Electronic Design

The potential for driver distraction grows as we add more electronics to vehicles. Cell phones, Wi-Fi, televisions, navigation, music, and social media all are major attention grabbers. Driving is difficult enough, and these extras can lead to disaster. Manufacturers are aware of these dangers and are working to minimize them in the infotainment products now showing up in most new cars and trucks....More

If you’re familiar with OnStar, which General Motors has offered for nearly two decades, you have a sense of what telematics is all about. It connects your automobile to helpful emergency and driver services, usually via the cellular network. Yet telematics is just one part of the expanding inclusion of electronic systems and communications in vehicles (Fig. 1)....More

Tesla Motors will expand its network of Superchargers, with 27 stations expected by the end of the summer and 98% of the U.S. and Canada covered by the end of 2015. They will be designed to provide half a charge in just 20 minutes....More

As increasing data rates reduce available error margin in high-speed systems, engineers need to improve end-to-end signal integrity using design techniques that minimize attenuation, jitter, and impedance....More