Automotive

Engineered to protect automotive antennas from ESD, a single-line TVS (Transient Voltage Suppression) device has been released by Semtech. The RClamp2431TQ, part of Semtech’s AEC-Q100 protection platform, offers a unique combination of low-clamping ESD protection with an ultra-low capacitance rating, making it suited for safeguarding car antennas against the harsh electrical transient threats present in vehicles.

Vecow launches the 'first' fanless embedded system with 6th Gen Intel Xeon processor in the market, IVH-9000 series rugged vehicle computing system. The system features smart manageability, excellent mobile availability, 6 to 78V power input with 200V surge protection, ignition power control, intelligent circus protection and rugged reliability in harsh environments.

Designed for automotive computing SoCs used in autonomous vehicles of the future, Renesas has announced the development of a video processing circuit block. The circuit block handles processing of vehicle camera video with 70ms latency, processing video in real time on large volumes of data with 197mW power consumption and without imposing any additional load on the CPU and GPU, which are responsible for autonomous vehicle control.

In order to maintain general safety of passengers, the requirements on cables in rail vehicles have always been very high. The European Standard DIN EN 45545-2 goes on to increase the requirements regarding fire protection in rail vehicles. Besides being halogen free all used cables have to be flame retardant and self - extinguishing and are not allowed to contribute to fire propagation.

An award-winning Hampshire manufacturer has scooped a five-figure order for innovative ‘smart’ technology to improve Britain’s railways. Barnbrook Systems, which is based in Fareham, is supplying its cutting-edge BlueCube wireless sensors for remote condition monitoring of onboard systems.

Microsemi Corporation has announced qualification of its AEC-Q100 grade 1 automotive-grade FPGAs. In addition to outlining the criterion for electronic components to ensure that end systems meet automotive reliability levels, the grade 1 industry standard specification validates Microsemi’s IGLOO2 FPGAs as offering the highest junction temperature in its class―up to an impressive 125º ambient (135ºC junction).

  Stackpole Electronics has announced that its CSSH2512 3W current sense chip has now been qualified to AEC-Q200. The CSSH2512 offers resistance values from 0.5 up to 10mΩ in tolerances as tight as 0.5% and TCR as low as 25ppm.

Measuring only 1.95x1.5x0.95mm, Vishay Intertechnology has released two bidirectional single-line ESD protection diodes in the compact SOD-323 package. The space-saving VLIN1626-02G and VLIN2626-02G offer low capacitance and leakage current for the protection of automotive data lines against transient voltage signals.

Toshiba Electronics Europe announces a range of 15nm eMMC (embedded MultiMediaCard) NAND Flash memory for automotive infotainment and industrial applications. Available in an 11.5x13mm package that is fully compliant with the latest JEDEC eMMC standard, Toshiba’s 15nm eMMC chips are among the world's smallest.

TT Electronics has launched a range of SMT power inductors for high frequency and high temperature applications. The HA65A series inductors are designed to meet the requirements of the growing automotive market's need for certified, high power inductors specifically for buck, boost or buck-boost power converter topologies for optimum voltage regulation at fast switching frequencies.