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To validate complex vehicle control systems the mechanical components must be put to the test, which can be a
time-consuming and expensive process.
As automotive manufacturers look for more efficient solutions, there is a growing trend towards utilizing mechatronic test benches.
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"Automotive manufacturers must deliver an ever-growing array of options and variants in their vehicle product line
offerings.
If an automotive company sold a fleet of 30 million vehicles last year, this equates to hundreds of thousands of different vehicle configurations.
With the Internet of Things (IoT), there must now be a digital twin for all of these configurations, representing each of the vehicles in the field," explains Dr.
Charles Kruger, CEO of product line engineering firm BigLever Software.
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Body electronics systems embrace a wide variety of applications, addressing everything from driver and passenger comfort
and security to high-performance computing and in-vehicle networking.
Even with such a broad range of offerings, customers still expect reasonably priced electronic components with the highest levels of both quality and reliability.
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A look at the future vehicle through the eyes of SAE International.
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Blogs & Columns
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In a traditional architecture, multiple radio tuner front ends are connected to the head unit via analog cables, which are
inherently susceptible to noise and heat dissipation while transporting signals from antenna to head unit.
Additionally, each tuner requires its own baseband hardware.
What Maxim brings to the table is a remote tuner solution that is positioned near the antenna to free up space in the head unit..
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As more communications functions are added to cars and more functions become automated, digital signal processing (DSP) is
finding uses far beyond traditional audio.
These new applications help make cars more comfortable, more reliable, and safer.
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Now that Europe has mandated the eCall systems for all new cars by 2018, expect silicon solutions that further push the
vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) agenda later this year.
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Executive Outlook
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Though certain domains of the modern vehicle are offloading subsystem functions to fewer, large domain controllers, the
body electronics domain remains a heterogeneous mix of control area networks (CAN), local interconnect networks (LIN), and now even Ethernet.
As automakers begin to reclaim vehicle architecture definition from Tier 1 suppliers, they are taking different approaches to the design and architecture of body electronics subsystems, which Arun Vemuri, Sector General Manager for Automotive Body Electronics and Lighting and Mike Claassen, Sector General Manager for Automotive Infotainment, both of Texas Instruments, explain in this
interview.
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Marketplace
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At embedded world 2017 in Nuremberg, Germany, PEAK-System Technik will release what the company claims is the first CAN FD
interface available in an M.2 form factor, the PCAN-M.2.
The PCAN-M.2 will be available in single, dual, and quad-channel versions.
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The diodes provide a 7000 W or 2200 W peak pulse power dissipation rating in a surface mount SMTO-263 package and meets ISO
7637-2 5A/5B protection and ISO 16750 load dump tests.
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Safety, availability, and cost considerations can make performing thorough tests of embedded control devices using the
complete system impractical.
Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation is a real-time test technique used to test these devices more efficiently.
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MIPI DisCo base specification defines a uniform software architecture that can be used with a device’s host operating
system to discover, enumerate, and manage controllers, buses, and other components that use MIPI Alliance specifications.
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