It fascinates me when we ship products in numbers that exceed the number of humans on the planet. The stats you’re giving mean that the average man, woman, and child in the western world probably has a double-digit number of microcontrollers.
Most of them don’t even know they have any at all.
 Tailor-made gateway processors lay the groundwork for zone architecturesSponsored by Texas Instruments Automotive suppliers and original equipment manufacturers are heavily investing software R&D efforts on adding new functions and features to achieve autonomy, electrification and connectivity. Still, enabling these functions by adding more electronic control units (ECUs) is not sustainable when it results in increased complexity and cost. There are two ways to consolidate and streamline ECUs within a vehicle… |
