Newsletter | October 31, 2023

10.31.23 -- Are We Ever Going To Have Commercially Available Self-Driving Cars

FROM THE EDITOR

Are We Ever Going To Have Commercially Available Self-Driving Cars?

Ask 100 people when self-driving cars are going to be commercially available and you’ll most likely get 100 different answers. Here, we throw our hat into the ring and I all but guarantee you the answer will be less than satisfying.

I’m Going As A Nobel Prize Winner For Halloween

This year’s batch of Nobel Laureates all seem to be fine scientists, researchers, authors, and leaders who don’t seem to have anything to do with Halloween. But don’t worry, we found some past award winners who do!

FEATURED ARTICLE

Automotive ADAS And Automated Driving

ADAS systems assist drivers with steering, braking, or acceleration functions to increase safety for all. They vary in complexity and are paving the way for fully autonomous vehicles.

SPOTLIGHT ON AUTOMOTIVE & CONNECTED VEHICLES

The Evolution Of Electric Vehicle Battery Management Systems

Advancements in battery chemistry drive changes in electric vehicle manufacturing and battery management systems, with a shift from passive to active cell balancing requiring specialized capacitors.

Electronically Steerable Front End For Qualifying Automotive Radar

Autonomous driver assistance systems require dependable data from diverse radar sensors for object detection. Testing these sensors in autonomous driving scenarios is a known challenge.

Testing Automotive Susceptibility To Electromagnetic Pulses

Air traffic control radar emits high-strength pulsed fields that can damage automobile electronics. Manufacturers have developed OEM specs to test the susceptibility to electromagnetic pulses.

Top 10 Considerations For Automotive EMC Chamber Design And Testing

This resource will help you avoid the most common mistakes and outlines the important things to consider to successfully develop or refine an automotive EMC chamber and test design.

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Delivering Big Switching Power In A Small Package With SiC FETs

New SiC and GaN semiconductor switches offer better efficiency and smaller sizes than silicon-based parts. Qorvo's 750V SiC-FET in a compact TOLL package can greatly benefit your design.

High-Performance Integrated 24 GHz FMCW Radar Transceiver Chipset

The ADF5904 is designed for energy-efficient high-frequency applications that use digital beamforming, such as automotive and industrial radar systems.

Reverberation Chamber Tuner/Stirrer Considerations In EMC Testing

Tuners support both stirred and stepped operation. They can be sized to match any chamber dimensions and crafted from any of several RF energy-reflective materials.

Stellar Constellations With Stellar Connectorized Parts

Examine a mmWave up- and down-conversion chain using a fully coaxial connectorized lineup operating at 81 GHz, demonstrating the power and flexibility of the 1.0 mm connectorized product family.

MOST POPULAR NEWS

u-blox Reaches A Milestone With The Sale Of 25 Million LTE-M Modules

QuantalRF Novel RF Architecture Improves Power Efficiency Of Wi-Fi 7 Front-Ends

VIAVI, TCS Celebrate 25-Year Partnership With Focus On The Future

CAES Awarded Production Contract From US Navy For AN/ALQ-99 Low Band Transmitter

Fibocom Empowers The Great Diversity Of The 5G FWA Ecosystem

Microwave Products Group Delivers Filters To Serve Onboard Fighter Jets

Quectel Expands IoT Antenna Portfolio With Six New 4G And 5G Antennas

Richardson RFPD Announces Availability Of SKY5 2.4 To 8.3 GHz SPDT Switch

Nokia Introduces Industry’s First Carrier-Grade Wi-Fi 7 Product Portfolio

Airbus, Northrop Grumman Sign Strategic Partnership

Adtran Launches Satellite Time And Location Solution For Enhanced GNSS Resilience

FEATURED MULTIMEDIA

Auto-Radar Drive Scenario Simulation: Increasing Realism With Multipath, Diffuse Scattering, And Micro-Doppler

Learn how Remcom’s WaveFarer® Radar Simulation Software uses ray-tracing to simulate virtual drive scenarios and predict radar returns as a system moves through an environment with vehicles, roadway structures, pedestrians, and other objects.

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Using Wavefarer Automotive Radar Simulation Software And Chirp Doppler To Assess Radar Performance For Drive Scenarios

This presentation demonstrates ray-tracing and scattering simulations from Remcom’s WaveFarer combined with chirp Doppler analysis algorithms to assess radar performance for drive scenario simulations.

FEATURED PRODUCTS AND RESOURCES

AK-521F-4 Bilogical Antenna Kit -- 25 MHz - 4,000 MHz

For rapid deployment along with the mobility of small package, this Bilogical Antenna Kit provides an inexpensive solution to broadband applications.

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A.H. Systems

40 GHz Coaxial Switches For 5G Applications

These 2.92 mm switches come in SPDT, multi-position, transfer (DPDT), and terminated models, offering excellent RF performance in return loss (VSWR), insertion loss, and isolation.

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dB Control

80 - 1,000 MHz, 2,000 W Solid-State, High-Power Amplifier

The AMP2121-LC solid-state, high-Power amplifier is designed for broadband EMI/RFI, lab, and communication applications and is suitable for all single-channel modulation standards, EMC, and automotive.

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Exodus Advanced Communications

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