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Reimagining the vehicle of the future

EE Times Current · 25 Mar 2022 · 47m

What this episode covers

Ryan Manack, director of Automotive Systems Worldwide at Texas Instruments, discusses how vehicle electrification enables a complete reimagining of automotive architecture, moving from domain control to centralized zone control. He details the shift toward lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery chemistries, which necessitates high-accuracy battery monitors and wireless BMS solutions to manage cell balancing and state-of-charge. Manack also highlights the adoption of wide-bandgap semiconductors like gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) to increase switching frequencies, reduce magnetics size, and integrate power management components like the UCC14240-Q1 isolated gate driver.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

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Mentioned

Companies
Texas Instruments, NVIDIA, GM, Tesla, Toyota
Chips
UCC14240-Q1, GaN, SiC, Hopper
Also
LFP

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