working with other car another car company. videos and films, and making a telephone call via the hands-free module. Page 34: Contact be coming out later in the details month than usual. vehicle-electronics.biz Vehicle Electronics January 2016, Page 2 NEWS NEWS Gentex LCD mirror on Cadillacs at CES Twenty million autonomous cars by 2025
Gentex is demonstrating Gentex is also display - There will be almost 20 and automated braking five most promising play - concerns over the deci - several automotive vi - ing at CES its custom-de - million fully autonomous will become key. It ar - ers in the driverless car sion making capabilities sion-enhancing technolo - signed camera systems or self-driving vehicles gued these systems would sector as Google, Volvo, of these systems have gies, including its all-new engineered specifically on the road by 2025, with serve to prepare drivers Daimler, Tesla and Apple. been raised and questions FDM full display mirror for automotive forward consumer adoption set to for the psychological They were scored on key have been asked about the on the 2016 Cadillac CT6 facing machine vision ap - take off in 2021, accord - change from the role of factors such as live trials, decisions autonomous ve - luxury sedan and the plications and rear vision ing to Juniper Research. driving a car to operating kilometres tested on road, hicles would take when 2017 Cadillac XT5 automotive video camera. Driven by increased a driverless car. technology development, presented with the trolley crossover, at this month’s It consists of a proprietary safety and convenience Although the market project scale and scope, problem, where the au - Consumer Electronics cmos imager that delivers for drivers, development has progressed to live tri - future potential, and mar - tonomous car will be Show in Las Vegas. Cadillac CT6 will feature Gentex FDM at CES a claimed unprecedented has progressed to live tri - als, a monetisation strat - ket opportunities. forced to choose between “The two Cadillac vehi - dynamic range with als with North America egy has not become Google was ranked as two disastrous outcomes. cles in our CES booth XT5, and our HomeLink new full display mirror, pixel-level intelligence. and western Europe set to evident. Stakeholders are the most promising The study argued that will be equipped with car-to-home automation which is an on-demand, Each individual camera become the first to wit - investigating multiple player, having been in de - the siloed nature of tech - several of Gentex’s pro - system located on both mirror-borne LCD that pixel can determine its ness driverless cars in use business models with velopment the longest nology development re - prietary technologies, in - vehicles,” said Gentex VP streams live, panoramic own exposure and self- on the road. manufacturers expected and having logged the quired stakeholders to cluding glare-eliminating of engineering Neil video of the vehicle’s adjust so that the brightest The research found in to engage in product li - highest amount of au - collaborate and ensure a automatic-dimming exte - Boehm. “They are the rearward view in order to and darkest areas of any the interim consumer use censing, self-production tonomous kilometres on minimum level of safety rior mirrors with side first production vehicles dramatically improve given scene are clear and of adas technologies such or open sourcing. public roads. for those using au - blind zone alerts on the to publicly display our driver rear vision.“ visible. as adaptive cruise control Juniper ranked the top The research noted that tonomous driving. Ceva and Yogitech present IDT buys ZMDI 26262 design package at CES
Integrated Device Tech - “In addition to increasing Ceva has completed an DSPs are being demon - nology (IDT) has com - our technology portfolio, ISO 26262 compliant strated this month at the pleted the acquisition of we gain a very comple - safety design package Consumer Electronics privately held ZMDI mentary customer base that helps its customers Show in Las Vegas (Zentrum Mikroelek - that significantly extends accelerate the certifica - “The XM4 imaging and tronik Dresden) for our future ability to pro - tion of adas using its vision DSP not only pres - $307m. Announced in the vide integrated system- XM4 imaging and vision ents the automotive sector autumn, the acquisition level semiconductor DSP. Functional safety with the most power-effi - brings to IDT a highly re - solutions.” company Yogitech deliv - cient and cost-effective garded automotive and ZMDI’s strength in the ered the failure modes ef - way to implement adas industrial business, as automotive and industrial fects and diagnostic vision processing, but well as programmable segments provides IDT analysis (FMEDA) report also addresses the critical power devices and signal design-in leverage for and advice on achieving functional safety require - conditioning products. wireless charging, power Asil B compliancy. ments through our work “IDT has gained an ex - management, and timing The XM4 is already li - with Yogitech,” said Eran traordinarily talented and signal conditioning. censed and in design for Briman, vice president of team and intellectual The programmable power safety-critical automotive marketing at Ceva. property that will help devices complement applications and is said to The XM4 is suitable for fuel our growth as we IDT’s low- and medium- be the only licensable vi - vision-based adas, thanks continue to outpace the power devices, creating a sion processor IP today to to its processing power semiconductor industry at franchise for high-perfor - support the Asil B safety and energy efficiency for large,” said IDT president mance, scalable power integrity level. designers to implement and CEO Greg Waters. management. The imaging and vision complex algorithms.
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Harman and Dirac work leader in the development of audio quality optimisa - TomTom converts to tion technologies, and we together on audio apps are pleased to integrate their exceptional solu - transactional mapmaking Harman is to use Dirac become a worldwide dis - ship with Dirac that pro - tions with Harman’s su - Research’s digital audio tributor of Dirac’s sound vides the Bowers & perior audio systems to TomTom has completed dates to be continuously time quality and accuracy “This has been a huge, and tuning technology in technologies to automo - Wilkins in-car surround bring best-in-class audio the move to a transac - released to users,” said needed for the future use- complex project for the its automotive audio and tive sound system suppli - system for the Volvo to our automotive part - tional-based mapmaking Harold Goddijn, CEO at cases such as driver assis - maps team at TomTom infotainment applica - ers and car makers. XC90 using Dirac Unison ners around the world,” platform so it can opti - TomTom. “The era of tance applications and and I’m very proud of tions. Through this part - The deal builds on Har - sound optimisation. said Michael Mauser, ex - mise crowd-sourced data map updates in batches is highly automated driv - what we’ve achieved and nership, Harman will also man’s existing partner - “Dirac continues to be a ecutive vice president at alongside traditional over; now we can update ing.” the time in which it has Harman. “Integrating mapmaking methods. maps as changes are de - The platform reduces been achieved,” said Who’s looking at Subaru? Dirac technologies into “We are the first to de - tected. This puts TomTom the time between detect - Charles Cautley, manag - Harman’s products will liver a global platform in a unique position to ing changes in the real ing director for maps at further create great that allows for map up - start providing the real- world and updating the TomTom. “There is a lot lifestyle experiences for map on an end-user’s de - of potential with this new today’s connected gener - vice. A change can pass platform and with it we ation through premium Littelfuse invests through TomTom’s map - look forward to deliver - automotive audio and in - making process, be fully ing the high-quality map fotainment systems.” in silicon carbide quality assured in real content that meets the Harman automotive time, and end up in a dri - growing customer loca - partners will have the op - As part of its move into our portfolio with strate - ver’s map in just minutes. tion requirements.” portunity to license power semiconductors gically relevant and inno - Dirac’s technologies for for industrial and automo - vative technology,” said sound optimisation di - tive markets, Littelfuse Ian Highley, Littelfuse rectly within eligible