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Autonomous vehicles interact with each other for the first time
On the 18th April 2018, the DRIVEN consortium demonstrated publicly for the first time the capabilities of its fleet of autonomous vehicles to interact and ‘talk’ to each other. From its headquarters at the RACE Building at the Culham Science Centre in Abingdon, DRIVEN set two of its vehicles, a white and blue 2014 Ford Fusion Titanium hybrid and a 2017 Ford Mondeo hybrid on the roads to show assembled media the latest milestone in th...
Two eGaN discrete transistors are qualified to AEC Q101 for automotive use
Two eGaN discrete transistors are qualified to AEC Q101 for automotive applications, announces Efficient Power Conversion (EPC). The company believes the certification brings its eGaN technology to vehicle design.
The arrival of self-driving cars with sensor fusion and processing
At Siemens US Innovation Day in Chicago, Siemens introduced abreakthrough solution for the development of autonomous driving systems. Thesolution, part of the Simcenter portfolio, minimises the need for extensive physicalprototyping while dramatically reducing the number of logged test miles necessaryto demonstrate the safety of autonomous vehicles.
Latest adaptive platform adopts DDS standard
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) has announced that AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open Systems ARchitecture) has just released the latest version of the Adaptive Platform, Release 18-03, which features the Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard. RTI joined AUTOSAR in 2017 to help advance the platform and ensure that it meets the technical requirements for autonomous vehicles.
New sensor technologies employed in today’s robots
Advancements in control and communications ICs have played an important role in realising today’s next generation of robots. However, it is the advent and fusion of many new, small and low cost sensing technologies that are at the heart of these modern and sophisticated robots. By:Mark J. Donovan,Senior Product Marketing Manager at ams.
Will the supply chain support market growth?
“The GaN power market remains small compared to the $30bn silicon power semiconductor market”, asserted Dr. Hong Lin, Technology & Market Analyst atYole Développement (Yole).“However, it has an enormous potential in the short term due to its suitability for high performance and high frequency solutions.”
Technique can spot objects hidden around corners
A driverless car is making its way through a winding neighbourhood street, about to make a sharp turn onto a road where a child’s ball has just rolled. Although no person in the car can see that ball, the car stops to avoid it. This is because the car is outfitted with extremely sensitive laser technology that reflects off nearby objects to see around corners. Stanford researchers have designed a laser-based system that can produce images o...
GaN power portfolio expanded with small and fast GaN drivers
Expanding on its Gallium Nitride (GaN) power portfolio, Texas Instruments has announced two new high speed GaN Field-Effect Transistor (FET) drivers to create more efficient, higher performing designs in speed-critical applications such as Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) and 5G Radio Frequency (RF) envelope tracking. The LMG1020 and LMG1210 can deliver switching frequencies of 50MHz while improving efficiency and enabling five times smaller s...
NAND Flash provides new pathway to higher density code memory
At the recent embedded world exhibition, Winbond Electronics Corporation, a supplier of semiconductor memory solutions, unveiled a new class of NAND Flash ICs which offer high quality and long data retention suitable for use in mission critical code storage applications at densities of 512Mb (64MBytes) and above.
Metasurface-based lens atop a MEMS platform
Researchers have, for the first time, integrated two technologies widely used in applications such as optical communications, bio-imaging and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) systems that scan the surroundings of self-driving cars and trucks.In the collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Harvard University, researchers successfully crafted a metasurface-based lens atop a MEMS platform.