Electrical and Electronics

Auto Focus Asia, Issue 3, 2008

Infotainment Systems

The role of open platform architecture

An open platform provides quick and cost-effective integration of the latest in-vehicle infotainment capability, allowing scalability for upgrades and dynamic flexibility as new consumer electronic products come to market.

Infotainment Applications

Need for dynamic data integrity

F-RAM memory protects data / system integrity against glitches such as sudden power loss, and records and stores dynamic data continuously, as required by today’s advanced car infotainment systems such as navigation and radio systems.

Car Key

Today and in the Future

The Connected Key is the future. It allows the implementation of several new features and applications, and stores all the car information, tour programmes, and importantly offers connectivity.

Driver Assist Systems

The road ahead

Driver assist or intelligent vehicle safety systems are emerging as a crucial technology for improving auto safety and to lower society’s cost of auto accidents.

Electricity Fuel

Driving new utility-automaker collaboration

Electricity as an alternative fuel provides significant benefits while offering opportunities for new auto and utility industry collaboration and business models that can change the historical transportation and energy paradigm.

Global Trends in Dynamic Traffic Services

Focus on Asia-Pacific

Increasing urban traffic in Asia Pacific calls for the implementation of dynamic traffic information services. But it is not easy.

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Auto Focus Asia, Issue 2, December 2007

More-Electric Technologies for Environmentally Friendlier Vehicles

David Howe, Professor - Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Sheffield, UK

Converge or Divergence?

Richard S Chung, Vice President, Marketing & Design – Asia Pacific, Johnson Controls, South Korea

India’s Automotive Electronics Market Growth in the Next Decade

Opportunities & Challenges

Tarak Balaji M, Vice President – India Business & Product Development, Delphi Technical Center India