has made an investment CTO. “SiC power tech - models, including room in Monolith Semiconduc - nology is among the most correction, sound field tor, a start-up company promising advancements synthesis and active room developing silicon car - in the semiconductor The Subaru Outback equipped with the car maker’s EyeSight collision treatment. Additionally, bide technology. market today. It will be an avoidance technology has been awarded the highest possible safety rating Harman will work closely SiC is a semiconductor important tool in helping – a Top Safety Pick+ (TSP+) – by the Insurance Institute for Highway with Dirac R&D engi - material that enables us solve complex prob - Safety (IIHS). The institute carries out some of the most demanding safety neers to ensure seamless power devices to operate lems for our customers.” tests carried out anywhere in the world. integration of existing at higher switching fre - Initially, this is not a The IIHS, a not-for-profit organisation based in the USA, awarded the and new technologies into quencies and tempera - material investment for Outback with its TSP+ rating after it achieved the highest possible score automotive audio and in - tures than conventional Littelfuse; however, the in all five tests of the car’s collision safety performance. It also scored the fotainment applications. silicon. This allows in - company has committed maximum possible rating for front crash prevention, as a result of the “Harman has become verters and other energy to add to its investment EyeSight technology. the premier audio and in - conversion systems to be once Monolith has hit EyeSight acts as a second pair of eyes for drivers, employing stereo fotainment provider for built with improved certain milestones. colour camera technology to monitor the road and traffic ahead for po - automotive applications, power density, energy ef - “Forming this strategic tential hazards. It is a major contributing factor to the Outback’s maxi - and we’re thrilled to work ficiency and cost. partnership with Littel - mum five-star Euro NCap crash test safety rating, achieved earlier this closely together and add “Investing in and part - fuse accelerates develop - year. our digital audio to the nering with Monolith’s ment and helps bring SiC The two colour cameras are either side of the rear view mirror to detect most compelling automo - experienced team of sili - technology to the mar - the presence of vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists and other potential hazards tive audio portfolio in the con carbide and power ket,” said Sujit Banerjee, up to 110m in front. world,” said Mathias Jo - semiconductor experts al - CEO of Monolith Semi - hansson, CEO of Dirac. lows us to quickly evolve conductor.
Page 5, January 2016 Vehicle Electronics Vehicle Electronics January 2016, Page 6 NEWS NEWS Safety technology drives Navman turns to Here for driver analytics Navigation companies APIs from the Here plat - speed limits and road tion offering,” said Jussi automotive displays market Here and Navman Wire - form, the application en - signs. The result is a post- Koski, director at Here. less worked together to sures accurate analysis of drive analysis that identi - “Using our platform, Driven by continued in - each estimated to grow by build a driver behaviour driver compliance with fies if the driver is which includes road at - novation in vehicle con - more than 40 per cent analytics application that legal restrictions along exhibiting any unsafe be - tributes specifically for nectivity and safety over the forecast period, helps improve safety for designated routes. For ex - haviour. trucks, Navman can give technologies, global rev - each surpassing 60 mil - global fleet managers. ample, the application “We’re happy to sup - its customers additional enue from automotive lion units by 2021. IHS Safety Analytics, an ap - matches the route a driver port Navman Wireless on insights into their drivers’ display systems will grow forecasts an even higher plication within Navman took using GPS coordi - this key addition to their safety performance on the at a compound annual growth rate for the pro - Wireless’ Director suite nates and compares that fleet management portfo - road, which is critical for growth rate (CAGR) of duction of head-up dis - of fleet management soft - with data such as posted lio with our global loca - fleet managers.” more than 11 per cent to plays, which will exceed ware and services, en - US$18.6bn by the end of Global automotive displays forecast from IHS 65 per cent, surpassing ables fleet managers to Mercedes E Class to change lanes by itself 2021, according to IHS. six million units annually measure how safely their This will add nearly $9bn in that same timeframe. drivers are performing on in annual revenue com - at nearly 21 per cent from Automotive. “There is In China, volume is the road by monitoring pared with 2015. 2015. additional growth oppor - boosted, because OEMs their behaviour in real The data represent pro - “The automotive dis - tunity in lower volume are starting to add smaller time. The application can duction of instrument plays supply chain will display applications for displays into the instru - also calculate a cumula - clusters, head-up displays see some amazing growth rear-seat entertainment, ment cluster and centre tive, quantitative score for and centre stack displays and innovation through to HVAC control panels, stack, while regional ve - each individual driver so as full automotive mod - the end of the decade, as and new applications hicle sales also grow. managers can offer cor - ules, not just display pan - more vehicles debut new such as smart mirrors Head-up displays are rective assistance and els. Centre stack displays displays or standardise with full displays entering growing globally, as training programmes to are expected to account larger ones in the instru - the market now.” prices for these new and address areas of concern. for half the overall rev - ment cluster, centre stack Global production vol - innovative technologies To build the applica - enue growth, while head- and head-up display sys - umes for factory-installed fall and they become in - tions, Navman turned to up displays will boast the tems,” said Mark Boyad - centre stack and instru - creasingly relevant to re - the Here Platform for strongest revenue CAGR jis, senior analyst at IHS ment cluster displays are duce driver distraction. Business suite of location services. Cautious thumbs-up for Tesla autopilot “Here was the perfect Mercedes-Benz will expand the driving assistance package of the future partner for this project,” E Class for the market launch in Germany in spring with active lane First-time users found the and adjusting the auto- the activation and deacti - felt that autopilot kept said Claude-Nicolas change assist. When the driver activates the turn indicator for more than semi-autonomous driving pilot were somewhat easy vation of the autopilot them appropriately in - Fiechter, VP for R&D at two seconds to change lanes, active lane change assist steers the vehicle system in the Tesla Model to master with training, were too subtle and rarely formed of the driving sit - Navman Wireless. “The into the adjacent lane. S impressive despite sev - but the audible tones and noticed by first-time uation, which an depth and quality of key The vehicle will only change lanes autonomously if the sensors do not eral usability bugs, ac - the icons on the instru - users; and, while the improved UI could ad - road attributes required to detect any vehicles in the relevant safety zone. It is inconsequential cording to an evaluation ment cluster were far too automated lane change dress,” said Derek Viita, support this application whether the car wants to change to the left lane for overtaking or wants from Strategy Analytics. subtle to be effective. was easy to learn and de - senior analyst. “Partici - were only available from to return to the right-hand lane. A long-range radar and the stereo cam - Users praised the re - Participants considered lightful for first-time pants’ comfort levels with Here. Now, we can give era monitor the area in front of the vehicle, while multi-mode radar sen - sponsive speed adjust - the indicators on the clus - users, the display and in - autopilot increased as fleet managers an un - sors permanently check the area to the rear and sides. ments and lane centring, ter display for current au - dicators to notify for ad - they felt the car manoeu - precedented view of Both factor-in the speed of detected vehicles in the vicinity. The driver but felt that staying per - topilot status to be elegant jacent vehicles were vre to keep them on the driver behaviour, helping needs only monitor the lane change. For Germany, the Federal Motor Ve - fectly centred within a and visually appealing rarely noticed. road and safe, but inter - them boost safety and hicle & Transport Authority has already issued provisional approval for lane was not always de - but too small or thin to be “Most participants felt estingly no participants performance.” active lane change assist. The application procedure for EU-wide ap - sirable. noticed in a first-use case; that autopilot was easy cited the HMI as a reason Leveraging fleet man - proval has been started. Controls for initiating audible tones indicating and safe to use, but fewer for feeling safer.” agement services via
