Automotive & Transport


High-performance automotive chips adopted by Nissan for its new LEAF

Renesas Electronics has announced that its R-Car SoC for car infotainment and ADAS as well as its RH850 automotive control MCU have been adopted by Nissan for the ProPILOT Park, a full-fledged automated-parking system, of its new LEAF, Niss

Renesas | 15-09-2017

Driving safe with reliable automotive power electronics

RS Components offer a large portfolio of products from Infineon to meet a range of automotive applications. Industrial and automotive engineers are smart to remove fuses, and relays, using low side HITFET and high Side PROFET intelligen

RS Components | 05-09-2017

Shunt-based management system offers precision current measurement in battery management

The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (IISB), Erlangen, is using Isabellenhütte’s shunt-based management system IVT-S for precision current measurement in battery management systems in its foxBMS development

Isabellenhutte | 29-08-2017

Sensor detects vehicles to the rear and side of the exterior body

DENSO Corporation has developed a 24GHz submillimeter-wave rear and side radar sensor to help enhance vehicle safety systems. The sensor is used in the 2018 Toyota Camry. It is strategically built into the rear bumper of the vehicle to

DENSO | 14-08-2017

Radio solution solves automotive industry challenge of scaling price and performance

Silicon Labs has introduced what is claimed to be the industry’s most scalable, flexible and cost-effective car radio solution for the global automotive infotainment market. Their new portfolio of Global Eagle and Dual Eagle AM/FM receivers

Silicon Labs | 14-08-2017

Microchip – Major car manufacturers implement MOST50 technology for in-vehicle infotainment systems

Microchip has delivered its 50 millionth Media Oriented System Transport (MOST) technology 50Mbps INIC. Their technology, which includes an ePHY that is optimized for use with UTP copper wire, has been implemented in multiple vehicle platfo

Microchip Technology | 27-07-2017

Voltage detectors for in-vehicle use achieve high accuracy and low quiescent current

Torex Semiconductor has enhanced the XD6121/XD6122/XD6123/XD6124 series of voltage detectors for in-vehicle applications. Featuring a watchdog function based on a CMOS process, these detectors achieve high accuracy and a low quiescent curre

Torex Semiconductor | 26-07-2017

In-vehicle infotainment technology provides high quality digital multichannel audio streaming

Media Oriented System Transport (MOST) technology, developed by Microchip Technology will network the in-vehicle infotainment system of Volvo Cars’ second-generation XC60 SUV. The XC60 will be the fourth Volvo model to implement the technol

Microchip Technology | 19-07-2017

Highly integrated automotive video camera instantly displays rearview live video

Intersil has announced the TW8844 LCD video processor that interfaces with the latest generation of automotive SoCs. The highly integrated device is claimed to be the first HD 1080p LCD video processor with analog video decoder, two scalers

Intersil | 12-07-2017

Automotive sound plus high-performance from new audio op amps

The Texas Instruments OPA1641-Q1 (single) and OPA1642-Q1 (dual) series are JFET-input, ultra-low distortion, low-noise op amps fully specified for audio applications. The rail-to-rail output swing allows increased headroom, making these

Texas Instruments | 07-07-2017

New high voltage, ultra low-profile automotive connectors offer 30% space saving

Available now through TTI Europe, JST Automotive wiring harnesses and wire-to-board connection systems are very widely used by every automotive OEM globally. To meet the demands of today’s automotive manufacturers for ultra-reliable, high p

TTI Europe | 07-07-2017

Dual high-current buck converter meets power management needs in automotive applications

Texas Instruments’ LP87332B-Q1 has been designed to meet the power management requirements in automotive applications. This device contains two step-down DC-DC converters and two linear regulators and general-purpose digital-output signals.

Texas Instruments | 06-07-2017

MCU portfolio extended for secure, high-speed automotive networking instrument clusters and body applications

New devices for sampling in its Traveo automotive MCU family has been announced by Cypress Semiconductor, providing secure, high-speed networking for classic instrument cluster applications. These new MCUs support the CAN FD standard for hi

Cypress | 03-07-2017

New CAN family supports the new FD and PN standards

Now available from Microchip and claimed to be the industry’s first family of CAN transceivers that includes various automotive Grade 0 qualified parts is the ATA65XX family that adds six new devices to their CAN portfolio. The new fami

Microchip Technology | 29-06-2017