Automotive
Automotive Solutions
Enabling the Future of Mobility
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Body Electronics
Providing comfort, convenience, safety and security to the driver and other occupants is the main function of body electronics systems. From accessing and starting the vehicle to controlling seats, mirrors and the interior climate, these systems play an important
role in ensuring a safe, comfortable journey.
Microchip can help you design body electronics systems with a wide variety of solutions for car access, networking and connectivity, power management and more. Our advanced technologies provide designers with the tools needed to develop body
electronics systems for ease of use and reliable control of the vehicle’s interior environment.
Microchip’s Key Technology Solutions for Body Electronics
Car Access
As an industry leader in car access solutions, Microchip
provides all the products and tools necessary for developing reliable and secure passive entry and start applications.
Our portfolio of RF and LF transmitters, receivers and
transceivers complement our low-power microcontroller
families needed for advanced car access systems.
Power Management
With sensors and actuators distributed throughout the vehicle, power management becomes a critical component
of body electronics systems. Microchip’s automotive-grade
voltage regulators and output drivers provide designers
with power management solutions that are key to powerefficient and reliable embedded control systems.
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Signal Conditioning
Body electronics systems rely upon several inputs from the
driver and the vehicle to control many different components
inside the vehicle. Our broad portfolio of signal conditioning products provide solutions for signal filtering, sensing,
amplifying, detecting and shaping within these systems.
Networking and Connectivity
One of the key components of body electronics systems
is the connectivity to sensors, motors and actuators, and
other systems within the vehicle. Microchip’s lineup of
networking and connectivity solutions such as LIN, CAN
and Ethernet, provide the means necessary for connecting
all these components within the vehicle.
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Infotainment
The in-vehicle experience keeps evolving as new and innovative ways of informing and entertaining the driver and passengers
emerge. At the heart of any journey, infotainment applications provide critical data to the driver in order to make more informed
decisions. Likewise, they provide entertainment choices to all occupants for a more enjoyable and relaxing journey. As vehicles
continue to advance into becoming data centers on wheels, infotainment systems become just as important as those attributed to
powering, controlling and protecting the vehicle and its occupants.
Designing a wide variety of infotainment systems is easy with Microchip’s advanced portfolio of networking and connectivity,
touch, cybersecurity and analog solutions. These solutions provide the means to distribute data and various forms of media
throughout the vehicle as well as to occupants during the journey in quick, reliable and secure ways.
Microchip’s Key Technology Solutions for Infotainment
Networking and Connectivity
A variety of communication protocols and solutions are
needed for advanced infotainment systems. Connecting
audio/video components within the vehicle and to the
external world can be achieved with Microchip’s portfolio
of Ethernet, USB, INICnet™, CAN and LIN networking and
connectivity solutions.
Cybersecurity
Protecting the vehicle from cyber attacks is a major focus
for automakers and their suppliers. Infotainment systems
are especially vulnerable as they connect with numerous
systems inside and outside the vehicle. Our automotive
cybersecurity products facilitate the design of secure
infotainment systems that are immune from cyber attacks.
Automotive Solutions
Human-Machine Interface
Advancements in touch control have paved the way for
more sophisticated interfaces between driver and vehicle.
Microchip is the leader for 1D (buttons, sliders and wheels),
2D (touchscreens) and 3D (gesture recognition) touch sensing
solutions for innovative automotive infotainment systems.
Signal Conditioning
With tons of data and various forms of media flowing
throughout infotainment systems, a key requirement is
signal conditioning and control. Microchip’s broad portfolio
of automotive-grade mixed-signal, linear, sensing and
other analog products provide comprehensive solutions for
signal conditioning in these applications.
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HEV/EV/Powertrain
Many advancements for powering a vehicle are taking place as the transition from vehicles powered by internal combustion
engines to various forms of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) and Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) is accelerating. This change will
bring about many new innovations for high-power generation and control. Moving to electric-powered vehicles will bring about an
entirely new ecosystem for mobility that will be substantially different from what is in use today.
With Microchip’s solutions for high-temperature environments, motor control and power management, traditional combustion engine applications can be served. For BEV and HEV, the higher power requirements can be managed with our Silicon Carbide (SiC)
and dsPIC® Digital Signal Controller portfolio. Microchip offers solutions for generating, distributing and managing power internally
and externally for these high-voltage applications that are robust, reliable and secure.
Microchip’s Key Technology Solutions for HEV/EV/Powertrain
High Temperature
Silicon Carbide
Motor Control
Power Management
One of the major challenges for embedded control
systems in internal combustion engines has been designing for high-temperature environments. Microchip offers
a broad lineup of microcontroller, analog, connectivity
and memory products that can operate in these rugged
environments, giving designers much-needed flexibility.
Internal combustion engines rely on various motors and
actuators to control the flow of fluids, valve positions and
perform other functions. Offering digital signal controllers
with motor control peripherals along with analog devices
for motor and MOSFET control, Microchip simplifies
designs of complete motor control systems.
