Use Receiver Testing to Improve Automotive In-Vehicle Network Performance
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As the industry shifts to producing fully autonomous and all-electric vehicles, cars’ electronic architectures are becoming more complex. Sensors and the controls and interfaces between them are growing in number and expanding functionality.
As in-vehicle electronics expands, cars now handle more sensors, controls, and interfaces than five or ten years ago. Modern vehicles now include many applications that will add even more complexity over time. These applications require higher bandwidth, faster data transfer times, and more reliable networks.
The consolidation of functionalities within a zone or domain architecture results in fewer total processing nodes, even as the complexity of each node scales up. Each electronic control unit (ECU) or gateway can provide more processing capabilities with access to several different inputs / outputs (IOs). The data the sensors and electronics gather must be transferred to the main CPU precisely and quickly as a vehicle transitions to more autonomous operations.