OEMs are experiencing increasing application complexity and the need for AUTOSAR, ISO 26262 functional safety-compliant and secure solutions as the market for electric and autonomous vehicles grow. For automotive developers looking to design scalable applications for future technology while also meeting the latest automotive requirements, Microchip Technology Inc. announces a comprehensive ecosystem around AUTOSAR-ready dsPIC33C Digital Signal […]
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Automotive ethernet switch features lockstep dual-core reliability
Marvell introduced its third generation Marvell Brightlane Ethernet Switch, the industry’s most advanced automotive securely managed switch, and the first with lockstep dual-core Arm processing redundancy to enable high reliability for mission-critical applications that support vehicle safety and performance. As the leading digital framework for next-generation Ethernet-based zonal architectures, the new automotive switch also includes […]
FPGAs deliver more, memory, logic, and security
Lattice Semiconductor extended its long-standing leadership in control of FPGAs with the introduction of the Lattice MachXO5-NX family, the fifth device built on the award-winning Lattice Nexus platform. MachXO5-NX FPGAs enable the latest generation of secure control through increased logic and memory resources, robust 3.3 V I/O support, and a differentiated security feature set. Designed […]
CAN IP optimized for FPGA apps
Arasan announces the immediate availability of its 2’nd generation of CAN IP for the CAN 2.0 and CAN FD Specifications. The controllers have been rearchitected and upgraded to lower power consumption and area, which make them suitable for FPGA applications in addition to Arasan’s primary ASIC IP market. Although automobiles do not have stringent power requirements like […]
RISC-V multiprocessor IP cores boast high scalability
MIPS announces its entrance to the RISC-V market, previewing the first products in its eVocore product lineup. The new eVocore P8700 and I8500 multiprocessor IP cores are the first MIPS products based on the RISC-V open instruction set architecture (ISA) standard. The new eVocore multiprocessor IP cores are the first MIPS products based on the […]
Automotive lidar sensor employs beam steering
LeddarTech is pleased to announce the official release of LeddarSteer, a digital beam steering solution designed for LiDAR smart sensor developers and Tier 1-2 automotive suppliers. Digital beam steering refers to changing the direction of laser pulses in a LiDAR. Using a stack of alternating liquid crystal cells and polarization gratings enables steering light at […]
GNSS antennas feature near-band filtering
Tallysman Wireless is announcing that it has added eXtended Filtering (XF) to the housed and embedded lightweight HC977XF (triple-band + L-Band), HC882XF (dual band + L-Band), and HC872XF (dual-band (GPS and GLONASS) + L-Band) precision helical GNSS antennas. Tallysman has designed the XF feature to mitigate interference from all near-band signals and ensure that the […]
MCUs designed for sensing, multi-voltage analog applications
With smartphones, autonomous vehicles, and 5G wireless connectivity dominating the landscape of embedded design in 2022, Microchip’s 8-bit PIC and AVR microcontroller (MCU) families are gaining market share. Over the past 50 years, the market for 8-bit MCUs has grown steadily and Microchip currently sells one device for every human in the western hemisphere each […]
Virtualization platform targets automotive ECU apps
Renesas Electronics Corporation announced an integrated automotive ECU Virtualization Platform that enables designers to integrate multiple applications into a single ECU (Electronic Control Unit) that are safely and securely separated from each other to avoid interference. The solution enables customers to adopt new electrical-electronic (E/E) architectures using MCU-based zone ECUs supporting multiple logical ECUs on […]
Dual-band helical antennas for GPS/GNSS incorporate out-band filtering
Tallysman Wireless announces that it has added the housed HC885XF and embedded HC885EXF dual-band (GPS/QZSS L1/L5, GLONASS G1/G3, Galileo E1/ E5a/b, BeiDou B1/B2/B2a + L-Band corrections services) eXtended Filtering (XF) antennas to its industry-leading line of helical antennas. Historically, dual-frequency antennas and receivers commonly supported GPS L1 and L2 and GLONASS G1 and G2. In […]