EPN Automotive Electronics Blog

Hitch your car to a star

The Korean foundry Dongbu HiTek is reaching for the stars: Specialized on analog and mixed signal semiconductor technologies, it’s trying to expand its business into automotive ICs. Its process technologies have undergone high-quality automotive certifications and now they’re ready for more.

Extensible prototyping

While automotive electronics makes driving much more comfortable, »electronified« modern cars also have shorter lifetime and design time than »oldtimers«. So, the new car with the heatable cigarette lighter won’t last for 20+ years like but we won’t have to wait 10 years for the successor. Development tools need to develop even faster…

Not for rainy days

The usual thick smog might obscure the common Californian sunshine in Los Angeles but in late October that region is still a good place for a solar power trade show. Visitors may even take bicycle ride along Venice Beach - and this doesn’t even have to be exhausting.