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Overview:
At the recent Embedded Systems Conference, EE Times, Techonline and Embedded Systems Design partnered with Munro & Associates and Portelligent to purchase and rip apart a Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle. Not just for the fun of it-and it was a lot of fun-but with a mission in mind: To uncover the electrical and electronic subsystems and components within that go to make up one of the most advanced energy-efficient vehicles to date.
What the teardown specialists uncovered was at one level surprising, for a number of reasons, but on another level, the component choices made by Toyota were almost conventional, which is to be expected given the environmental, reliability and performance requirements of any modern automobile.
During the course of the teardown, it became clear that six subsystems were of particular interest: the inverter/converter, the user-interface/dash module, the engine control module (ECM), the navigation/display system, the airbag control module, and the anti-skid system. The first three will be highlighted in the up-coming Under the Hood supplement, presented by Times and Techonline and will be shown here at www.techonline.com/underthehood. The last three are the subject of this OnDemand Seminar.
Use this On-Demand seminar to explore:
- Why analog components are so critical to the Prius's design
- What it takes to get an airbag module to perform its violent duties precisely
- How an anti-skid system works and what's needed to make it perform
- How information should be displayed in a cutting-edge vehicle
- And much more!
Who should attend:
Designers of high-power, high-reliability systems and subsystems, in particular environmentally friendly systems based on regenerative approaches.
Presenter:
David Carey
David Carey is President of Portelligent. The Austin, Texas company produces teardown reports and related industry research on Wireless, Mobile, and Personal Electronics. (www.teardown.com)
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