EPN Automotive Electronics Blog

The future at your fingertips

Just imagine you wouldn’t need to press button anymore? Just with a soft fingertip you’ll start the car, point where you want to go or start the infotainment system by intuitively using your fingertips to quickly and easily adjust temperature, change audio volume, or find a location on the map. This all could be possible, promises Cypress Semiconductor  as the company has introduced the “world's broadest Automotive-Qualified Touch-Sensing Portfolio featuring industry's first capacitive touchscreen solution”, acclaims Hassane El-Khoury, Automotive Business Unit Manager at Cypress.

Infotainment award “App My Ride”

A catching name (“App My Ride”) which is misleading in at least one respect, a heap of prize money, a job and travel expenses - a contest that seems to have got everything right.

More comfort, more safety

It’s a start: About 90 car models which have implemented MOST as the network backbone for infotainment applications are on the road. The latest one to do so, is Volkswagen who adopted the fast infotainment network for its new generation of Tuareg II, a midsize SUV.

Intersil buys itself into automotive infotainment

Cars have been driving for over 100 years, and modern electronics does not change much about this elementary function. However, one of automotive electronics’ major benefits is that it enables in-car-entertainment and infotainment that goes far beyond the good old car radio. A huge market which Intersil is just now seriously targeting.

Video on the road

APIX short for Automotive Pixel Link, connects Cameras to Displays. This Gigabit connection from Inova Semiconductors is an advancement of Inova’s remote display connection Gigastar for automotive applications. Together with Xilinx , the company has developed an APIX IP core for the Spartan-6 XA FPGAs.

“MOST150 Does It”

It is quite common that even interesting conferences or shows have strikingly dumb slogans. If dullness of the motto is a measure for quality, MOST Cooperation’s “MOST Forum”, which will be held on March 23th, 2010 in Frankfurt, you wouldn’t want to miss it. Themed "MOST150 Does It", the demonstrations at the conference and exhibition will visualize the five major fields of in-car use cases.