Course descriptions for track 1

Attend one of the technical sessions to learn more about the next innovative technologies and solutions.

High performance and robust battery management solutions for new energy vehicles

Time: 9:00AM - 10:00AM

This training will review battery management system and battery safety switch trends and solutions across a span of voltage levels targeted for New Energy Vehicles (NEV). We will introduce technologies used across the industry in NEV batteries as well as solutions to challenges such as robust communication, hot plugging and accurate voltage monitoring. This training will focus on high voltage (400-800V) battery management systems (BMS) and 48V mild-hybrid BMS with a mention of solutions for Li-Ion BMS in the 12V domain (Lead-Acid replacement). It will cover solutions for silicon replacement of battery switch relays and new gate driver solutions for these switches. We will discuss the different BMS topologies along with important considerations for each that help lead to robust designs. We will also give a brief overview of chip level features that are critical to system functional safety. Lastly we will introduce the latest trends we see in the future of BMS focusing on new communication strategies.

Mathew has over 15 years’ experience in product management, technology commercialization and business development in technology industries in Europe, Asia and North America. Mathew now works in Infineon’s Powertrain and EV segment team driving business growth in Traction Inverter and Battery Management applications. Mathew has previously held product marketing roles for Microcontrollers at Infineon and led a team responsible for identifying and assessing emerging technology development opportunities in Canada. Mathew holds a Master of Engineering Degree in Embedded Systems Design from Switzerland and Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from India.

Phil Gilreath has 14 years of experience in automotive electronics over a wide range of applications. He has spent the majority of his career at large Tier 1 organizations with electronic design responsibility for various products covering body, safety (air bag and camera), powertrain, and chassis/braking applications. This breadth of knowledge across multiple electronics applications led Phil to shift his career path into automotive semiconductors in 2016 where he has since enjoyed working with Tier 1 customers in his new capacity as a system application engineer. Phil now works in Infineon’s Powertrain and xEV team supporting Traction Inverter and Battery Management applications. Phil holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Detroit Mercy.

The first step into HW supported automotive artificial intelligence - system modelling in microcontrollers

Time: 10:30AM - 11:45AM

Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques are not new to powertrain or other automotive applications, it is now possible to model bigger multi-dimensional  transfer functions easier with the ETAS ASCMO tool and run these models much faster on the AURIX 2nd generation with the so called AMU (Advanced Modelling Unit). This presentation will give an introduction to the ASCMO tool and the handling of the model within the AURIX 2nd Generation. We will also share the performance data.

Attendees will learn:

  • The functionality and capability of the ASCMO tool
  • Applications which can be addressed with the RBF modelling
  • The implementation of the system model with the AMU
  • Performance numbers to help identify customer specific applications

Atilla Bulmus is Microcontroller System Application Engineer for Powertrain Application for Infineon in Livonia since 2011. In his almost twenty year career at Infineon he first gained deep insight of the chip development and later shifted his focus on the application for mobile phone business and afterwards automotive powertrain/safety applications. His focus are new HW features developed for current and upcoming complex control algorithms.  

Tobias Gutjahr is a program manager at ETAS for measurement, calibration and diagnostics solutions. He has been with ETAS for 10 years and worked in the areas of advanced engine calibration and hardware-in-the-loop systems prior to his current position. Tobias holds a Masters and PhD degree in Computer Engineering.

Sensing the world; different technologies for different sensing needs

Time: 12:30PM - 1:30PM

Smart technology is often equated with higher cost and complexity, but truly smart sensing technology must provide value...or it isn't very smart at all. In this session we will review how magnetic sensing technology has progressed, and why. We’ll identify the latest system level considerations driving Infineon's sensor portfolio, and the value proposition these devices offer evolving automotive applications.

James Sterling is a Principal Engineer for Infineon Technologies North America. Prior to joining Infineon in 2007, he worked in product development roles with Tier-1 suppliers of magnetic sensors for automotive and industrial applications, and in engineering roles at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. James holds degrees in Physical Science and Physics from Michigan State University.

Security hardening for an automotive electronic control unit

Time: 2:00PM - 3:15PM

This training will focus on using hardware and software to reduce system vulnerabilities and increase robustness of an automotive electronic control unit against an attacker. We will explore a number of techniques making full use of hardware features available in microcontrollers, with some practical examples from AURIX™. We will uncover how and why you need a Hardware Security Module (HSM) along with other measures to create a root of trust.

Explore methods to strengthen your application while adding fast secure boot (authenticated boot), secure onboard communications (SecOC), and software over-the-air updates (SOTA).

Jeff Kelley is a Sr. Manager in Infineon’s Product Marketing Engineering Team, and he works in the Automotive Group supporting Microcontrollers and Power solutions for Gateways, Cybersecurity and Autonomous Vehicles.  Jeff collaborates with Infineon’s other security products teams on TPMs, V2x/C2C signature generation, wireless charging and security for vehicle networks.  Jeff has more than 30 years in electronics industry, which includes designs for high power and consumer products.  He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Chris Wunderlich is a Principal System Application Engineer at Infineon where he works in the Automotive Group supporting Microcontrollers for Connectivity and Security. He has 26+ years designing and supporting embedded systems. He has written papers, published articles, application notes, and has 5 US patents.  Chris has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Lawrence Technological University.

How to better understand root cause and prevent re-occurrence for EIPD/EOS cases

Are you struggling with EIPD (Electrical Induced Physical Damage) / EOS (Electrical OverStress) case closures? You are not alone!
This training will cover:

  • The differences between EIPD and EOS
  • Proper Failure Analysis
  • Infineon's years of experience with data collection and mapping failure signatures
  • EIPD/EOS lessons learned 
  • Information from consortia USCAR (USA) and VDA (Germany).

Attendees will learn:

  • The Infineon and industry support process and guidelines from industry consortia.

Director, Quality for the Automotive Americas customers

Professional career path:

  • Test development for MOSFET, IGBTs Diodes on wafer and package level
  • ATV product qualification for 16/32bit micro controller devices
  • Set up of first IFX regional Failure Analysis lab in Livonia
  • Failure Analysis lab manager Livonia

Current:

  • ATV Customer quality support (complaint management / customer approval process) for the Americas region
  • Core member of the EIPD USCAR initiative

Customer Quality Manager, Automotive Americas
Location: Livonia

Professional career path:
Failure analysis manager at Infineon Wuxi Plant
Failure analysis engineer at Infineon Livonia lab

Current:
ATV Customer quality support - Americas region (complaint management / customer approval process)

Professional career path:
Graduated on Electronic and Mechanical Engineering in Malaysia
EOL (Malacca) Production Line as TPM Maintenance Specialist
Failure analysis engineer at Infineon Livonia lab

EIPD/EOS Customer Support and Back End Training to North Americas customers

Current:
ATV Failure Analysis & EIPD/EOS Customer support - Americas region