A Long-Range Look at Semiconductor Development And Its Impact on Automotive Electronics 741228
To ensure cost-effectiveness, automotive industry solid-state device requirements, a small percentage of total U.S. consumption, will be met through custom designs using technologies applicable to non-automotive applications as well. N-MOS and complementary-MOS technologies with their cost and performance advantages and smaller size will prevail in digital signal processing; bipolar IC's plus IC's combining bipolar and MOS technologies on the same chip will be used for linear signal processing. Multiple-epitaxial structured silicon power devices will be used as actuator drivers. The reliability/cost equation will be solved by using buffered power sources to permit use of custom-designed low-voltage IC signal-processing circuits. Power devices having device characteristics that can withstand the high voltage transients will provide the interface between the low-level signal processing and actuator drivers. As the number of applications increases, both power devices and IC's will be packaged in plastic packages as operating environments permit and basic die-construction improvements are effected.
Citation: Vonderschmitt, B., "A Long-Range Look at Semiconductor Development And Its Impact on Automotive Electronics," SAE Technical Paper 741228, 1974, https://doi.org/10.4271/741228. Download Citation
Author(s):
B. V. Vonderschmitt
Pages: 13
Event:
International Colloquium on Automotive Electronic Technology
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
High voltage systems
Vehicle drivers
Sensors and actuators
Plastics
Semiconductors
Logistics
Reliability
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