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Continental joins OPEN Alliance Ethernet consortium January 31, 2012
Automotive supplier Continental AG is a new member of the OPEN Alliance SIG (One Pair Ether-Net Alliance Special Interest Group). The group is dedicated to spreading the use of Ethernet networks as the standard solution for in-vehicle applications. Continental's move is not much of a surprise: The company ...
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Mentor Graphics, Mecel offer Autosar 4.x software design solution
January 27, 2012
With Autosar 4.x being in the design pipeline for a production start in 2014 to 2016, the automotive value chain increasingly demands development platforms. In order to meet this demand, Electronic Design Automation software vendor Mentor Graphics and Delphi subsidiary Mecel AB have joined their forces ...
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SARTRE consortium tests automotive "platooning"
January 24, 2012
The seven partners of the SARTRE project (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) have for the first time tested their technological approach outside the simulators, on real roads. The project uses car-to-car communication to form groups ("platoons") of vehicles in which the driver in a lead vehicle drives ...
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Infineon re-enters ARM market with motor control families
January 23, 2012
Infineon Technologies has re-entered the market as an ARM licensee after the sale of its wireless division to Intel, this time with a focus on several families of motor controllers using the Cortex M4 core.
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SyEnA project makes safety systems affordable
January 23, 2012
Intelligent affordable safety systems are an important design goal for many automotive OEMs. In such systems, intelligent sensor systems play a paramount role. The SyEnA project aims at the analog and mixed signal semiconductor design workflow, significantly increasing the degree of automation in this ...
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BASF, Philips claim breakthrough in OLED lighting - for car roofs
January 19, 2012
BASF and Philips claim they have announced a breakthrough in material research aiming at the development of transparent OLEDs. The companies regard sun roofs for cars as a possible application market.
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Renesas integrates resolver sensor interface to MCU
January 18, 2012
Renesas Electronics has developed a new 32-bit microcontroller (MCU), the V850E2/PJ4-E, which incorporates an on-chip resolver sensor interface. The new MCU realizes both higher performance and lower system cost for automotive control systems including motor control for HEV/EV and other automotive applications. ...
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Kivic ONE brings AirPlay to cars
January 16, 2012
With the recent surge of smart devices, demand to play one’s media anywhere and everywhere is also on the rise. This demand has spawned companies like Kivic, which was showing off its range of wireless and AirPlay compatible products at CES in Las Vegas last week.
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Audi, Daimler infotainment systems take center stage at CES
January 12, 2012
Cars are increasingly changing their character - from a motorized vehicle with a few electronic components to a giant mobile universal device with a set of wheels. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, vehicle manufacturers Audi and Daimler have confirmed this mutation process by highlighting ...
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Advantest utilizes terahertz technology to test diesel emissions
January 11, 2012
Advantest Corporation, a company known for its semiconductor test systems, has entered a new business segment: It announced the launch of a solutions business for diesel emission after-treatment analysis systems. The service relies on the Advantest's proprietary technology used in its TAS7000 terahertz ...
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