Automakers must get personal
By: by Andrew Poliak QNX Software Systems
In the 1960s, the LSD guru Timothy Leary advised everyone to turn on, tune in, drop out. Well, it's now 2007 and, instead of psychedelic drugs, most consumers...
Software Tools Tackle Complex Designs
By: by Randy Frank, contributing editor
Tool suppliers have risen to the challenge posed by vehicle makers and auto elecronics suppliers to help reduce system problems, reduce system cost, and reduce time to market. In general, this means greater involvement with tools earlier in the design process. The answers are similar in some cases and quite different in others but in either case, provides options for users....
Driving Next-Generation Digital Head Units for Automotive Applications
By: by Brian Fortman Texas Instruments
By sharing both internal and external memory resources, this article shows that
a system-on-chip dual-core MCU+DSP architecture reduces chip count, system cost and messaging complexity in a multimedia system....
New Features, Lower Costs for Automotive Multimedia
By: by John H. Day Contributing Editor
Faced with rapidly falling prices and the need for integrated solutions, suppliers of automotive multimedia products and services are forming partnerships...
Portable Entertainment and Information in the Car
By: by Jack Morgan North America, Philips Semiconductors
In the last 10 years, the consumer electronics industry has revolutionized the way consumers experience and enjoy entertainment in their homes. A similar...
Meeting the Challenge of Increasing Complexity in Electronics
By: by Bill Mattingly Chrysler Group
The world of product development is becoming increasingly integrated. Our goal is to manage the increasing complexity in the design of Chrysler Group...
Automotive Electronics Spurs Semiconductor Growth
By: by Ashok Bindra Editorial Director, RF Design
Because there is pressure to implement emerging advanced automotive safety, engine, infotainment, chassis control, and wireless technologies, analysts predict this decade will witness an unprecedented growth in automobile electronics content....
Emerging Vehicle Technologies and Services
By: by K. Venkatesh Prasad Ford Motor Company
Emerging technologies and associated services to enhance the productivity and entertainment attributes of the automobile experience are at various phases...
Auto Electronics Means More than Silicon
By: By David Morrison, Editor, Power Electronics Technology
Much has been written about the ongoing rise in the electronic content of automobiles. ...
Electronics Charts Auto's Future Course
By: by Ashok Bindra Editorial Director, RF Design
While electronics has been on the automotive scene ever since the introduction of semiconductor transistors in the 1950s, only in the last few years has...