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Now that NXP’s takeover of Freescale is complete, Steve Rogerson talks with executive vice president Kurt Sievers about what this will mean for the combined company’s automotive business going forward
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ack in March 2015, NXP Semiconductors shook up the electronics industry with the announcement that it was Bbuying rival Freescale Semicon - ductor to create a combined $40bn company with revenues topping $10bn. Since then, the two com - panies have spent the best part of a year sorting out the details and obtaining the necessary approvals reaching the point last month where they announced the merger was completed. And what a merger. With Freescale on board, NXP leapfrogs from fourth in the table of automotive semiconductor sup - pliers to first, knocking Renesas down to second place; Renesas was in that position partly thanks to its own takeover of NEC back in 2009. Before the merger, Freescale was fifth in the table. The move also sees Infineon drop Kurt Sievers: “We will go for the best possible team.” from second to third and ST Microelectronics from third to fourth. into existence in 2004 as the new served the same customers in such as ABS. This is a good start - Kurt Sievers. NXP’s executive name for Motorola’s semiconduc - terms of tier ones and OEMs. ing point for moving forward with vice president for automotive, tor division, which can trace its “From the customer perspective, adas applications. Freescale also sounded a note of caution about roots back to 1948. Given that we have a very high overlap,” said has a strong position in body elec - these places as he acknowledged both were major players in auto - Sievers. “We have been serving tronics.” they were based on last year’s re - motive, it is odd how little dupli - the same customers but with dif - So, he said, this meant the exist - sults. cation there was in their ferent products. This means we ing businesses were number one “I don’t know how these guys automotive ranges, a fact that now have a higher share with each in body electronics, safety, info - have been growing since,” he made the merger an attractive customer.” tainment, networking and security. said, “but I am confident we have prospect. This combination means the com - Moving on outgrown them.” “We had an extremely comple - pany can stake a strong claim to mentary product portfolio Going forward, he said, this meant being the new number one in the Background between NXP and Freescale,” the company could enter new ap - secure connected car. NXP and Freescale both have Sievers said. “This was very fortu - plications building on their com - “This is security plus adas,” he similar backgrounds with their nate; it was not by design. There bined leadership positions. said. “This is where we are put - names coming into existence is no overlap.” “We aim to continue to be the ting a lot of focus. We think we about ten years ago, but their his - For example, on the mems side number one in infotainment and have the best possible starting tories date back a lot further. The in automotive Freescale was the security, and in in-vehicle net - point for adas because we now name NXP was a rebranding in leader and NXP didn’t play at all. works,” he said. “This was all have everything that it takes. We 2006 of Philips Semiconductors, And NXP brings its analogue, RF NXP. We were by far the number have this in the sensor and radar which dates back to 1953. Like - and security products into the one in these anyway. Freescale side, in sensor fusion, and in the wise, the name Freescale came equation. However, they both brings a strong position in safety, processor side.”
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rounding driving environment, ul - “I love the technology, but I will only compete in this tournament. timately making life safer for “I don’t know how this will go drivers and consumers on the allow my family into the car if I can forward,” said Sievers, “but we road. Working prototypes of the trust it will not be hacked. This is like the idea and we will continue RF cmos IC are in the hands of in some form. We love the idea of NXP’s lead customers; they are where the combination of Freescale engaging engineers at universi - also being field tested by Google ties.” engineers working on the self-dri - and NXP is so good” Conclusion ving cars project. Bye, bye Freescale: the Freescale name has been scrapped The chip should enable a new Freescale and NXP have both generation of radar sensor assem - Kurt Sievers, NXP executive been big players in the automotive blies, roughly the size of a postage vice president for automotive market for years. Now that NXP Freescale has a digital network - is fundamental for adas.” stamp, that can be integrated in - has taken over Freescale, the com - ing business and high-end multi- Last year the company won visibly practically anywhere in the bined strength could be bigger core processors, mainly for use in V2X business with General Mo - car – an advantage for vehicle de - than the sum of the parts, or less. data centres. But NXP is now eye - tors and a part of that agreement signers as the number of sensors Sievers, will be Silicon Valley. ogy Forum, an annual four-day Only time will tell, but for now ing these for high-end data pro - was the mobile security, meaning steadily increases on the road to - “The industry will change more event in Texas that attracts a cou - the company can claim to be the cessing in vehicles and in the this has now been qualified for wards automated driving. Its in the next five to ten years than it ple of thousand engineers. This new number one semiconductor infrastructure for V2X communi - automotive use. But it is not power consumption is said to be has in the last fifty,” he said. will continue but will probably be supplier to the automotive indus - cations and cloud computing. enough to control only the wire - 40 per cent lower than conven - “Most of that change will happen rebranded the NXP Technology try. Though it will be sad to see “These will send information, less interface to the outside; the tional radar ICs. Key safety appli - in Silicon Valley. The way cars are Forum. the Freescale name disappear such as the traffic situation, back communications within the vehi - cations include emergency being designed will turn more to Less certain is what will happen from the industry, it does mean to the car,” said Sievers. cle itself need to be monitored. braking, adaptive cruise control, the way IT companies have been with the Freescale Cup, the event the new NXP is far more a one- “Say someone breaks away your blind-spot monitoring, cross-traf - working. That is where we want in which engineering students are stop shop and in a strong position Security mirror and uses the cable to get fic alert and automated parking. to be, on the forefront. We can challenged to design self-driving to combine the strengths of the He also believes that the com - into the Can bus,” said Sievers. now play a future role driving the model cars. two entities as it tackles adas and Geography bined company is now in a posi - “You have to protect internal changes.” Teams from all over the world autonomous vehicle applications. tion to tackle seriously the ECUs, and that is where Freescale From a customer facing perspec - Freescale name security concerns that connected comes in. NXP has not played tive, the two companies are in all car applications bring with them. there before.” the right places geographically. The name Freescale has gone. “The trouble with the connectiv - He was unwilling to give details However, this will inevitably lead NXP decided to scrap the name ity is it makes the car more vul - about how this is going to pan out to some consolidation, or in other from day one, which means on all nerable to being hacked,” he said. but said