Four major trends to accelerate the application of semiconductors in automobiles
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"At present, the automotive electronics industry has shown four major trends: advanced driving and driving, new energy vehicles, car network connections and advanced security". The day before, once a year in Infineon automotive electronics Developers Conference IADC2015, Infineon China automotive electronic business district director Xu Hui told the "China electronic newspaper" reporter, "these four trends will greatly accelerate the application of semiconductor in automobile".
Intelligent cars are far more than automatic driving
Automobile intelligent is automatic driving? It's too low to think so!
"Automatic driving is the future goal of car development," Xu Hui said. "However, the intelligence of the vehicle is far more than automatic driving. It will bring us infinite possibilities."".
Automotive intelligence is one of the themes of this conference, and automatic driving is a high degree of intelligence. To achieve automatic driving, the vehicle needs to keep track of the driver's condition, including the driver's judgment of the road condition and when to return the vehicle control to the driver.
Xu Hui said, the camera driver assistant system Infineon 3D image sensor chip based on Infineon and Star recently launched, is an important milepost automatic driving the car to help. At the time of flight (ToF) principle support, the system can accurately detect the driver's head and body position, and even capture the blink in the glasses or sunglasses case, to determine whether the driver is enough attention, fatigue driving, thus starting the corresponding countermeasures. For example, by vibrating seats or warning tones. The less concentrated the driver's attention, the more attention the car will bring to the attention. In order to respond quickly and accurately, the auxiliary system and the emergency braking system can be activated automatically before a potential emergency occurs.
In addition, this technology can also control the vehicle entertainment system or car by hand movement or posture with air conditioning, even for auxiliary and security functions in new cars, such as door auxiliary equipment, in the parking lot or to prevent domestic library opened the door to hit the other car, wall or ceiling. Infineon design partner Gestigon demonstrated at the conference how Infineon ToF sensors implemented vehicle object tracking and gesture recognition in order to achieve "3D virtual reality"".
"Whether hand gesture recognition or facial recognition, these basic techniques are basically mature. What Infineon wants to do is to use them faster and better in the car". Xu Hui told reporters, "although the technology is still in the stage of functional verification in the car, not mass production, but is expected in two or three years there will be a great breakthrough in the new market, and even the use of cars".
At the same time, Xu Hui also said that Infineon is working with some consumer electronics manufacturers, and strive to promote the use of more "cool" technology in automobile.
Automotive electronics development focus: energy saving, security, intelligence
Global car sales are expected to reach nearly 90 million vehicles in 2015, according to IHS, a market research firm, with China still the biggest market for car sales. Reduce and prevent traffic accidents, further energy conservation and environmental protection, improve driving comfort and intelligence, and bring more driving pleasure, is the core trend of the automotive industry which relies on chip technology.
Xu Hui believes that the growth of semiconductors in automotive applications is no less than three aspects: reducing carbon dioxide emissions, advanced security needs, comfort and high-end demand, a simple summary is energy saving, safety and intelligence.
Xu Hui further pointed out that, from the four major trends in automotive electronics, first of all the senior assistant driving and automatic driving, from advanced driver assistance have evolved into the ultimate autopilot, this process is the key to strive for zero accident; second is the new energy vehicles, the relevant requirements of the carbon dioxide emission reduction will continue to promote the automotive power the electric system in the process, this is the inevitable trend; again is the car network connection, advanced network technology is driving into the car and become part of the Internet, whether it is the system with other vehicle or terminal or car, the car will eventually complete docking with the Internet; finally advanced security, rapid the growth in the number of increasing vehicle network and software will inevitably lead to the risk of hacker attacks upgrade, connecting the inside and outside of the car must be part of the proof Fan Baohu.
It is reported that the Infineon AURIX series microprocessor can realize the whole system more efficient, more reliable and more secure processing of data and computing, sensor technology, image processing, 3D Holzer radar and other advanced can improve the advanced driving assistance system function and efficiency, safety instruction execution scheme (such as the 3-Bridge drive chip) and power supply can enhance the vehicle safety the driving power and driving.
Based on a range of safe and reliable products and solutions, Infineon's share in the automotive electronics market is increasing year by year. According to Xu Hui introduction, the current automotive electronics with 45% of the proportion of income become Infineon's largest division, fiscal year 2014 revenue of about 2 billion euros, including power system, security system, body system of three part of the income is very balanced.
Build local automobile electronic ecosphere
In order to encourage local design, promote local design industry, Infineon automotive electronics division has opened the first scheme of automobile electronic control unit system interaction platform -- automobile electronic ecosystem in early 2012. Xu Hui said that one of the aims of Infineon automotive electronics ecosystem is to provide technical support for developers of automotive electronic solutions to help them achieve technological breakthroughs to better serve the local automotive market