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SiC MOSFETs and diodes are enabling the design of
higher voltage systems for charging, control and propulsion within BEV and HEV. Our lineup of SiC products is
providing many options for embedded control system
designers in these high-voltage applications, for costeffective robust systems.
Whether it’s charging, controlling, distributing or monitoring
high-voltage busses in BEV and HEV, Microchip’s power
management solutions are ideal for these applications.
Digital signal controllers with SMPS peripherals and analog
devices are key components for charging, DC/DC conversion and DC/AC inverting applications.
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Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Although Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have been improving driver safety and control for years, new innovations
in these systems have taken on a much more rapid pace as the drive towards fully autonomous vehicles progresses. ADAS has
changed the way we think about driving decision-making and control, putting more emphasis on intelligence within the vehicle and
taking more and more responsibility away from the driver.
Decision-making is vital for ADAS and the critical components needed for proper decision-making include processing information
quickly, accurately and securely. Microchip’s portfolio of networking and connectivity solutions help provide quick access to data
from sensors, camera and the external infrastructure, and our microprocessor, microcontroller and FPGA solutions help to process
that data quickly and accurately. Data security and integrity can be achieved with our automotive cybersecurity products in order
to prevent cyber attacks or erroneous data calculations.
Microchip’s Key Technology Solutions for ADAS
Networking and Connectivity
CyberSecurity
Timing Solutions
Processing
Real-time decision-making is one of the main criteria when
it comes to effective ADAS performance. To accomplish
this, sensor data and other information must be transmitted
quickly and reliably for timely decisions to take place. Our
solutions for Ethernet, INICnet, CoaXPress®, CAN, LIN and
USB provide the network backbone to accomplish this.
ADAS require highly-reliable timing devices with robust
performance and tight stability under harsh environments.
Microchip offers the industry’s most reliable and robust
clock and oscillator family by leveraging cutting-edge
MEMS technology, advanced Phase-locked Loop (PLL)
design and semiconductor packaging.
Automotive Solutions
Autonomous vehicles are routinely referred to as data centers on wheels. Security is paramount when transmitting
and processing the large amounts of data necessary for
the operation of self-driving vehicles. Microchip’s automotive cybersecurity products provide solutions for encryption, authentication, key storage, secure boot and more.
Microchip’s broad portfolio of high-speed microcontrollers,
microprocessors and field-programmable gate arrays
offers solutions for many types of processing functions in
ADAS applications. Processing sensor data, managing
communications, controlling peripheral devices and serving
housekeeping functions are just a few examples.
www.microchip.com/adas
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Functional Safety
Functional Safety
For a growing number of applications, it is important to minimize the risk of injury caused by electronics that malfunction. The rigorous design practices and fault detection with mitigation requirements of functional safety achieve this goal. In some applications,
these requirements are formalized and mandatory, while in others they are implemented to turn a good product to an excellent
product for differentiation in a competitive market.
Microchip offers a number of products that enable system-level compliance to functional safety. This means that they have
integrated features, qualified test libraries, safety manuals and FMEDA reports, depending on the standard and the level of safety
they support. All these items make it easier to develop applications that conform to the functional safety standards and thereby
reduce the work and cost of the final product compliance.
Functional Safety Ready
A product that contains the “Functional Safety Ready” designation has been carefully selected as one that
encompasses the latest features and support collateral available from Microchip, including integrated safety
features, safety manuals, FMEDA reports and in some cases, diagnostic software. Certain products also
have qualified development tools including TÜV SÜD-certified MPLAB® XC Licenses for Functional Safety for
microcontroller devices.
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Quality
Microchip’s Quality Policy
In order to meet or exceed customer expectations at a reduced cost, we encourage our employees to support continuous
improvement, anticipate problems and implement root cause solutions.
Quality Certifications
Microchip Technology Inc. is an IATF 16949 certified company. Additional certificates include ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.
Quality Management System
Microchip‘s Quality Management System (QMS) serves as the foundation for customer satisfaction and continuous improvement
in all aspects of operation. The QMS is based on a customer-supplier partnership and provides a framework for managing the
activities used to develop and deliver quality products that consistently satisfy customer and other external requirements. This
QMS is deeply rooted in Microchip’s culture, corporate mission, company values, business principles, actions and results. Improvement to the QMS is an ongoing process that cascades throughout Microchip’s organization. Key elements of Microchip’s
Quality Management System are illustrated in the figure below.
Input: External (Customer)/Internal
Business Process - Top Management
Strategic Planning
• Quality Policy
• Quality Objectives
• Organization/Responsibility/Authority
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Document Control
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• Customer Satisfaction Survey
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• New Product Development (product divisions)
• Product Evaluation (qualification, reliability
and on-going reliability)
Context of the Organization
Automotive Solutions
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worldwide network of field applications engineers and technical
support ready to provide product and system assistance. For
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