This Week's Focus: Automotive Electronics
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4-Channel Automotive PMIC Meets
Vehicle Camera Needs

Maxim Integrated Products has introduced a compact MAX20049 power management IC (PMIC) that integrates four power supplies into a tiny footprint. The device offers many options to support various output voltages, while also providing fault mitigation by flagging faults and shifts in output voltages.
Automotive camera modules tend to be size-constrained, so designers are constantly in search of a power management solution that can pack the necessary power and functionality into a small form factor. The 4-channel MAX20049 power management IC is almost 30 percent more compact than competitive solutions and offers the highest efficiency among other quad-power power management ICs in its class, says Maxim.



DENSO Taps Cypress' Fail-Safe Flash for
Car Cockpit Design

Cypress Semiconductor has announced that automotive supplier DENSO has selected Cypress' Semper fail-safe storage for its next-generation digital automotive cockpit applications with advanced graphics. Based on an embedded Arm Cortex-M0 processing core, the Semper family is purpose-built for automotive environments.
The Cypress Semper family offers high density serial NOR Flash memory up to 4 Gbit and leverages the company's proprietary MirrorBit process technology. The family also features EnduraFlex architecture, which achieves greater reliability and endurance. Semper fail-safe storage devices were the first in the industry to achieve the ISO 26262 automotive functional safety standard and are ASIL-B compliant, says Cypress.
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 Automotive USB 3.1 SmartHub Features Type-C Support

Microchip Technology provides an automotive-qualified USB 3.1 Gen1 SmartHub IC, offering up to 10 times faster data rates over existing USB 2.0 solutions and reducing indexing times to improve the user experience in vehicles. To support the rising adoption of USB Type-C in the smartphone market and enable universal connectivity in vehicles, the USB7002 SmartHub IC includes interfaces for USB Type- C connectors.

As automotive manufacturers continue to add more functions to vehicles and integrate with mobile phone applications, the role of USB for reliable data transfers requires robust functionality and faster transfer speeds. Consumers expect instant responses from infotainment systems despite many functions occurring simultaneously in vehicles, from transferring mapping data to playing music and interacting with user interfaces.

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Hypervisor Achieves Compliance to New Version of ISO 26262

OpenSynergy has received the certificate from TÜV SÜD confirming the compliance of OpenSynergy's COQOS Hypervisor to ISO 26262:2018 ASIL-B. COQOS Hypervisor is a Type-1 hypervisor for the Armv8 architecture developed specifically to support automotive use-cases such as cockpit and domain controllers. OpenSynergy specializes in embedded automotive software and its hypervisor technology has been in mass production since 2014.

The COQOS Hypervisor allows developers to build highly compartmentalized systems that can be tailored to their specific requirements. The COQOS Hypervisor has been developed for the Armv8 architecture, supports many automotive SoC's and takes full advantage of hardware virtualization. Current series development with COQOS Hypervisor includes cockpit controllers---integrating infotainment and a digital instrument cluster---,infotainment systems, rear-seat entertainment, connectivity devices and gateways.



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Firms Collaborate to Address Chinese Automotive Radar Market

NXP Semiconductors has announced a new strategic collaboration and investment agreement with Hawkeye Technology, a company serving the Chinese automotive radar sector. Hawkeye will offer its 77 GHz expertise, a team of highly qualified engineers and a state-of-the-art lab complex within Southeast University in Nanjing, China. Together, the two companies plan to craft a reference design collaboration that leverages the top engineering talent at Southeast University and NXP's longstanding radar expertise, to create NXP-based reference designs for the Chinese automotive market.

China's automotive radar sensor market is growing at nearly 2 times the world market rate. Current automotive market analysis projects that by 2020, radar technology will be in 50% of all newly produced cars. These robust appraisals are driven in part by the China New Car Assessment Program (C-NCAP), which mandates the further implementation and innovation of radar in safety-related applications such as blind spot detection, automatic emergency braking, front and rear cross traffic detection and precise environmental mapping.



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