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Automotive controllers

Meeting ISO 26262 safety requirements

2021-12-15 Microchip launched the MXT1296M1T touchscreen controller for flexible screen formats. Another recent PIC18 micro-controllers (MCUs) enable development of ASIL B/C safety level applications.

Collaboration

Battery-powered trucks with CAN gateway solution

2021-12-22 Frigoblock announced that its all-electric refrigeration technology is used by Mercedes-Benz to cool the near-series battery-power...

Automotive

Actuator and sensor micro-controller equipped with CAN FD

2021-12-17 Renesas Electronics announced two micro-controller units (MCUs) designed for automotive actuator and sensor control applications. ...

Position sensor

Designed for potentially explosive areas

2021-12-15 Temposonics, company of the Amphenol Group, announced that the position sensors of the T-Series now feature ingress protection IP6...

Radar sensors

Coming with multiple CAN FD ports

2022-01-12 At CES 2022, NXP has introduced the S32R45 and S32R41 radar processors providing CAN FD connectivity. The chips are suitable for semi- and autonomously driving vehicles.

Micro-controller

CAN XL and CAN routing function integrated

2022-01-11 At CES 2022, Infineon has launched the Aurix TC44x family intended for use in ADAS (advanced driver assistance system) control units. The MCU features CAN, Ethernet, and PCI connectivity.

Advanced driver assistance systems

77-GHz radar sensor with two CAN FD interfaces

2022-01-07 At the CES 2022, Texas Instruments (TI) presented its AWR2944 radar sensor. It can detect objects up to 40 % farther away from the vehicle.

CANopen

27-mm long rotary encoders

2021-12-22 Position and motion sensor provider Posital has announced further models of its Ixarc rotary encoders with housings that are 27 mm long. Combined with a diameter of 36 mm, make the devices suitable for tight spaces. CANopen is supported.

Collaboration

Battery-powered trucks with CAN gateway solution

2021-12-22 Frigoblock announced that its all-electric refrigeration technology is used by Mercedes-Benz to cool the near-series battery-powered eActros trucks that started practical operations in Germany and the Netherlands.

Edge AI computer

Based on Nvidia Jetson processors

2021-12-20 Advantech launched the AIR-020 series of AI (artificial intelligence) PCs for edge AI applications such as traffic monitoring, defect inspection, AGV (automated guided vehicles), people counting, medical imaging, etc.

Nvidia

Conductive-cooled computer with two CAN interfaces

2021-12-17 MPL designed the Milcots4x-GPU, a conductive-cooled Xeon E-2276ME and i7-9850HE CPU (central processing unit) system with integrated Nvidia RTX 5000 GPU (graphics processing unit) cards with 3072 Cuda Cores.

Automotive

Actuator and sensor micro-controller equipped with CAN FD

2021-12-17 Renesas Electronics announced two micro-controller units (MCUs) designed for automotive actuator and sensor control applications. They support edge evolution in electronic and electrical (E/E) architecture and one comes with a CAN FD interface.

Position sensor

Designed for potentially explosive areas

2021-12-15 Temposonics, company of the Amphenol Group, announced that the position sensors of the T-Series now feature ingress protection IP68, IP69, as well as Nema 4 and 4X. The sensors come with a CAN output.

Automotive controllers