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Mentor Graphics platform enables autonomous driving through real time sensing
Mentor Graphics has introduced the DRS360 platform – a comprehensive automated driving solution featuring breakthrough technology that captures, fuses and utilises raw data in real time from a wide range of sensing modalities, including radar, LIDAR, vision and other sensors.
Automotive IP and design solutions displayed at embedded world
At embedded world 2017, Cadence Design Systems will showcase its latest Tensilica DSPs and design tools targeted for automotive applications. The demonstrations will take place in Hall 4/4-116 at the Exhibition Centre in Nuremberg, Germany from March 14th-16th2017, where the theme of the event is 'Automotive Electronics Redefined.' The Cadence automotive-themed demonstrations will highlight the following:
Full process control thanks to imaging and sensors
Sensor and camera technologies are paving the way for the technologies of tomorrow: whether we are talking about quality-monitored Industry 4.0 manufacturing, precise medical diagnostics, automated driving or resource-efficient agriculture. Leading companies will be represented at the world’s leading trade fair LASER World of PHOTONICS, from June 26–29, 2017 in Munich, to showcase their often highly specialised products in all their d...
Inductor offers high temperature performance for automotive applications
A new AEC-Q200-qualified IHLP low profile, high current inductor in the 1616 case size that combines a high operating temperature to +155 °C with a low profile of 2mm to save space in automotive applications has been announced by Vishay Intertechnology. The Vishay Dale IHLP-1616BZ-5A is optimised for energy storage in DC/DC converters up to 2MHz.
Evaluation board demonstrates LiDAR in automotives
To demonstrate how eGaN FETs can drive laser diodes to enhance LiDAR measuring systems used in vehicles for accuracy and processing speed, Efficient Power Conversion offers the EPC9126.
MWC2017: Qualcomm, LG Electronics pursue automotive 5G
Qualcomm and LG Electronics (LG) announced coordinated efforts to facilitate testing and adoption of 5G and Cellular-V2X (C-V2X) communications into vehicles at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The companies expect to showcase these next-generation wireless technologies through trials during the first half of 2018.
New strategic supply agreement for Avalanche photodiodes (APD)
The optical technologies trade fair, SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco, sensor specialist First Sensor and Velodyne LiDAR announced an expansion of their cooperation for Avalanche photodiodes (APD), which has been in place since 2005.The strategic supply cooperation has a volume in the millions over the next three years. Velodyne LiDAR uses Avalanche photodiodes (APD) from First Sensor in its entire product range of LiDAR scanners.
Companies to work hand in hand with ADAS, sensor fusion and HiL
With the continuously rising demands on mobility and autonomous driving, integrated and automated testing solutions are needed for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).The combination of ADAS sensor fusion with a Hardware in the Loop (HiL) testing system is necessary to enable a new level of innovative, automated testing solutions in the automotive space.
Greater precision enhances time-to-digital converter
Improved speed and precision together with low power consumption are enhancements made to ams’s time-to-digital converter (TDC) offering. The new TDC-GPX2 also features standard low-voltage differential signalling (LVDS) and serial peripheral (SPI) interfaces, and a new, smaller 9mm x 9mm QFN64 package.
Reviewed procedure for measuring wind turbine power
The most widely reviewed industry procedure released to date, describes in a practical manner the main steps to using a nacelle-mounted wind lidar to measure a wind turbine power curve, closely following guidelines such as IEC 61400-12-1 CD.The reviewers include experts from Siemens, DONG Energy, DTU Wind Energy, RES (Renewable Energy Systems) and Natural Power.