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Body Electronics

Lighting

Driver ICs Light the Way For LED Headlights
by Keith Szolusha, Linear Technology
chips capable of implementing boost or sepIc converters are tailored to the headlamp application, integrating features that enable high brightness LeDs to be more readily applied in place of traditional fi lament style and HID bulbs...

Electronic control units (ECUs)

Software Tools: Automakers Continue to Push Suppliers for More
By Randy Frank Contributing Editor
Coordinating the increasing network of software and hardware modules in today's vehicles requires forming a system model to account for all the interfaces...

Data Buses

SerDes Test Strategies to Minimize EMI/EMC
Tanja Hofner, Maxim Integrated Products Inc.
In automotive applications, testing for electromagnetic interference (EMI) and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is an important part of design verification for serializer/deserializer (SerDes) devices. EMI and EMC must be considered early in the design cycle to prevent needless revisions. This article offers basic concepts and guidelines on preparing a SerDes system for EMI/EMC testing....

Motion Control

Mechatronic Test Making Those Difficult Power Driver Measurements
by Alan J. Lesko Agilent Technologies
Mechatronics is the combination of mechanical, electrical, and software technologies to achieve the performance goals of the system. This combination of technologies forms an ideal synergy, with each contributing key elements to the overall goal of greater performance. The mechanical hardware provides the heavy lifting: force, torque, and mechanical displacement. The software provides the intelligence...

HVAC Control

Instrumentation

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? ...



May 1, 2009


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