A panel representing automotive, semiconductor, software and systems experts met to share insights on the hardware-software challenges of ISO 26262 compliance.

By John Blyler, Editorial Director, JB Systems

ISO 26262 addresses the needs for an automotive…

You know it’s going to be big, but just what is the future of automotive design? And how fast might that future approach?

Already we’re talking about and creating regulatory frameworks around things like autonomous vehicles, which are still a few…

The proliferation of electronics within vehicle design is making cars “sexy again,” but more importantly automotive electronics is making the overall digital experience sexier.

That was the word from two industry experts interviewed this week…

A quick review of Ethernet switches and transceivers will highlight their importance in the automotive Ethernet and the OPEN Alliance.

The connectivity that we’ve long enjoyed via the Internet at home and in the office is quickly moving to our automobiles…

In some ways a self driving car is the ultimate embedded system (my definition of an embedded system is one where the user doesn't have access to the OS) and they have been in the news recently because Google has decided to release accident data on their…

Although the theme of EW was Internet of Things, there was so much to see at Embedded World (EW).  I was impressed with the breadth of embedded computing technologies.   If you are interested in my morning EW adventures, please check out …

As electronics become ever more pervasive in the automotive, industrial automation and medical device sectors, fault-tolerant electronics sub-systems are becoming a standard requirement. Designing these systems with Cortex-R series processors that have…

Yesterday in Shanghai, Freescale Semiconductor made a significant announcement to bring their Kinetis EA series of MCUs into the automotive market.

Thus far, ARM’s success in automotive has mainly been with the ARM® Cortex®-A and Cortex…