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Seeing the Big Picture of Vehicle Electrification with Texas Instrument's Fern Yoon

Moore's Lobby · 21 Mar 2023 · 59m · Episode 2

What this episode covers

Fern Yoon, Director of Automotive Systems Engineering and Marketing at Texas Instruments, discusses her career path from thin-film process engineering to leading automotive system solutions. She details how TI’s improved voltage and current sensing accuracy (10x improvement) helps EV manufacturers extend battery range by ~20% and enhance safety through better state-of-health modeling. Yoon also explains the shift in automotive architecture toward zone control and supercomputing, highlighting TI’s solid-state solutions for battery management and active EMI filtering.

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Texas Instruments
Products
Ruggedized Laptop, Ultrasound Systems, RC Car, High Voltage BMS Reference Platform, Active EMI Filter
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University of Texas at Dallas, UT Southwestern

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