Newsletter du 01/02/2008 : Jan- Feb
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Diesotto : the future of the combustion engine by Mercedes
During last “Festival International Automobile” in Paris, Mercedes has been awarded for the Diesotto engine. As powerful and responsive as a V6 petrol engine, and with the hight torque and the excellent economy of a modern diesel, this engine cuts emissions and gives driving pleasure. This innovative technology includes direct fuel injection, turbocharging and a variable compression ratio. The centrepiece is a homogeneous charge compression ignition, a highly efficient combustion similar to diesel. CO² emissions are 127 g per km.
Bosch wins an award for CO² sensor
The German Automobile Association (ADAC) has given an award (yellow angel) for a new CO² sensor from Bosch. This system, called CCS, measures the level of carbone dioxide in the passenger compartment and helps to control the efficiency of the air-conditioning, by reducing the fuel consumption. The fuel saving is in average half a liter per 100 km driven.
Renault will launch electric cars in Israel
Carlos Ghosn, CEO from Renault and Nissan, has signed an agreement in Israel to launch electric cars by 2011. The car maker will sell vehicles with lithium-ion batteries, although “Project Better Place” partner will equip the country with recharge plugs (500 000 scheduled, nationwide). This is the first project of its kind in the world.
Do you know 112 ?
According to a survey, only 22 % of EU citizens know that 112 is the number to call to get assistance in case of emergency in Europe. The Commission would like member states to boost awareness on 112. By 2010, new cars are supposed to have an on-board emergency system linked to this number…
ESC can save lives in truck and coaches
In an agreement reached in Geneva, at a United Nations meeting, producers of trucks and coaches have decided to equip new vehicles with Electronic Stability Control. This system could save over 500 deaths and 2500 serious injuries per year in Europe.
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NEW EDITION OF THE CONGRESS
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Here we are! Reed Electronics group and Reed business Information are now creating the 5th Edition of the International Automotive Electronics Congress!
As usual this new edition will be held in Paris at the Pullman Rive Gauche (ex-Sofitel Sèvres) on November 3 - 4, 2008. This year will be dedicated to understand the new user habits and their consequences on Electronics, telematics and energy management.
You want to join the congress as speaker, exhibitor or attendee?
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WHAT'S NEW AT IAEC 2008 ?
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For the first time, a special exhibition pass will be available for visitors that would be interested in discovering the last technologies on the exhibition area!
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2008 ADVISORY BOARD
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A call for papers will be available at the end of the month. do not hesitate to send your paper, it will be submit to the advisory board.
We are pleased to welcome in the 2008 advisory board :
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Christian Balle, RENAULT
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Thibault De Vaurex,INFINEON
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Denis Griot, FREESCALE
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Gerulf Kinkelin, PSA PEUGEOT CITROËN
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Peter Kohlschmidt, AUDI
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Jochen Langheim,ST MICROELECTRONICS
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Laurent Meillaud, LM.COM
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Philippe Remond, ROBERT BOSCH
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Thierry Seynaeve, ESG
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Marc Simon, FAURECA
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THE EXPERT OF THE MONTH
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| Xavier Apolinarski, Strategic partnerships Manager for Transport at CEA-LIST
You have just published in France a book about : « Development of embedded electronics in terrestrial transports ». Are we at the edge of a revolution ?
Today, it is time for a new business model and for a technological revolution. A new business model, because industries in transport, mainly automotive and rail industries, have been developing since one year various product functions based on electronics. The innovations are now available and the value chain is strong. Technological revolution, because the growth of these technologies compared to mechanics is so strong, and because the value of these embedded systems is on a good trend too. Today, you have to produce quickly, with high levels of quality and reliability. The technological revolution is more about conception tools and the development of the future embedded systems. The competitiveness and quality rise the bar higher and higher on shorter cycles".
More precisely, what about automotive electronics?
In the field of electronics, Automotive industry is in a adulthood phase : the good example for that is Autosar. On a world scale, in a single block, the industry is converging towards a standard that is going to bring a real revolution, in the conception of embedded systems in a first step. Then, in a following step, aeronautics and rail industries will use this standard too. Automotive industry is leading the way, due to its capacity to reduce costs at an ISO-performance. The automotive revolution is based on strong assets : its capacity to organize human resources inside the industry, to develop a conception and a development process base on tools and to manage the re-use of a same function between two vehicles. The requirements for the quality of the product, costs associated to the pressure of the time of development and reliability levels encourage companies to work together and with compatible tools".
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(Interview - suite)
You are of the leaders of Num@tec, the automotive part of System@tic cluster in France. What are you working on in the fied of electronics ?
The projects led under the aegis of Num@tec Automotive are focused on conception and development tools. The applications for vehicles are investigated in Mov’eo cluster for automobile, AESE for aeronautics and I-Trans for railway. More precisely, the projects at Num@tec are about electronic architectures, safe modes, sotware tools, diagnostic, man machine interface and data fusion. It’s important to notice that on the tools side, it’s easier to switch a technology from an industrial sector to another one. Since two years, railway industry is working very closely with automotive and a first common project has been created : IMOFIS.
The safe mode is the top priority in embedded software. Do you consider that Autosar is a good approach to make embedded electronics more reliable ?
Definitely, yes. Autosar is the good approach, because it’s spreading over the whole industry, and gives birth to specifications that are relevant. With Autosar, a first step – and I would say a leapfrog - has been made. The safe mode has to be considered on several levels, from A to D on ASIL levels (D is the highest) and that is the ISO 26262 standard that will define security requirements. The ISO 26262 standard and Autosar will be compliant, just because same actors rule the system, from both sides. So, we will have a standard translated into specifications in Autosar. At CEA-LIST, we’re watching this topics with interest, because various technologies are being developed for automotive industry. Our customers ask us to be compliant with Autosar. That’s why, in our project EDONA, whose team leader is Renault, the CEA-LIST is planning to join Autosar.
You’re strongly believing to conception and simulation tools. In which manner can they help companies to match challenges in the field of electronics ?
The tools help automotive industry to be more competitive and to guarantee a high level of quality. They are today in the heart of the development process for industrial applications. With such tools, you know how to guarantee requirements for traceability, exchange standards compliance between two softwares, or co-simulation. When you have requirements for a safe mode, tools are the only way to demonstrate the relevance of your application, because searching the failure on the application itself is much harder and unpredictable.
What is your vision of the intelligent and the connected car of tomorrow ?
The connected car of the future will have multi-function video cameras linked to evolutive man machine interfaces. At the CEA-LIST, we have a technological roadmap that shows that videos algorithms and the processor are very close from each other, so that they can ensure on real time the performance of embedded systems. Multi-function cameras mean that only certain softwares are activated and that the treatment is made on a local mode (System on Chip !).The connectivity will be made inside the car through a communication hub. This is being investigated in one of our labs (CEA-LETI in Grenoble). Cars will be able too to talk to each other for safety warnings. For me, Car2Car initiative is the most structured one in the automotive industry today
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