Navigating with more than just GPS
John Fischer, CTO, Spectracom The resurgence of the automotive industry has come with strong buyer interest in technology to improve safety, convenience and awareness in the automobile. GPS is one such technology that has strong consumer demand....
AUTOSAR Methodology Breaks Down Complex Auto System Design
Mark Lefebvre, IBM Rational Thanks to standardized interfaces, this software infrastructure works within all vehicle domains, thus boosting efficiency and minimizing failures....
My Computer Seats Six… And Gets 30 Miles To The Gallon
By Morten Grauballe and Yoram Berholtz, Red Bend Software Mobile software management and mobile-virtualization technology pave the way for manufacturers to move from the connected car to the managed car....
MOST Stretches Beyond The Infotainment Boundary
By Harald Schoepp, SMSC Maturation through updates and modifications could turn MOST150 into the standard of choice for safety-critical applications...
Big Changes Loom In The Automotive Industry By Randy Frank, Contributing Editor, r.frank@ieee.org Carmakers are intent on transforming the role of software, customers’ perceptions, and the automotive environment as a whole...
Sensor Improvements Increase Safety and System Performance
By Randy Frank, contributing editor, r.frank@ieee.org The first step towards a great control system – great sensors. From multi-axis micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) to vision and radar sensors, and from exotic to well-established or mature technologies, sensors initiate the control system process....
Comparing In-house and Commercial Load Solutions for Automotive Test
Yeap Hock-Yew,
Agilent Technologies The functional testing of automotive electronic control modules (ECMs) presents many challenges, mainly due to the physical loads connected to ECMs: solenoids, motors, spark plugs, electromechanical transducers and so on...
Avoiding EMC Problems in Automotive Systems
By Randy Frank, contributing editor While electromagnetic compatibility is frequently regarded as a importantly issue for any electronic system, its potential to disrupt critical automotive systems has lead to numerous industry specifications and standards to avoid problems. This article explores EMC/EMI issues, provides a few solutions to common problems, a systems approach to dealing with EMC and identifies several specifications...
Avoiding EMC Problems in Automotive Systems
By Randy Frank, contributing editor While electromagnetic compatibility is frequently regarded as a importantly issue for any electronic system, its potential to disrupt critical automotive systems has lead to numerous industry specifications and standards to avoid problems. This article explores EMC/EMI issues, provides a few solutions to common problems, a systems approach to dealing with EMC and identifies several specifications...
Design Challenges for Digital Instrument Clusters
By Andy Gryc, QNX Software Systems Digital instrument clusters are poised to supersede analog clusters in next-generation vehicles. This may seem surprising at first, since digital clusters require higher-end CPUs and much more software than their analog counterparts, not to mention large LCD panels. Why, then, are automakers adopting them? ...
Altia HMI tools used for Range Rover information cluster HMI development and code generation tools from Altia Inc. were used to develop display screens for the virtual instrument cluster in Land Rover’s 2010 Range Rover. ...
Fisker Karma Test Drive -- The $100,000 Hybrid Dan Neil test drives the Fisker Karma, a plug-in electric hybrid with a price tag of over $100,000. He says, "This is possibly the world's most interesting car."...
