The power technology in lamps and windshield wipers today are really quite sophisticated. It is under the control of the microcontroller, which tells it how much power to allow. Rather than just turn on, it says 'I know this load on this lamp to be 4A,' and if the load exceeds that value, the lamp will turn off immediately. A traditional relay control would just turn it on, despite the short, and would burn up. Then you would have to buy all kinds of expensive pieces instead of replacing a bulb or a small wire.
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AMT is clever. The real key is remote management. It integrates into the platform. A microcontroller allows an administrator to wake the system up, even when it's lights out.
Moving forward, the objective of the EEMBC automotive and industrial subcommittee is to develop a powerful benchmark suite that can specify and measure performance and energy between all the components in these complex systems, and help each partner improve its products to push the limits of automotive systems. Patrick's unique combination of education and experience has perfectly positioned him to lead this subcommittee as we strive to develop a benchmark recognized by automotive vendors worldwide for its efficacy in measuring the performance of every component in automotive applications including microcontroller cores, buses, peripherals, memory, compilers, profilers, operating systems, SW drivers, and auto-code generators.
When we said we would sign up multiple microcontroller partners, it raised an important issue, since we're a tiny company. We had the specific discussion of eliminating OEM sales in favor of partnering with chip suppliers, but the coprocessor market appeared to have a long enough life to justify our offering products like the EM260 independently.