the company was work - words job losses. the buildings only NXP will be “I love the technology, but I will ing at securing the communica - “We will go for the best possible seen, what Sievers describes as “a only allow my family into the car tions “so the wrong stuff doesn’t team,” said Sievers. “There will clean cut”. if I can trust it will not be hacked. arrive at the application. We can’t be no staff reductions in R&D be - However, some of the Freescale This is where the combination of say yet how we are doing this.” cause we are so complementary, product names will remain, a Freescale and NXP is so good.” but there will be some reductions good example being the Kinetis Radar chip NXP has established itself in the in customer-facing teams. We will family of MCUs. No product fam - security side of the payment in - One product the company can talk have two managers for each team, ilies will be cut and no factories dustry as well as in passports and about is the first release for auto - for example, and that has to go will close, Sievers promised. The driving licences. motive since the merger. This is down to one. We have a pool of only area where there was serious “The technology is very sophis - claimed to be the world’s smallest good people from which we can overlap was in a non-automotive ticated,” said Sievers, “and we are single-chip 77GHz radar trans - find the best team going forward.” RF range, and that business was very busy in applying the same ceiver (7.5 by 7.5mm) with very The company has centres in sold before the merger was com - excellence in data handling into high resolution. North America, Europe and the pleted. the car industry. That will be a Radar is a core technology in Far East and is in the process of One item that Sievers said the dual lock that will control all the existing and future adas as it pro - converging the offices. company definitely wanted to The future of the Freescale Cup is unclear interfaces the car will have. This vides precise data about the sur - The key location though, said keep was the Freescale Technol -
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How PSA Peugeot Citroën uses simulation to solve powertrain thermal management problems
The Citroën DSS Hybrid 4 achieves 88g/km CO 2 emissions
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ar manufacturers face mul - gies are taking more systems into usage under a variety of condi - five years are clean technologies, tiple challenges when de - account than ever before, includ - tions, and set temperature thresh - safety and onboard intelligence. signing powertrain ing the internal combustion en - olds to help protect powertrain In 1995, the car maker started architectures. They must reconcile gine, gearbox, car interior, electric components further. using LMS Imagine Lab Amesim numerous and sometimes contra - powertrain battery and electronic software, the mechatronic system C Broad appeal dictory requirements to reach the control units. simulation platform from Siemens desired level of product quality, Powertrain thermal management PSA Peugeot Citroën addresses PLM Software. Prior to the imple - pollutant emissions, passenger optimisation enables car manufac - powertrain thermal management mentation, it had been using a va - comfort, fun-to-drive perform - turers to reduce fuel consumption by using simulation throughout riety of tools for powertrain ance, reliability and safety. And – for example, via warm-up phase the powertrain component and subsystem modelling. That often they must do all this while striv - acceleration – and carbon dioxide system design process. Moreover, caused interoperability problems ing to be profitable, shorten the (CO 2) emissions, and therefore al - the simulation approach is applied when conducting global system product development cycle and lows the OEMs to meet stringent for validating supplier proposals analysis. That’s why a key factor reduce time to market. international standards. It also fa - as well as for powertrain control in PSA’s decision to adopt LMS Powertrain systems are becom - cilitates appropriate powertrain validation on hardware-in-the- Amesim was the tool’s broad set ing increasingly complex, and in - cooling and passenger thermal loop (HIL) test benches, and for of predefined and validated com - clude a growing number of comfort by controlling cooling control pre-calibration. ponent libraries, which are suit - actuators, sensors, hybrid traction fluid temperature and flow rate in With 32 manufacturing facili - able for multi-domain system systems, and electric and elec - the air heater. ties, six research and development modelling. tronic components, requiring con - In addition, effective powertrain centres and 211,100 employees The software covers the design trols and protection strategies to thermal management maintains an worldwide, PSA Peugeot Citroën phases from component sizing to limit component damage. Devel - optimal operating temperature for is committed to using technologi - full vehicle integration and valida - oping powertrain thermal manage - the engine and gearbox, promot - cal innovation to develop new, tion without any model compati - ment strategies is a major issue ing component reliability and fuel more environmentally and com - bility problems. For example, for original equipment manufac - efficiency. The thermal manage - munity-centred mobility systems. engineers in PSA’s powertrain ar - turers (OEMs), and these strate - ment system can adapt to vehicle Its three priority areas for the next chitecture design department are actively using it for coolant and oil circuit design. After that, to conduct complex powertrain thermal management PSA Peugeot Citroën 1.2-litre three-cylinder petrol engine analysis, completed models are plugged together. Then design en - gineers evaluate the impact of a flow between LMS Amesim and the effect of new technologies on design choice on the overall sys - Simulink was therefore a key powertrain component reliability. tem and compare the efficiency of point in its decision. The powertrain architecture different architectures. By using “Without LMS Amesim, it design department wanted to the software, in a matter of min - would have been much more diffi - account for different usage situa - utes they can choose between an cult to tackle current design chal - tions in its powertrain system electric and mechanical water lenges,” said Eric Le Dantec, robustness analysis. pump or continuous and con - powertrain modelling and simula - Design engineers built an engine trolled flow in water-oil heat ex - tion expert at PSA Peugeot thermal management model using changers of the engine and Citroën. “With a trial-and-error LMS Amesim, and conducted co- gearbox. approach, the time required for simulation with Simulink. This PSA is also using the software physical testing would’ve been enabled engineers to measure the for vehicle dynamics synthesis. too long.” evolution of oil and water temper - For controls integration work, en - atures as well as transient requests Protective strategies gineers often perform co-simula - of actuation components in differ - PSA has recently extended its ent driving conditions. LMS Amesim was used to build this thermal management powertrain system model tion using the Simulink environment. A simplified work - simulation approach to evaluating To assess damage, the reliabil -
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ity-based approach allowed pow - ducing the performance request ertrain design engineers to obtain above a certain threshold of com - component request histograms so ponent damage, or limiting the they could understand the con - duration of the most damaging straints that each component faces usage situations. The system sim - during its service life. This infor - ulation approach allowed the mation enabled PSA to size pow - powertrain architecture design de - ertrain components and provide partment to define these protec - suppliers with specifications to tion strategies and identify meet durability requirements for potential conflicts between them. the entire system. Collaboration Moreover, design engineers im - plemented protection strategies “Real expertise can only emerge that account for component dam - from teamwork,” said Le Dantec. age to safeguard the engine. These “That’s why it’s impossible to strategies allowed for either re - carry out the design process effec - Thanks to real-time traffic information, a connected electronic horizon function is possible; this can Eric Le Dantec: “Real warn drivers of traffic jams, construction sites or even black ice expertise can only emerge from teamwork.”
