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FPGAs Are Essential Building Blocks for Next-Gen Automotive Designs

FPGAs Are Essential Building Blocks for Next-Gen Automotive Designs

Posted 03/01/2024 by Bob O’Donnell, President and chief analyst, TECHnalysis Research

Car tech is hot again. After a hugely hyped build-up around fully autonomous driving several years back and then a starkly different reality, a sense of technology equilibrium is returning to the automotive world. There’s a more realistic perspective on what technologies can bring meaningful value to cars now and which ones are still a few years off. Even more important is the widely growing recognition of how important it is to bring more advanced technology into our automobiles. One of ...

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Lattice Drive: Enabling Next-Gen In-Vehicle Infotainment Systems

Enabling Next-Gen In-Vehicle Infotainment Systems

Posted 07/20/2023 by Mark Hoopes, Director of Automotive & Industrial Segment Marketing

“The Automotive industry is rapidly evolving and cars are getting smarter than ever with new technological advancements, notably with zonal architectures, improved sensors for ADAS, and the increasing use of high quality displays across vehicle models. Now more than ever, manufacturers need solutions that enable them to innovate while maintaining flexibility for future updates.” - Bob O’Donnell, President and chief analyst, TECHnalysis Research Demand for electric and hybrid ve...

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Unlocking Enormous Potential for Next Generation Vehicles

Unlocking Enormous Potential for Next Generation Vehicles

Posted 02/03/2023 by Christian Mueller, System Architect, Automotive Segment Marketing

The increasingly autonomous nature of vehicles is a major trending topic in the Automotive industry and, despite the challenges the industry faced during the pandemic, the disruptive technologies behind autonomous features have advanced dramatically in recent years. Earlier this year, McKinsey & Company issued a report on how advanced autonomous features in vehicles brings enormous growth potential not just for consumers or the manufacturers, but also to transform transportation and society ...

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Functional Safety in the Evolving Automotive Market

Functional Safety in the Evolving Automotive Market

Posted 11/03/2022 by Christian Mueller & Mark Hoopes, Lattice Semiconductor

Functional safety (FuSa) ensures systems or pieces of equipment are operating correctly in response to inputs or failure, and is a crucial part of the overall safety of a system. Originally developed for the Industrial market before being adopted into other markets, FuSa is now critical to automotive applications and is gaining even more importance as more technological advancements are added to vehicles. What impact has this shift had on the evolving Automotive market? We sat down with Functio...

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FPGAs Helping Cars Get Smarter

FPGAs Helping Cars Get Smarter

Posted 08/30/2022 by Bob O’Donnell, President and chief analyst, TECHnalysis Research

One of the many interesting things we all learned during the pandemic is that supply chains can cause problems for lots of people. Automotive industry supply chains in particular are, well, really complicated. Even general consumers started to learn how important semiconductors are to the production of today’s increasingly intelligent cars and how, if chips are in short supply, vehicles can’t get produced. What they probably didn’t quite get to is what a critical role FPGAs pla...

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Accelerating the Next Wave of Automotive Applications

Accelerating the Next Wave of Automotive Applications

Posted 08/23/2022 by Christian Mueller

With the increasing mandates for and adoption of hybrid and electric vehicles (EV), the demand for automotive applications development from power management maximizing battery life, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and human-machine interfaces (HMIs) for infotainment systems that support technologies like voice control and gesture recognition features are growing significantly. Car manufacturers are exploring the use of in-cabin vision systems and AI for a variety of use cases. Some e...

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Lattice Certus-NX FPGAs Optimized for Automotive Applications

Lattice Certus-NX FPGAs Optimized for Automotive Applications

Posted 08/25/2021 by Juju Joyce

Lattice Certus-NX general purpose FPGA family now offers automotive grade versions of its FPGAs that are AEC-Q100 qualified for use in wide range of automotive applications.

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Next-Generation MachXO3D FPGAs Make Automotive Space Secure

Next-Generation MachXO3D FPGAs Make Automotive Space Secure

Posted 09/16/2020 by JP Singh & Jay Aggarwal

Using MachXO3D FPGAs, automotive system developers can implement hardware security so a car’s electronic systems can protect, detect, and recover from unauthorized access.

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CES 2018

CES 2018: Enter the Era of Intelligent Edge Devices

Posted 01/23/2018 by Elena Champion

Were you impressed by the products and technologies showcased at CES 2018? This year’s event promised to “WHOA” attendees with new gadgets from industry giants and startups alike. From the slightly odd to the “where have you been all of my life” devices, this year’s CES focused on infusing intelligence into as many aspects of our lives as possible.

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