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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....

The V6 PLM: Dassault’s Systems-Engineering Assault On Vehicle Design
By Randy Frank, Contributing Editor, r.frank@ieee.org
As Moore’s Law continues to perpetuate, so too does the complexity of vehicular electronics systems...

Automotive Power Requirements Span From “A Little” To “A Lot”
By Randy Frank, Contributing Editor, r.frank@ieee.org
Leakage currents in key-off mode to high-voltage control for hybrid and electric vehicles spawn a number of new or enhanced power technologies. ...

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...

Weighing The Tradeoffs Between Automotive Digital Clusters And Memory Architectures
By Ken Perdue, Spansion
Safety measures move to minimize driver distraction, creating a flurry of innovations with the world of automotive electronics...

Wireless Advances Enrich The Vehicle-Connectivity Experience
By Randy Frank, Contributing Editor, r.frank@ieee.org
From safety measures to game playing, the automotive industry continues to incorporate and search for new methods and systems to satiate the consumer’s voracious telematics appetite...

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...

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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? ...

Automotive Vision Systems Mix It Up With SIMD-MIMD Processor Architectures
By Jens Eltze, NEC Electronics America
In today’s automobiles, manufacturers competitively blend performance and custom features with cutting-edge safety technology. ...

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. ...

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Fisker Karma Test Drive -- The $100,000 Hybrid
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Autonomous driving incorporates vehicle-to-vehicle communications
Auto Electronics’ Mark David gets a walk-through of SWI’s autonomous-capable Ford Explorer, displayed at ITS....

ITS World Congress puts driverless cars on the streets of New York
Mark David, talks with Patrick McGowan, chairman of technical demonstrations, about the live demonstration area for autonomous cars and active safety systems at 2008 ITS World Congress....

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