tively without cooperation among internal teams and suppliers. I Over the horizon think that the collaborative aspect will be at the heart of concern to A exploration of what is in the As early as 2012, the company improve the design process.” began operating an enhanced ecall To advance simulation robust - connected-car pipeline at Bosch service and a mobile information ness and foster continuity in proj - service on behalf of several car ects, PSA introduced strict he car of the future is con - “the number of services in partic - makers. The service provides ac - modelling process rules, espe - nected. It uses up-to-the- ular will rise considerably”. cident assistance and lends sup - cially for rigorously defining minute information from Thanks to its systems expertise port on other issues. And, finally, These graphs show the evolution of oil and water temperatures as component interfaces to allow for the internet to get vehicle occu - and product portfolio, Bosch is al - several fleet operators are already well as transient requests of actuation components when driving model compatibility. Tpants to their destination even ready in a position to tap that po - using a connected fleet manage - on the motorway (above) and in the city (below) “I don’t see any alternative to more safely, efficiently and con - tential. ment system that the company model-based system engineering veniently. This integration into the The technology company ad - launched in 2014. given the complexity of system internet of things also unlocks a dresses all levels of the IoT with Online design in the automotive indus - host of vehicle-related services. its sensors, software and a range try,” said Le Dantec. Existing studies on the IoT indi - of services. And this is true not To connect the car with the inter - As proof of this, since 2012, cate there is enormous market po - just of the mobility business, but net, there are two main ap - Siemens PLM Software and PSA tential in the mobility sector. of the company’s other business proaches. First is making full use have participated in the French re - “Connectivity is clearly revolu - sectors as well. of the driver’s smartphone. Using search project AGeSys (Atelier de tionising the way we drive,” said Late last year, it premiered a Bosch’s integrated Myspin, driv - Génie Système – integrated sys - Dirk Hoheisel, the Bosch board of cloud-based alert that warns driv - ers can link their Android and iOs tem engineering platform), which management member responsible ers within ten seconds if there is a devices to the vehicle’s infotain - aims to create an open platform for this area. “Bosch delivers the wrong-way driver approaching. ment system. Selected apps can supporting an architecture-driven, necessary hardware and software, The warning system, which is then be conveniently operated model-based system engineering and is developing a range of at - scheduled to go into production from the vehicle’s central display. approach for mechatronic systems tractive services.” this year, is a connected lifesaver This technology has been featured and embedded software. Hoheisel went on to say that in the true sense of the word. in Jaguar and Land Rover models
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Infrastructure collected from an injection nozzle future, their repairs will benefit A connected car drives more can be put through distributed al - from augmented reality, which proactively than any person. In - gorithms in the cloud and in the uses a tablet computer to provide formation on traffic jams, black vehicle to predict the part’s re - a sort of x-ray vision. ice and wrong-way drivers is maining service life. When a mechanic takes the available in the cloud. When com - The driver or fleet operator can tablet and holds it under the bon - bined with infrastructure data be notified immediately and an net, for example, the tablet’s cam - from parking garages and charge appointment made with the work - era image is overlaid with spots, this provides a broader per - shop in good time. In this way, it additional information and repair spective – the connected horizon. is often possible to avoid expen - instructions for precisely the area As Hoheisel put it: “In the con - sive repair and down times, espe - being displayed. The mechanic nected vehicle, the driver can see cially for large commercial can manipulate the overlaid ob - over the top of the next hill, vehicles. jects via the touchscreen and call around the next bend and be - Yet connectivity doesn’t stop at up additional information. This yond.” the entrance to the repair shop. makes pouring through service Dirk Hoheisel: “Connectivity Because future cars will warn Mechanics can use transmitted ve - handbooks a thing of the past. A is clearly revolutionising the drivers in plenty of time about hicle data to price spare parts and server provides all the detailed way we drive.” sudden fog or about a line of cars labour much more quickly. In the data online. stopped behind the next bend, driving will be safer. Connectivity also enhances vehicle efficiency. For example, precise data about Bosch is equipping the vehicle with connectivity hardware in the traffic jams and the road ahead form of a connectivity control unit, or CCU, which receives and make it possible to optimise transmits information using a wireless module equipped with a charging management in hybrid sim card and can determine the vehicle’s position using GPS and electric vehicles along the se - lected route. And because the car thinks ahead, the diesel particulate since 2014. Use of it in Asia is Bosch won a contract to optimise filter can be regenerated just be - spreading, driven by contracts the logistics processes of the fore the car exits the freeway, and with two other car makers in Swiss rail freight operator SBB not in the subsequent stop-and-go China plus an alliance with the Cargo. traffic. Chinese internet company Connected to the vehicle’s elec - Connectivity improves conven - Tencent. trical system via the on-board di - ience as well, as it is a prerequi - The second approach constitutes agnostics (OBD) interface, the site for automated driving. It is the equipping the vehicle with con - CCU is available both as original only way to provide unhurried nectivity hardware in the form of equipment and as a retrofit. This braking in advance of construc - a connectivity control unit, or makes it possible for fleet opera - tion zones, traffic jams and acci - CCU. The CCU receives and tors to retrofit their existing vehi - dent scenes. transmits information using a cles as well. Bosch subsidiary wireless module equipped with a Mobility Media also markets this Predictive diagnostics sim card. It can also determine the for private users under the name Along with driving data and infor - vehicle’s position using GPS if Drivelog Connect. A smartphone mation on the vehicle’s surround - desired. connected to the CCU can display ings, the connected car also There are devices specifically vehicle data, offer tips on fuel-ef - captures data on the operation of adapted to cars, commercial vehi - ficient driving and, in the event of individual components. Running cles, motorcycles, off-highway a breakdown, immediately contact these data through sophisticated vehicles and even railway freight a towing service and the garage if algorithms permits preventive di - Myspin is the Bosch smartphone integration system cars. Last year, for example, required. agnostics. For example, the data
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he 2016 Infiniti Q50 sports ride comfort, response and agility. saloon is being launched For drivers looking for dynamic with a number of perform - settings tailored to their own re - ance and dynamic upgrades that quirements and tastes, the drive Tare said to deliver a more empow - mode selector (DMS) can be aug - Joining the Q ering and rewarding drive experi - mented with a personal mode, ence. The updates include which permits a bespoke mix of next-generation ride and handling engine, suspension and steering Driver assistance systems from dynamic digital technologies and all-new characteristics. turbocharged V6 powertrains. Five powertrain options are of - suspension to direct adaptive steering are Making its debut on an Infiniti fered, and for the 2016 model is the company’s second-genera - these include an all-new 3.0-litre features of the Infiniti Q50 sports saloon tion direct adaptive steering. The V6 twin-turbo petrol engine with standard steering mode now pro - direct injection. vides levels of steering feel and “The new Infiniti Q50 takes the feedback that are more akin to core elements that have driven its that of a conventional steering global appeal to date, and now we system. are offering a number of new and The Q50 also uses the com - stand-out technologies,” said pany’s dynamic digital suspension Francois Bancon, Infiniti vice (DDS) for the first time, which president for product strategy. gives the sports saloon a blend of “With the upgraded Q50, we are furthering Infiniti’s position on in - novation.” Direct adaptive steering Models equipped with the 3.0-litre V6 twin-turbo engine or the hybrid powertrain come with the second-generation direct adaptive steering (DAS), which has under - gone re-tuning to enhance steering feel and feedback. The changes to DAS have been made following
