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What Designers Should Know About AEC-Q100

One defective component can snowball into 1,000 defective vehicles. That's why AEC-Q100 has an iron fist on automotive standards.

21 hours ago by Tyler Charboneau

LiDAR-Captured Road Data Now Publicly Available in Open-Source Machine Learning Dataset

Scale AI says COVID-19 has shown the value of autonomous vehicles for no-contact delivery. They're making real-world road data available to train machine learning models to this end.

3 days ago by Gary Elinoff

Study Focused on Photonics Circuitry Shows Promising Advances for the Use of LiDAR in Autonomous Vehicles

Researchers at the lab of Tobias Kippenberg at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have reportedly found a new way to implement a parallel FMCW LiDAR engine by using integrated nonlinear photonic circuitry.

About 4 days ago by Luke James

The Pitfalls of Contact Tracing are Addressed in New Wireless Ranging Tech and a BLE Chip

Radio Signal Strength Indicators, a common method of contact tracing, often yield inaccurate positioning results. Dialog Semiconductor says they have a better solution.

May 19, 2020 by Robin Mitchell

How 3D LiDAR May Be the Key to Ongoing Social Distancing Safety

As businesses begin reopening, one company is employing 3D LiDAR to help people practice distancing in busy public areas.

May 12, 2020 by Kayla Matthews

Stanford Researchers Discover How Exactly Li-Ion Batteries Degrade

By knowing more about lithium-ion battery degradation, engineers can define steps to improve lifetime and performance.

May 11, 2020 by Gary Elinoff

MATLAB and Simulink Get a Major Deep Learning Facelift

MathWorks has revamped MATLAB and Simulink with a host of deep learning development tools—and they say these updates will be a major boon for automotive and wireless designers.

May 09, 2020 by Robin Mitchell

New IMU Addresses Critical Safety Threat for ADAS—Sensor Drift

ACEINNA's latest IMU claims a reliability of 1.3°/hr, aiming for the daunting world of autonomous vehicle positioning where sensor drift can threaten safety.

May 05, 2020 by Gary Elinoff

A Vision for Zero Road Fatalities Starts at an ADAS Safety Sensor

Vision Zero has set the ambitious goal of zero road fatalities—and ADAS safety may be the key. TI and other suppliers are stepping up with mmWave radar sensors to help.

May 05, 2020 by Gary Elinoff

What “E-Mobility” Means to the Electrical Engineer

"E-mobility" may seem like a mega-trend buzz word in the industry. But the circuit-level designs that drive this term (especially those involving EV batteries and charging technology) directly affect engineers.

May 04, 2020 by Nicholas St. John

UK Completes Vehicle-to-Grid Project, Step to Eliminating Diesel Cars by 2035

How exactly does the UK plan to ban new diesel and petrol car sales by 2035? The VIGIL project is a start.

May 04, 2020 by Gary Elinoff

A New Spiking Neural Network-Based Chip Shows Promise for Preventing Drone Collisions

Described as the first of its kind, Imec's new SNN-based chip is designed for anti-collision radar systems for drones.

May 01, 2020 by Gary Elinoff

Micron Goes Open Source With Its Heterogeneous Memory Storage Engine

How does Micron's hefty memory hardware portfolio qualify them for this shift?

April 29, 2020 by Cabe Atwell

No More Pulse Tuning? A New Source Measure Unit May Surge LiDAR Testing Forward

Tektronix says they've simplified VCSELS testing by combining a high-speed current pulser with a DC source and measurement function.

April 27, 2020 by Cabe Atwell

What Does “99% Power Efficiency” Really Mean in Silicon Carbide MOSFETs?

Whenever we discuss power semiconductors, the feature that takes center stage is power efficiency. But what exactly do we mean by that term?

April 21, 2020 by John Koon

The Winding Road Ahead for Electric Vehicles Post COVID-19

Engineers should keep an eye on EV trends to be aware of new design directives that will be handed them from the top down.

April 21, 2020 by Gary Elinoff

A Cheaper Alternative to LiDAR Technology Use in Autonomous Vehicles

Electrical engineers at Stanford have been working on shrinking the mechanical and electronic components found in a rooftop LiDAR system down to a single silicon chip.

April 20, 2020 by Luke James

The Hall-Effect Sensor and the Rise of Electric Power-Assisted Steering

What can Melexis' new hall-effect sensor teach us about non-contact torque sensors and electric power-assisted steering in general?

April 20, 2020 by Steve Arar

Which Electrical Engineers are Considered “Essential Workers” During COVID-19?

If healthcare workers are on the front line of the pandemic, engineers may be on the second.

April 18, 2020 by Tyler Charboneau

Could AI Accurately Predict Battery Health for EVs and Consumer Electronics?

British researchers seem to think so—they claim that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning could be used to predict the health of a battery with 10 times higher accuracy than current techniques.

April 15, 2020 by Luke James