The origins of the ongoing automotive – electronics components convergence can perhaps be traced back to the late 1980s, when Mercedes and its supplier Robert Bosch GmbH developed the electronic stability control, a system designed to help prevent accidents by monitoring a car's trajectory and correcting this when it strays from the direction in which the driver is steering. The enormous benefi...

Electronics technology is indispensable for improving automotive performance. Especially, in electric vehicles (EV) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), electric systems are the heart of the automobile. Power devices are one of the most important components of car electronics systems and they are applied to many systems, for example, oil-pressure valve control of the ABS system, and motor contro...

In-car electronics plays an important role in many automotive applications, such as, for example, steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire, and is expected to gradually replace mechanical or hydraulic means to control these systems. The number of electronic components in a car has therefore significantly grown up, thus leading important implications on the vehicle engineering process. In particular, in-...

A major trend in automotive industry is to enrich driver and passenger experience with an increasing amount of consumer electronics and car-2-x functionality. A close interaction between this added functionality and the classical automotive domains allows for innovations that are valuable to the end customer and cannot be outplayed easily by devices with a pure consumer electronic origin. Innov...

Still, to an extent, the idea persists that inertial sensors are useful mainly when the end product has a need to detect acceleration and deceleration. True enough from a purely scientific view. Yet, that could be to miss out on many of the expanding uses of MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes in areas such as medical devices, industrial equipment, consumer electronics, and automotive electronics.

Modern in-car infotainment and navigation systems will incorporate features from the automotive electronics as well as from the consumer electronics. These domains have very different innovation cycles, with effects on the hardware and software development process. The “Innovation Cycle Dilemma” refers to the difficulty in integrating both domains. This paper describes a platform that proved to...