Robust automotive semiconductors facilitate the future of driving
Automotive semiconductors are rapidly improving, along with the face of the automotive industry. With increasing time-to-market pressure and increasingly complex electronic systems in vehicles, today's component supplier is now expected to cover a wide spectrum of automotive products and applications, and to act no longer as mere suppliers but as system integrators, offering manufacturers complete electronic systems.
Which means that designers of automotive semiconductors need not only understand the sophisticated realities of the chips they design, they also have to be unsurpassed in their knowledge of the global automotive market and its current needs.
That way, they can offer a variety of integrated automotive semiconductors for a range of applications.
NEC Electronics is a leading developer of semiconductor products worldwide. Their Duesseldorf-based European headquarters is especially adept at understanding the demands of the European automakers. NEC Electronics supplies top-quality automotive semiconductors and is leading the industry in system interconnectivity by adjoining future existing technologies as well as by providing the controlling and driving power components for full system solutions.
New safety technologies such as pre-crash sensing, blind spot detection and collision warning systems are being developed through imbedded image processing that communicates over the improved controller area network (CAN). NEC Electronics further promotes interconnection with development of an open standard software architecture that provides a platform for the management of the many systems on-board the vehicle. These systems will ultimately interface with many of the in-house 4- to 64-bit microcrontrollers to manipulate their reliable industry proven hardware level components.
Power MOSFETs, pulse actuators in an ABS system, drive high-resolution graphic displays, provide cruise control or climate control, are all just a few of the applications automotive semiconductors are used in. Other highly evolved components include optocouplers that are designed to protect sensitive circuitry from high power and limit EMF influence but which do not limit high frequency signals.
Whether a car manufacturer is looking for automotive semiconductors for use in the dashboard, airbag, audio or infotainment system, NEC Electronics can meet their needs and follow-up with incredible customer service.
