Today’s vehicles, whether driven by batteries or fossil fuels, integrate the latest electronics in their infotainment, vehicle management, and communication systems. To ensure optimal performance in such a noisy electronic environment, the latest materials and processes for EMI and RF shielding and/or absorbing and protection need to be implemented.
Device convergence and function integration is both helping
and challenging engineers in vehicle design. Sensor fusion
and advanced highly-integrated microcontrollers and chip
scale packages with integrated power and wireless capa-
bilities help cram more functionality into a given space, but
require proper RF and EMI shielding in order to ensure ac-
curate and reliable operation.
On the driver and passenger side, vehicle infotainment sys-
tems are becoming more and more complex, with high lev-
els of functionality and system integration. Not only must
these systems be protected against EMI and RF interfer-
ence, any electronic noise they generate also must be pre-
vented from impacting other subsystems in the vehicle. All
these issues must be addressed while making the various
solutions smaller, lighter, and more functional.