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consultation with existing Q50 situations, such as city driving or cure and confident feeling at the customers around the world and parking, the system is tuned for wheel, free from unnecessary over a million kilometres of test - ease of manoeuvrability. To fur - steering kickbacks or vibrations. ing. ther enhance the steering feel in Drive mode selector For the second generation DAS, sporty driving conditions, the engineers have optimised the con - steering effort on the second gen - The expanded selection of steer - trol logic to improve feedback eration DAS gradually saturates ing modes within DAS is accessed from the road. They have fine- with high lateral G-force and ac - through the DMS. Located via tuned parameters so the default celeration in line with the overall menus displayed in the centre setting better mimics the feeling vehicle behaviour. console, DMS allows the steering drivers are used to from conven - DAS can transmit the driver’s response to be selected from six tional systems. input to the wheels faster than a available options: personal, stan - The system also provides more mechanical system while requir - dard, snow, eco, sport and sport customisation options, giving ing fewer steering corrections and plus. drivers flexibility to choose the is able to make 1000 steering ad - The personal steering mode al - level of steering assistance and justments per second. The system lows for a high degree of fine-tun - feedback according to personal enhances the steering feel by ing. Drivers first select one of preferences. In addition, DAS quickly and intelligently commu - three core modes – standard, sport actively adjusts the steering ratio nicating to the driver feedback and sport plus – and then specify and effort according to vehicle about road surface and chassis be - their preferred level of response – speed and scene. In slow-moving haviour. This gives the driver a se - default, dynamic and dynamic
Inside the Infiniti Q50
plus. For a slower steering re - a greater sense of connection and returning the steering wheel fol - sponse and conventional feel, the control when the car is being put lowing an input, traditional steer - driver would select a combination through its paces. ing systems can create an of standard mode and default re - The latest version of DAS works unnatural feeling through impre - sponse. For the highest level of with active lane control to main - cise control of the power assis - precision, the driver would choose tain lane positioning against tance, reducing the feeling of sport plus mode with dynamic crosswinds and uneven road sur - linearity. To counter this, Rack plus response – making best use faces. This semi-autonomous ca - precisely increases the steering ef - of DAS technology. pability is a precursor to future fort required as the vehicle’s yaw The sport mode enhances the re - steering systems that will form a rate changes, before adjusting to sponse of DAS elevating the key building block on the way to provide more assistance when the steering effort required while re - achieving fully autonomous driv - wheel returns towards on-centre. ducing the required steering ing. The 2.0-litre petrol and 2.2-litre movement from lock to lock. In As standard, Q50 models diesel models are equipped with a the new sport plus mode, steering equipped with the 3.0-litre V6 speed-sensitive hydraulic elec - effort remains the same as sport twin-turbo engine feature Infiniti’s tronic rack-and-pinion power mode, but the response of the Rack electronic power steering. steering system as standard. This steering is further increased, with This system provides a linear and increases assistance at low speeds an even quicker gear ratio for an in-control driving experience that and reduces assistance for en - enhanced feel. With both the sport can be tuned through the DMS. hanced feel and response at higher Infiniti’s plant in Sunderland, UK and sport plus modes, the result is When making a steering input or speeds.
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Dynamic digital suspension lated ride in all conditions, ensur - and turns. Sport mode allows the Olympic Snowboard X athlete Zoe Q50 Sport models with 3.0 twin ing that bumps and undulating driver to select a more aggressive turbo powertrain are upgraded road conditions are absorbed to shift pattern with automatic up- Gillings-Brier is using a Halo with DDS for the first time, which maintain flat body pressure. and down-shifting at higher rpm. provides enhanced ride comfort Valve timing control incorporat - The combined effect is for any dashcam as she begins her winter with response and agility. The ing an electric motor mounted to driver to enjoy quick, smooth season of training and shift from a comfort-biased ride to the valve timing system delivers shifts and gear choices that are ap - dynamic response can be made quicker reactions to driver inputs. propriate to both the road and the competing in Europe when the driver places the elec - As well as improved response, desired driving style. tronically adjustable shock ab - more immediate valve timing also Infiniti sorbers in either sport or sport helps the engine operate more ef - plus modes via the DMS, provid - ficiently, precisely controlling fuel The Infiniti Q50 will go on sale in ing firmer damping control for and air quantities entering the selected markets later in 2016. In - more agile handling. While in combustion chamber. finiti Motor is headquartered in these modes, the suspension is All Q50 powertrains are Hong Kong with sales operations constantly adjusting to provide matched to a seven-speed elec - in more than 50 countries. The In - ideal performance and a flat ride. tronically controlled automatic finiti brand was launched in 1989. In all modes, DDS also con - transmission with manual shift Its range of premium automobiles stantly adjusts the shock absorber mode and steering column- is built in manufacturing facilities valve within a wide range of mounted magnesium paddle in Japan, USA, UK and China. damping force to control body shifters. The company also plans to expand motion when cornering. It moni - Adaptive shift control enhances manufacturing into Mexico by tors body roll, pitch and bounce gear selection by using a lateral 2017. Infiniti design studios are in rate to restrain body motion for a acceleration sensor to detect Atsugi-Shi near Yokohama, Lon - comfortable, confident and insu - changes in the road, such as hills don, San Diego and Beijing.
said. “Not only does it record out WAY TO SNOW of the front and the rear of the car, it also records your route so you ritish Olympic Snowboard will be recorded.” can watch the footage and then X athlete Zoe Gillings- One camera sticks to the wind - see where that footage was cap - Brier is preparing for the screen in front of the rear-view tured in Google Maps.” 2018 Winter Olympics in South mirror and then a rear-facing cam - She also likes the parking pro - BKorea, but her hectic training era sticks on the rear window. The tection function that Halo has schedule will see her driving lead from the rear camera is then when it is hard-wired in to the through ten countries, covering trailed to the front camera and car’s battery. Cars left parked in 19,000km between resorts in a hidden behind the car’s interior ski resorts often get hit by people Mitsubishi ASX. panels. carrying skis and snowboards on “As a Mitsubishi brand ambas - The two cameras have a 150˚ their shoulders. And when parked sador and British Olympic athlete field of view and record footage cars are covered in snow, they are I drive a tremendous amount each on to an SD memory card. often completely hidden from year, both in the UK and in Eu - Gillings-Brier has watched some view and can get hit by other ve - rope,” she said. “This winter sea - of the footage from her drives so hicles. Halo still protects the vehi - son I am putting more miles in far this year – on icy, winding cle even when it is parked as it than I ever have before. roads up in the mountains – and starts recording if it senses any “With the Halo dashcam on she loves how the PC Halo Player movement in front of the camera board I feel much safer knowing software lets her see where she’s lenses or when the in-built G- that if I do have an accident while been in Google Maps. force sensor senses the car move Technologies combine to make a more pleasant driving experience in the Infiniti Q50 I’m driving or parked up, then it “The Halo is awesome,” she or take an impact.
