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Special Reports
From electronic mirrors to predictive perception: how cameras, silicon, connectivity and AI are reshaping the intelligent vehicle. Automotive cameras have moved from simple reversing aids to the main source of meaning in ADAS perception: lanes, signs, traffic lights and road users. Over five overlapping generations they went from one camera serving one function to many cameras feeding a central AI platform alongside radar and LiDAR. The next …
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Murugavel Ganesan
October 28, 2026
Tutorials
Automotive electronics work as one control loop: sensors measure what is happening in and around the car, microcontrollers and processors decide what to do, vehicle networks carry the data and commands, and actuators and power electronics carry out the decision. In an electric vehicle the same electronics also convert and manage the energy that moves the car. No single part is useful on its own; reliability comes from designing the whole chain t…
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The Editor's Desk
October 26, 2026
Top 50
The hardest part of automotive edge AI is not the chip itself but everything around it: power and heat in a sealed enclosure, safety certification of models that do not behave deterministically, security of over-the-air updates, and the cost of putting data-centre class compute into a mass-market car. Implementing edge AI in a vehicle is not just about fitting a faster processor; it means rebuilding the vehicle architecture so the car acts as a …
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Murugavel Ganesan
February 02, 2026
News
Tesla started its robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, on 22 June 2025 with a small, invite-only fleet of Model Y cars running its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software, with no one in the driver's seat but a Tesla safety monitor in the front passenger seat. Rides cost a flat $4.20. It was a limited pilot, not a driverless service at scale, but it marked Tesla's move from selling driver assistance to operating an autonomous ride-hailing service…
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Murugavel Ganesan
June 23, 2025
Tutorials
An automotive Edge ECU (Electronic Control Unit) is a controller placed at the edge of a vehicle's network, close to the sensors and actuators it serves, that processes data locally instead of sending everything raw to a central computer. It is usually part of a zonal or distributed architecture. By handling time-critical functions on the spot and sending only results upstream, it cuts latency and network load, at the cost of more local comp…
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Murugavel Ganesan
June 16, 2025
SerDes
Image courtesy: MIPI Alliance/Various LiDAR and RADAR can use the MIPI Camera Serial Interface 2 (CSI-2) because CSI-2 is, at heart, a packet protocol with generic and user-defined data types, not only a pixel pipe. The sensor's front end or controller packs its samples, detections or point cloud into CSI-2 long packets, sends them over a D-PHY or C-PHY link (or over a SerDes such as MIPI A-PHY when the sensor is metres away from the pro…
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Murugavel Ganesan
June 11, 2025
