VDI-Buch              
              2007            
            Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2007                   Editors:   

•     Jürgen Valldorf,
•     Wolfgang Gessner
  

            ISBN: 978-3-540-71324-1 (Print) 978-3-540-71325-8  (Online)

About this book

• Microsystems are an important factor that contribute to an automobile model's success and reliability
•                                         Microsystems and their underlying technologies are in many cases even the driving forces in order to satisfy new customers' requirement
•                                         The state-of-art of microsystems in automotive applications is represented in this book
  

From the beginnings of the International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Application (AMAA), enormous progress has been made in reducing casualties, emissions and in increasing comfort and performance. In many cases Microsystems provided key functions for this progress. Although the issues addressed in this 11th AMAA Forum have not changed significantly (safety, powertrain, comfort, etc.), considerable shifts can be stated in technological paradigms and approaches.
There is a coincidence of the AMAA objectives and those of EPoSS, the European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration, contributing intensively to the development of automotive-specific smart systems. You will find a series of the EPoSS items in the programme of the 11th AMAA, which continues to be a unique exchange forum for companies in the automotive value chain.
The publication in hand also reflects these issues. It is a cut-out of new technological priorities in the area of microsystems-based smart devices and opens up a mid-term perspective of future smart systems applications in automobiles.