ON Semiconductor has launched three new products targeted at the automotive market sector at Electronica 2010.
 
The new NCV7321 is a fully featured local interconnect network (LIN) transceiver designed to interface between a LIN protocol controller and the physical bus in low data rate in-vehicle networking (IVN) applications.

NCV7608 is an octal configurable low-side / high-side driver. The compact AEC Q10X-12 (rev.A) qualified SOIC-28W packaged device is able to operate at junction temperatures ranging from -40 °C to +150 °C. With a wide input voltage range of 3.15 V to 5.25 V, and eight fully independent output drivers that can be configured in any combination of high-side, low-side, or half-bridge configurations, the NCV7608 offers maximum flexibility to designers tasked with driving a large number of loads.
 
Finally, it has announced the development of the NCV786xx Power Ballast and Dual LED Driver product platform for advanced LED front lighting systems. Developed to support system level requirements for driving multiple LED strings of up to 60 V, PWM dimming to maintain LED color temperature, and controlled average current, the product platform enables designers to control high and low beams, daytime running lights, turn indicators, and fog lights with one system-on-chip device. The platform allows communication with an external microcontroller to change operating parameters after power-up, implement LED-short detection, and provide advanced system diagnostics.
 
The first product – the NCV78663 - will be released to market in 2011.All three devices support current and next generation body electronics applications.

The product platform will be presented in a conference paper - “Highly efficient system-on-chip LED driver for automotive front lighting” - in the Automotive Forum at Electronica.

Automotive Sector Demonstrations at Electronica
The automotive area of the company’s stand at Electronica will address the company’s latest solutions for LED vehicle lighting (front, rear and interior), fuel efficiency and sensing (for gasoline, diesel, hybrid and electric vehicles) and infotainment power delivery and connectivity. Demonstrations will clearly show the benefits of the company’s semiconductor solutions in working products. Company experts will also be available to discuss custom automotive ASICs for the vehicle market.