Free eBook explores in-vehicle networking’s future
The average family car in 1948 had about 55 wires totaling 150 feet long. Today’s vehicles? Some luxury models contain almost a mile of wiring.
Tomorrow’s passenger vehicle is rapidly becoming an electronic/electrical (E/E) architecture tour de force, an IoT network on wheels.
That’s why simplified, standardized in-vehicle networking technology is taking center stage as automakers continue to add new, more complex features.
In a near complete departure from the way vehicles are designed today, the auto industry is moving toward zonal E/E architecture to accomplish much more in condensed space.
The Internet of Things (IoT) may be a complex data communications environment, but it’s got nothing on today’s vehicles that cram an entire industrial IoT network into a package less than 15 feet long.
Today’s car networks include at least 80 electronic control units, up to 100 sensors and more than 50 pounds of copper wiring that in luxury cars can consist of 1,500 copper wires totaling a mile long. The entire wiring harness weighs more than 100 pounds, the heaviest part of the vehicle after the engine and chassis.
Drastic E/E architecture changes will be needed to keep up with it all. And EMI challenges will continue apace.
Avnet’s free eBook, IN-VEHICLE NETWORKING: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN DESIGN, FROM NETWORKING PROTOCOLS TO EMI ISSUES, examines some of the biggest issues emerging around in-vehicle networks, their impact on design and new considerations for engineers.
In addition, we invite you to watch a free webinar replay to learn more about the future of IVNs.
Specifically, we examine the following questions:
- What are the implications of a new E/E architecture for in-vehicle networking? Will simplification and extensions to current networking technologies be enough? And what’s next on the horizon?
- As the demand for higher bandwidth and speeds of in-vehicle networking continues apace, controller area network CAN and automotive Ethernet continue to evolve. How do they differ and how are they similar? Are they complementary or competitive? And what does the future hold as industry begins to eye even higher speeds?
- EMI has long been a bugaboo for design engineers, and with the electrical content in vehicles only increasing, how much of a challenge will it be for engineers in the future?
Fortunately, the auto industry is taking steps to solve all these puzzles, revolutionizing the way they build vehicles and manage E/E architectures. Explore the details in our free eBook.
