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Dear Sir/Madam
The automotive electronic becomes more and more one of the most
important vertical electronics markets in the world. Therefore
the designers have to know this market will develop. Some
information about the trends in automotive electronics you´ll
find in this newsletter. Enjoy!
Wolfgang Patelay
Technical Editor, EPN
Waterproof detector switches (Alps Electric)
The SPVQ4 Series contains waterproof detector swiches that
feature high contact reliability, have a long stroke and can
withstand severe conditions. The models are versatile sensors
that can be employed to detect the position of automobile doors
and trunk lids, door locks, and mechanisms on consumer
electronics and other devices used around water.
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Million-gate low-cost FPGA (Actel)
Fulfilling the industry's demand for cost-effective,
full-featured field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), Actel
Corporation announced shipping of its low-cost ProASIC3 device. The
one-million system-gate ProASIC3 A3P1000 delivers total-system-cost,
performance, power and security advantages over comparable
SRAM-based products.
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Transflective 6.5 and 8.8in. displays (Sharp Electronics)
The 6.5in. LQ065T9DZ01 and the 8.8in. LQ088H9DZ01 TFT
displays are equipped with Super Mobile Technology to guarantee a
constantly high image quality and a wide viewing angle despite
changing brightness levels in the environment. This technology
combines the advantages of a high-reflection TFT with the
performance of a back-lit transmissive TFT.
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LED-matrix lighting modules (Universal Science)
The LED array modules normally comprise a matrix of
customer-specified <BR/>surface-mount LEDs soldered to an etched
copper layer, separated from an aluminium or copper heat-dissipating
base by a thermally efficient, electrically isolating dielectric
material. LED-matrix-based designs are increasingly being used in
applications such as automotive lighting clusters.
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Tough enough for automotive
In automotive
applications, shock and vibration frequently cause premature
failure of aluminium electrolytic capacitors.
Norbert Will from Epcos shows
in his article that his company has addressed this problem and
now offers designs with significantly higher mechanical
stability.
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Good
sight even in the dark
For a camera to perform well in automotive
applications, it must meet stringent requirements. It must
outperform general-purpose cameras in all conditions of intensity
and direction of illumination, wavelengths of light in the scene,
and speed of motion of the object being detected.
Tim Baeyens from Cypress explains in his
article the requirements tomeet the performance, quality, and
cost requirements imposed on automotive cameras.
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Novel circuit isolates temperature sensor from its host
Temperature sensors must sometimes operate at locations whose
return potentials differ considerably from that of the
data-acquisition system's common—that is, equipotential—ground.
In consequence, the temperature sensor's support circuitry must
provide galvanic isolation between the sensor and its
data-acquisition system. The circuit described in the Design
Idea by Alfredo H Saab and Tamer Mogannam
from Maxim solves problems by isolating the sensor's
signal and power supply.
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PIC
microprocessor drives 20-LED dot- or bar-graph display
The
circuit in the Design Idea of
Noureddine Benabadji,
University of Sciences and Technology, Oran, Algeria
uses only five I/O lines to drive a dot- or bar-graph display of 20
LEDs. Although this version of the design uses a small and
inexpensive one-time-programmable microprocessor, such as a
PIC12C508A, you can use other microprocessors with N I/O lines to
drive as many as N×(N–1) LEDs.
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4| Market Research |
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Auto electronics market set to exceed US$50 Billion by 2010
The world market for non-entertainment automotive electronics
was estimated at US$36.8 billion in 2005 and is forecast to
reach US$52.1 billion by 2010, according to the latest figures
from a report published by Reed Electronics Research and
distributed by In-Stat. Growth is forecast across all product
segments and regions with the strongest demand coming from the
emerging markets in Asia and East and Central Europe. North
America will show an average increase of 5.1% per year in the
period to 2010, with the market increasing from US$13.2 billion
in 2005 to reach US$16.9 billion in 2010. Although North America
is a mature market for a number of automotive electronic
systems, strong growth will be seen for electronic braking,
steering and driver information.
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5| Book of the Month |
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So you wanna be an embedded engineer, by Lewin Edwards
In this new, highly practical guide, expert embedded designer
and manager Lewin Edwards answers the question, “How do I become
an embedded engineer?” Embedded professionals agree that there
is a treacherous gap between graduating from school and becoming
an effective engineer in the workplace, and that there are few
resources available for newbies to turn to when in need of
advice and direction. This book provides that much-needed
guidance for engineers fresh out of school, and for the
thousands of experienced engineers now migrating into the
popular embedded arena.
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Competition |
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Sampling thermal and shielding products
Get your hands on two of Chomerics' sample kits packed with
dozens of different types of thermally conductive compounds and
EMI shielding tapes and gaskets. Delivered in rugged plastic
boxes, the shielding kit and thermal kit, worth 290 and 180
euros respectively, highlight the company's solutions in these
fields. Three pairs of such kits are on offer.
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