Automotive Electronics

Nexperia is aiming at protecting USB 3.2, HDMI 2.0 and LVDS data lines in vehicles with family of ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection diodes. “Additionally, this portfolio also aims to address the upcoming high-speed video-links as well as the Open Alliance multi-Gbit Ethernet applications”, according to the company. All variants come in 1 x 0.6 x 0.5mm leadless packages to improve ...

With bidirectional charging, solar power from a photovoltaic system can be stored in electric cars and fed back into the home grid when needed. Infineon and Delta have developed a three-in-one-system that integrates solar, energy storage and charging of electric vehicles. Thanks to bidirectional inverters, the electric car is not only charged, but can also be used as a buffer ...

ST and VW’s software unit Cariad are joining up to co-design automotive chips and are “moving to agree” that TSMC will fab them “We are actively shaping our entire semiconductor supply chain,” says VW’s Murat Aksel, “we’re ensuring the production of the exact chips we need for our cars and securing the supply of critical microchips for years to come.” ...

The market for automotive SiC power components is forecast to reach $1.07 billion in 2022 and will climb to $3.94 billion by 2026, says TrendForce, in a total SiC device market estimated by Yole Developpement to be worth $6.3 billion in 2027. The leading suppliers are: ST ON Wolfspeed, Infineon China is operating an entire SiC industry supply chain. Car ...

With global demand for EVs growing at pace, the race is on for battery innovators to avert a supply crisis due to shortages of various elements found in the earth’s crust, such as nickel, cobalt and lithium, writes Ben Palmer, a partner and patent attorney at Withers & Rogers. Diminished availability of these much-needed raw materials, combined with growing concern ...

MicroSys Electronics announced a module built around NXP’s S32G3 vehicle network processor at Embedded World 2022. Intended for real-time mixed-critical safety applications, “thanks to the NXP S32G3 processor, the MPX-S32G399A system-on-module surpasses its NXP S32G2-based predecessor with 2.5 times more application processing performance,” according to MicroSys. Improvements include eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores instead of four, as well as four Cortex-M7 ...

NXP has introduced real-time microcontrollers for automotive ECUs, certified to ISO/SAE 21434 for cybersecurity and ISO 26262 ASIL D for functional safety. Part of its S32 range, they are: S32Z for safety processing and domain/zonal control S32Z1 series (future) 4x Cortex-R52 S32Z2 series 8x Cortex-R52 S32E for electric vehicle control and actuation S32E2 series 8x Cortex-R52 E parts are essentially Z parts with a ...

STMicroelectronics is promoting key-less car access with a design that supports the CCC (Car Connectivity Consortium) Digital Key 3.0 standard, developed with Giesecke+Devrient (G+D). The product, called STSAFE-VJ100-CCC, is a pre-programmed secured microcontroller from the company’s ST33KxxxA family – also described simply as a ‘secure element’ – which has an Arm Cortex-M35P core that comes with additional security features to help protect ...

Toshiba and Japan Semiconductor have developed an analogue process with embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) for automotive applications. The 0.13-micron process   applied to analogue ICs is claimed to offer an optimized combination of processes and devices, according to rated voltage, performance, reliability and cost, for automotive analogue circuits and eNVM on a single chip. Analogue ICs, including motor driver ICs, ...

Digitisation, connectivity and automation are major trends in the automotive industry, writes Gerard Vink of Tasking, requiring management of compiler-induced cyber security vulnerabilities. In 2020 the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe released the regulation on uniform provisions concerning the approval of vehicles with regards to cybersecurity and cybersecurity management system, also known as WP.29. In the EU, Japan, Korea ...