Electronics

This 5,000-hour study of seven plastics and nine fuel blends is designed to help automakers and Tier 1 suppliers speed design and create better systems for oxygenated fuels. It includes long-term fuel compatibility data for commonly used engineering plastics in applications such as fuel sender units, rollover valves, outlet covers and fuel injector components and confirms the importance of long-term testing to aid understanding of how plastics and fuels interact. It also confirms the many performance benefits of Celcon® and Hostaform® acetal copolymers (POM) at fuel tank temperatures and Fortron® polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) at engine compartment temperatures.

The introduction of electric and hybrid electric vehicles have added high voltage electric modules into the car. The battery stack in a hybrid vehicle can be in excess of 150 V, which is then boosted to a much higher voltage level for the inverter driving the electric motor. The ACPL-782T automotive isolation amplifier, which is part of Avago’s R2Coupler™ series, features safe insulation, high common mode transient rejection and precision analog sensing – all in a compact 300 mil dual-in-line package.

The amount and complexity of software inside cars is increasing, creating the need to update software in order to keep up with new functionality and improvements, not to mention fix inevitable software defects. To help streamline these activities, OEMs can use firmware over-the-air (FOTA) technology to provide software updates throughout a program launch, right up to delivery, and supply perpetual software upgrades and add-ons, either remotely or through dealerships, to enhance the driving experience and build consumer loyalty. This new report, written by IDC and sponsored by Red Bend Software, discusses the benefits the automotive industry can achieve through the use of FOTA.

Product engineering organizations face the incredible challenge of ever shrinking market windows for innovation. These opportunities if missed, can lead to huge costs and overwhelming complexity, compromising quality leading to very expensive recalls. This paper examines the challenges associated with connecting models and simulations to the greater development lifecycle and how the solution offered by combining Integrity, a PTC product, with modeling environments and integrating model driven development with engineering processes allows organizations to increase the quality of their products while reducing the amount of time and effort needed to deliver those products.

The capabilities of system integration technologies impact electronics platform complexity, software design methodology, application design, system integration, reuse, upgrades, obsolescence management and certification for time-, mission-, and safety-critical applications. The right system integration infrastructure with deterministic high-bandwidth Ethernet enables design of less complex software-centric systems at lower lifecycle cost. New Quality Of Service (QoS) enhancements and protocol standards such as TTEthernet (SAE AS6802), guarantee strictly deterministic computing and networking performance and satisfy requirements of backplane and backbone applications in aerospace, defense, automotive, energy production and industrial systems.