Page 27 , January 2016 Vehicle Electronics Vehicle Electronics January 2016, Page 28 PRODUCTS PRODUCTS Third-generation Ethernet phy transceiver SoC complies with allows UTP use for automotive An Ethernet phy trans - robotics, building au - ceiver from Microchip tomation and avionics. ISO 26262 Asil B Capacitance enables unshielded This family provides twisted pair (UTP) cable support for the MII and Renesas Electronics has complex processing, such 16nm process. By opti - boost for use while meeting auto - RMII processor inter - unveiled the third-gener - as obstacle detection, mising the internal bus ar - same can size motive and industrial faces, for integration with ation R-Car, an automo - driver status recognition, chitecture of the SoC, and EMC requirements. numerous processors, tive computing platform hazard prediction and improving the bandwidth Aluminium electrolytic The KSZ8061 single- MCUs and SoCs. for driving safety support hazard avoidance. of the DDR memory, the capacitors from Pana - chip 10baseT and An evaluation board en - systems and in-vehicle in - It is built around Arm H3 has four times the sonic are claimed not 100baseTX automotive- ables functional and per - fotainment systems. The Cortex-A57 and A53 memory bandwidth of the only to save space, but and industrial-grade Eth - formance testing of the R-Car H3 SoC delivers cores, with a 64bit CPU H2. The modules include also increase reliability. ernet physical-layer trans - device, which is available CPU performance, image core architecture. Pro - serial flash memory re - The FKS series has an in - ceiver is for data is critical, such as auto - ture range of -40 to for sampling and comes recognition processing, cessing performance is quired for initial boot-up. crease in capacitance of communications over motive rear-view cam - +105˚C for harsh-envi - in 32-pin 5 by 5mm and ISO 26262 (Asil-B) com - 40,000DMips. It includes This means the design up to three times com - low-cost UTP cables. eras. The family is ronments, including in - 48-pin 6 by 6mm QFN pliance, and a system in the Power VR GX6650 as tasks from boot-up pared with the company’s It is the first of a family available with a tempera - dustrial sensor networks, packages. package (SiP) with exter - the 3D graphics engine through DDR memory FK series in the same can based on the patented and nal memory to enable a based on the latest archi - operation can be elimi - size. programmable Quiet- Workbench gains static analysis tool wide range of automotive tecture from Imagination nated and system manu - For example, the 25V Wire enhanced EMC applications. Technologies. facturers can reduce their 33µF FKS capacitor, technology, providing re - Version 9.30 of IAR Em - it is possible to identify for 8051 also includes ex - It provides cognitive The on-chip IMP-X5 design tasks and risks. which comes in a 4 by duced line emissions and bedded Workbench for errors such as memory ample projects and up - computing capabilities, parallel programmable It maintains software 5.8mm can size, uses 62 better receiver immunity 8051 integrates the C-Stat leaks, access violations, dated device support. In an enhanced computing engine provides image compatibility with other per cent of the space of performance. static analysis tool for arithmetic errors, and addition, a converter tool performance that can recognition technology in SoCs in the R-Car family. previous generation parts; System reliability is en - code quality control at an array and string overruns that enables porting of process large volumes of addition to the CPU and There is QNX software in fact the highest capaci - hanced with the com - early stage in the devel - at an early stage. This projects from the Keil information from vehicle GPU. The IMP-X5 is a support. tance achieved by FK se - pany’s Link MD+ cable opment cycle. This en - makes it possible for de - µVision environment to sensors accurately in real recognition engine opti - Samples are available ries in that size can is diagnostics in addition to hancement gives 8051 velopers to ensure code Embedded Workbench is time, and enables system mised for interoperation now. Mass production is 10µF. So, one of the new an embedded signal-qual - developers access to pow - quality and reduce the im - available. manufacturers to run ap - with the CPU. scheduled to begin in parts can replace three of ity indicator for the dy - erful static analysis com - pact of errors on the fin - The complete develop - plications that require The SoC is made with a March 2018. the FK devices. namic monitoring of link pletely integrated within ished product and on the ment toolchain for micro - There are initially 25 error margins. the daily development project timeline. controllers based on the part numbers being For energy-efficient ap - workflow. “With the static analysis 8051 core incorporates launched in the family, in plications, the integrated C-Stat includes static tool C-Stat, 8051 devel - user-friendly IDE tools, voltage classes between Ethergreen technology in - analysis that can detect opers get new possibili - the optimising IAR 6.3V and 50V and capac - cludes an ultra deep sleep defects, bugs and security ties for more efficient C/C++ compiler and the itances from 33µF to mode with signal-detect vulnerabilities as defined workflows as the tool en - C-Spy debugger. The 1800µF. Can sizes vary wakeup, which lowers by Cert C/C++ and CWE ables them to take full toolchain provides sup - from 4 by 5.8mm to 10 by standby power consump - common weakness enu - control of their code at an port for microcontrollers 10.2mm. tion to the sub-microam - meration, as well as help early stage in the devel - from vendors such as Target markets include pere range. keeping code compliant opment cycle,” said Atmel, Infineon, NXP, automotive, industrial au - With fast boot and to standards such as Thomas Sporrong, FAE Silicon Labs and Texas tomation, power manage - linkup in less than 20ms, Misra C: 2004 and 2012, manager at IAR Systems. Instruments. C-Stat is ment, audio and white the device is for applica - and Misra C++: 2008. The latest version of available as an add-on goods. tions where start-up time By using static analysis, Embedded Workbench product.
Page 29 , January 2016 Vehicle Electronics Vehicle Electronics January 2016, Page 30 PRODUCTS PRODUCTS UHF sensor checks Sensor looks for for water leakage for lateral magnetics A magnetic sensing de - resource. As sleep time is grated magnetic concen - Smartrac has teamed up be extended by using a The tag’s antenna trans - vice from Melexis can de - a programmable parame - trator technology, which with chip maker RF Mi - wicking tail, which forms environmental data termine the presence of ter, power consumption heightens signal-to-noise cron to develop Sensor guides moisture to the into an impedance ICs protect magnetic fields that are can be matched with spe - ratios in magnetic field Tadpole, a UHF sensor sensor tag. This allows change, and the tag IC motor drive lateral, not just orthogo - cific power budget needs. measurement. In addition, tag that is deployed on even minute amounts of translates this into a 5bit nal, as well as normal Target applications in - the capacity of this tech - To achieve Asil B com - cars during assembly, and water to be detected sensor code, as it dynam - applications switch and latch func - clude brake lights, steer - nology to sense laterally pliance, diagnostic and used to detect small quickly, easily and reli - ically matches antenna tions. The MLX92292 ing sensors and hand- allows lower profile im - monitoring functions amounts of water leakage ably, allowing manufac - impedance to die imped - Driver ICs for high-volt - latch-switch supports Asil brake mechanisms. plementations as the mag - have been incorporated, inside vehicle compart - turers to identify the ance. age, high-speed IGBTs B safety integrity level in The device can be spec - net can move alongside including sensor element ments that can damage a source of a leak. It is de - The first commercial and power mosfets can accordance with ISO ified with standard or - the device rather than diagnostics and internal car’s electronics bays, ployed in the manufactur - deployment of Sensor protect motor drive appli - 26262, with an array of thogonal sensitivity or the having to be above it. voltage references. The cabins and trunks. ing flow as part of the Tadpole is already being cations with space con - built-in diagnostic mech - lateral sensitivity option. Safeguarding the device device comprises a set of The sensor tag uses RF automobile’s assembly piloted. Project-managed straints such as electric anisms available. The upshot of lateral sen - are reverse supply volt - programmable reporting Micron’s Magnus S2 sen - process. by automation partner garden equipment, golf OEMs can choose sitivity is potential to re - age, thermal, ESD and features, making it com - sor IC with its patented The use of a passive Turck, a German OEM is carts, power tools and straightforward pre-pro - place multiple devices over-voltage protection, patible with any existing Chameleon technology, sensor means the tag re - testing the passive sensor mobility scooters. grammed units, or they with a single surface plus under-voltage lock - ECU interface. Only the which can be used to quires no power supply, tag in high-end cars to en - The Infineon IRS200x can benefit from the end- mount unit, thereby sav - out features. With the ca - normal application pins sense moisture or pres - servicing or replacing. sure they leave the fac - family consists of high- of-line (EoL) program - ing board space and low - pacity to deal with a 40V are required, dispensing sure. Sensing capabilities are tory watertight. side and low-side and half ming capacity. Through ering costs. load dump, it can be con - with the need for external The on-metal passive supplied without the need The new tag can be de - bridge drivers using high- this, each device may be This stems directly nected directly to the ve - diagnostic pins and thus sensor tag works on metal for batteries or an exter - livered pre-encoded. Fur - voltage junction isolation configured via its output from proprietary inte - hicle battery. simplifying the design. surfaces, with low signal nal power source, be - thermore, the unique TID, technology to realise pin during the OEM pro - degradation from sur - cause the IC harvests EPC and sensor code small packages while re - duction process, so sys - rounding structures. The UHF energy from a hand- offer the opportunity to maining tolerant to nega - tem optimisation is Test automation upgrade tag has a strong adhesive held reader or optionally manage and collate the tive transient voltages. realised. The program - and small, slim form fac - from a gate reader, which information received The 200V devices are ming facility also enables Version 6.4 of the Vector - tion improvements in - controlled on a per-test tor, which makes for easy scans vehicles as they from the sensor tag using tailored for low-voltage setting of both magnetic Cast test automation plat - clude out-of-the-box inte - case basis in VectorCast deployment on difficult pass through the final Smartrac’s Smart Cosmos (24, 36 and 48V) and operating points to small form from Vector gration with leading static Ada. surfaces. quality-check areas of the cloud-based services plat - mid-voltage (60, 80 and increments across a range Software for C/C++ and analysis tools. This has This allows testing to be The detection area can factory production line. form, which is of interest 100V) applications. They spanning -90 to +90mT. Ada development in - been reworked to provide performed on one indi - to manufacturers wishing enable high system level Housed in three-lead cludes features and en - a consistent set of con - vidual function in com - to track the performance efficiency and power den - tsot or TO92 packages, hancements in data trols, regardless of the plete isolation from its of components, or to im - sity while providing the with an operating voltage aggregation, reporting, static tool being used. dependent functions. prove quality manage - necessary robustness. from 3.3 to 18V, the de - usability and tool integra - The configuration, an - Change-based testing ment. The family consists of vice typically draws 7µA, tion. Function and func - notated listings and mes - functionality built into The tag is available in six devices with a typical making it suitable for bat - tion call coverage sage viewer provide the VectorCast Ada allows white wet singulated for - sink current of 600mA tery-powered operation. required for ISO 26262 same workflow for Vec - engineers to assess mat, and with a die-cut and source current of This is advantageous certification is available torCast Lint, PRQA quickly and easily the im - size of 21.5 by 73.0mm, 290mA. where the vehicle’s en - for each test case and in QA.C and QA.C++, and pact of a source code either as a standalone tag, They are compatible gine may not be turned aggregate across all Klocwork. change on not only their or with different tail op - with 3.3, 5 and 15V logic on, as it places no signifi - flavours of testing. 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Page 31 , January 2016 Vehicle Electronics Vehicle Electronics January 2016, Page 32 PRODUCTS PRODUCTS Power IC aids LED bypass switch enables safety function independent dimming A general-purpose system erating voltage range is An LED bypass switch power IC with multiple improved down to 2.7V enables independent dim - outputs and functional with battery operation. ming and diagnostics of safety circuits for auto - Functional safety analy - eight individual LEDs or motive applications has ses has been carried out to LED segments. The Lin - been introduced by simulate system failures ear Technology LT3965 Toshiba Electronics. and documentation, such works with an LED The TB9044FNG is as functional safety TVS protects driver circuit configured housed in an HTSSOP48- FMEDA, is available to as a current source. P-300-0.50 6.1 by 12.5 by support safety analysis It has eight individually 1.0mm package. and design. circuits in controlled floating 17V Failure detection func - The IC incorporates 330mΩ nmos switches. ming with 256:1 dim - LED matrix applications, An internal clock gener - tions include high-voltage four series power supply Using these internal ming ratios with or with - up to 16 devices can use a ator is provided and it and low-voltage detection output circuits receiving infotainment power switches and an in - out the 11bit resolution common I 2C bus. supports an external clock and overheat detection of the 6V input generated by tegrated I 2C serial inter - fade transition between The eight switches can source for PWM dim - power supply circuit to the DC-DC converter. It Transient voltage sup - technology. In addition, face, individual LEDs the dimming states. Each be connected in parallel ming. monitor against the IC’s also incorporates an out - pressor (TVS) arrays they provide unidirec - within the string can be switch can control and and/or in series to bypass Additionally, each own failure, and a watch - put circuit with a 5V con - from Protek Devices pro - tional configuration, a turned on or off, or they monitor a single LED or a current around one or channel has both open dog timer to monitor fail - stant voltage – current vide circuit protection in low forward voltage drop can be PWM dimmed to segment of up to 16V of more LEDs in a string. LED and shorted LED ure detection of the capacity is 400mA – for infotainment and other and high surge capability. offer unique patterns series-connected LEDs. When multiple devices fault reporting and pro - external MCU. the microcomputer, and automotive systems. The Peak pulse power per within the LED matrix. The 8 to 60V input are used, the I 2C serial in - tection. It is offered in a An initial diagnosis cir - three circuits with 5V Pam 8S devices provide a line is 6600W typical at Typical applications in - range can accommodate a terface enables communi - 28-lead tssop thermally cuit detects latent faults in constant voltage output – combination of surpass - 10/1000µs. They also clude automotive matrix wide range of LED driv - cations between the enhanced package. the failure detection cir - current capacity is ing ISO 16750-2:2010 meet requirements for the LED headlights. ers commonly used in au - master microcontroller Operating junction tem - cuits to secure higher 100mA – for sensors and (E) load dump testing ISO 7637-2 surge specifi - The I 2C serial interface tomotive and industrial and one or more devices perature range is -40 to functional safety. other interfaces. Each can while delivering a clamp - cation varied by test con - enables digital program - applications. For larger configured as slaves. +125˚C. The IC generates a 6V output a voltage inde - ing voltage at 48.4V. dition and for MSL level output from a buck-boost pendently. There are 15 high- one LF per J-STD-020 Editor and Publisher: © 2016 Vehicle Electronics DC-DC converter. To Sample shipments have power TVS arrays in the with a maximum peak of Steve Rogerson ISSN 2055-1177 avoid problems following started, with mass pro - series covering a range of +245˚C. They are RoHS [email protected] a voltage drop during duction scheduled for reverse stand-off voltages and Reach compliant. Vehicle Electronics is available to readers world - cranking, the low side op - October 2017. from 14 to 43V. The components come Advertising Manager: wide. It will be published approximately twelve Diane Trotman Primary applications in - in a DO-218AB package times a year in a digital-only format. All rights [email protected] clude digital audio tuners, at an approximate weight reserved. 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