Automotive Designs Accelerate Demand For Passive Components

摘要

Time and again, it has been said that the automotive world presents electrical engineers with some of the most daunting design challenges. To begin with, automotive electronic assemblies must be built to last. Members of the industry speak of designing components to last for 10 years and 150,000 miles, and in some very harsh environments. When placed under the hood, equipment might be faced with ambient temperatures reaching widely varying extremes—from as low as -55 ℃ to as high as 150 ℃ (Fig. 1). Conditions are even worse for devices mounted to the wheel.