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Automotive leading the way in the adoption of digital technology
By 2025, it is estimated that a quarter of all cars worldwide will be electrically powered. Manufacturers are currently responding to increasing demands for next-gen technologies, including autonomous and connected vehicles, as well as developing completely new data-generated business models.
Narrow bandpass filters suitable for demanding LiDAR
In response to increasing demand for flat-top narrow bands for laser applications, Laser Components has announced an additionto its range of optical filters. The series of 4-cavity Fabry-Perot narrowband filters is suitable for demanding LiDAR, range-finding and free space optical communications applications. The filter coatings are fabricated from hard oxide materials so as to minimise wavelength shift due to temperature and angle of incidence v...
Daimler chooses Xilinx to pursue AI applications
In March this year Xilinx CEO Victor Peng revealed a new strategy for the company which embraced accelerating growth in core markets including automotive. Today (June 26) that vision received a significant boost with the announcement that Xilinx and Daimler-Benz are collaborating on an in-car system using Xilinx technology for artificial intelligence (AI) processing in automotive applications.
Advances in enabling tech to reset automotive industry by 2023
The global automobile industry, currently worth $3.5 trillion in annual revenues, could face four concurrent disruptive threats, according to GlobalData. These four include: the connected car, autonomous driving technology, electric vehicle technology and transport-as-a-service. Overthe next five years, the auto industry is due for a radical reset as these unfolding industry mega-trends dislocate its legacy supply and value chains and reallocate ...
ON Semiconductor acquires SensL Technologies Ltd.
ON Semiconductor has announced its acquisition of SensL Technologies Ltd. ("SensL"). The acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive to ON Semiconductor's non-GAAP earnings per share. SensL, based in Ireland, is a technology leader specialising in Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM), Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) and LiDAR sensing products for automotive, medical, industrial and consumer markets.
Range of APDs optimised for LIDAR applications
The Series 9 from First Sensor offers a wide range of silicon avalanche photodiodes (APDs) with very high sensitivity in the near infrared (NIR) wavelength range, especially at 905nm.With its internal gain mechanism, large dynamic range and fast rise time the APDs are suitable for LIDAR systems for optical distance measurement and object recognition according to the time of flight method.
VTT Marilyn takes a leap towards automatic 24/7 driving
VTT's robot car, Marilyn, sees better than humans in foggy, and even snowy, conditions, and can now navigate without stopping – including in bad weather. It can also see a human through fog and avoid accident automatically. This is enabled by the LiDAR mounted on the car’s roof, which can see wavelengths that are beyond the human senses. As the technology evolves, this represents a step towards a safe automated vehicle that is not eve...
Buck converter evaluation board cuts time to market
An evaluation board developed by GaN Systems and pSemi is available with full design support at distributor Richardson RFPD. The GS61008P-EVBHF 100 V buck converter evaluation board allows the user to evaluate GaN Systems’ 100 V GS61008P E-Mode GaN transistor with the pSemi PE29101 gate driver in a half-bridge configuration.
Sensor and Cloud data interaction scans in 3D
At the Hannover Messe show last week the Pepperl+Fuchs stand allowed visitors to view their likeness as a digital image and experienced production in lot size one.Visitors were able to scan themselves in 3D and have the image printed on the front page of a trade fair magazine. With the help of a digital twin, the production process on a sheet metal bending machine was simulated and the results used live for optimisation in response to the differi...
Byton teases first outlook on its E-Sedan model
As CES Asia 2018 is just around the corner, automotive company Byton, who believe in not just refining cars, but refining life have released a vehicle presentation that does not give anything about its new plans or products except a few bright lines to tease people.