The Automotive Gauge Board Will Have A Great Change

Published:2011/5/9 3:28:00 Author:Li xiao na From:SeekIC

The traditional gauge board is the important part of automobile, which has a great change recently. The main reasons are shown in the below part of my article. In the field of LCD, graphic processor and controller, sensor and LED module, the display and semiconductor technology can gain the reasonable price. The new functions and applications are introduced in the car through entertainment, navigation, ADAS and diagnostic system。 Although the multifunctional stereo has the main display function, the gauge board is able to provide the assistant screen to the driver; especially to be used for displaying the multimedia content.

For the people in OEM, safety is the important goal that they are pursuing. In order to provide the readable data by the human-machine interface, people in OEM are trying their best to solve the problem of distraction. The digital technology and LCD display integrated in the gauge board will provide the appropriate and easy solution to meet the demand of customers. With the above technologies, OEM will have the new opportunities to implement the diversification and custom of products and leave the mark with its own style. Moreover, with the integration of function, system integrators should use the scalable modular way, which will reduce the developing time and cost.

Some semiconductor suppliers are trying to enter the digital gauge board field with the advanced graphic capability, such as FUJITSU and Freescale. FUJITSU has released the next generation gauge board thought and provided several products. The action of FUJITSU is fit in with the tendency of Japanese suppliers who pay much attention on the advanced solutions of technique. FUJITSU implements the differentiation of the gauge board by the scalable construction. Its solutions cover the different kinds of configuration from the economic type to luxury type.

Freescale has also shown the interest for this industry and declared that it is necessary to update the function. This company pays much attention on the solution with high performance, which is different from FUJITSU. Freescale is trying to know the key elements which influence cost; therefore, it sets its sight on the method of special sectional frame buffer. This method aims at reducing the bill of material. The new picture microcontroller MPC5606S, which is released by Freescale recently, has applied this method.

It is predicated by the HIS ISuppli, the usability rate of the hybrid analog/digital gauge board can be seventy percent in the year of 2011. The related integrated circuit is ZC5330.

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