Automotive Electronics Protection

It’s no secret that automotive electronics must withstand challenging conditions: wide temperature ranges, humidity, corrosion, shock and vibration, to name a few. A multitude of factors can affect the quality of intra-vehicle electrical connections and electrical insulation.

For circuit protection in automotive applications, Microsemi offers high-reliability, high-performance TVS diodes, high-voltage stack diodes, and automotive sensors.

Explore Microsemi’s product portfolio for body electronics:

• TVS diodes
• High-voltage stack diodes

For over five decades, Microsemi has delivered an extensive portfolio of military and space grade components incorporating high reliability, supported through strenuously disciplined manufacturing processes, standardized qualification tests, 100% part screening and ongoing periodic group testing to ensure manufacturing process consistency.

Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right products for your automotive body electronics needs. 

Protecting Automotive Circuity with TVS Diodes

Protecting car electronics from transient surges and other electrical hazards poses one of the largest challenges in automotive systems designs. Microsemi delivers high-reliability protection for automotive electronics with its field-proven family of transient voltage suppressor (TVS) diodes. Microsemi’s rigorous high-reliability TVS qualification program is based on a combination of MIL-PRF-19500 military standards, AEC-Q101 qualification tests for automotive and NASA PEM-INST-001.

Explore Microsemi's family of TVS diodes for protecting your automotive electronics systems.

Microsemi's TVS diodes can be used in a variety of automotive circuit protection applications including:

• Active suspension
• Air bag
• Anti-lock braking system (ABS)
• Body control
• Car audio
• Cluster panel
• Engine management
• Exhaust gas detector
• Heat control
• HID car lights
• Keyless entry
• LED indicator
• Memory seat
• Power steering
• Wiper control
• Tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS)

Microsemi offers one of the industry’s most comprehensive discrete IC product portfolios. In addition to the transient voltage suppressors, Microsemi’s offering includes diodes and modules, passive devices, rectifiers and bridges, regulators, solid-state rad-hard relays, transistors, silicon carbide (SiC) modules and MOSFETs.

For over 50 years, Microsemi has supplied an extensive portfolio of military and space grade components incorporating high reliability, supported through strenuously disciplined manufacturing processes, standardized qualification tests, 100% part screening and ongoing periodic group testing to ensure manufacturing process consistency.

Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right products for your automotive electronics needs. 

Stack Diodes for Automotive Circuit Protection

For your automotive circuit protection requirements, Microsemi also offers a range of high-performance high-voltage (HV) stack diodes. Microsemi’s stack diode devices are ideal for a variety of automotive circuity protection including ignition systems, high voltage coils and battery charging.

Explore Microsemi's family of HV stack diodes for your automotive electronics design needs.

Microsemi offers one of the industry’s most comprehensive discrete IC product portfolios. In addition to the transient voltage suppressors, Microsemi’s offering includes diodes and modules, passive devices, rectifiers and bridges, regulators, solid-state rad-hard relays, transistors, silicon carbide (SiC) modules and MOSFETs.

For over 50 years, Microsemi has supplied an extensive portfolio of military and space grade components incorporating high reliability, supported through strenuously disciplined manufacturing processes, standardized qualification tests, 100% part screening and ongoing periodic group testing to ensure manufacturing process consistency.

Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right products for your automotive body electronics needs. 

Automotive Sensors

Microsemi has been shipping automotive sensor ICs in volume since 2010, delivering precision analog front end (AFE) custom products for pedals, steering and active suspension, as well as MCU-based motion measurement.

Industry data forecasts global shipments of new light vehicles to reach 110 million by 2020, growing from nearly 85 million in 2014. Sensors are key elements in the feedback loop of any control system. While current cars average 60-100 on-board sensors, this number is projected to potentially more than double as cars become increasingly “smart” and connected. This translates to a projected 22 billion sensors used on-board vehicles by 2020.

The LX3301A and LX3302 are the first members of Microsemi’s advanced microcontroller-based sensor interface IC family are ideal for a variety of automotive sub-systems such as pedals, engine, gearbox and steering wheel. Microsemi’s inductive sensors deliver higher precision, higher reliability and lower cost than hall-effect sensors. Microsemi also offers the industry’s only turnkey, fully integrated solution with sensor interface, MCU and firmware.

Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right products for your automotive body electronics needs.