Understanding Automotive Electronics

Description

The first six editions of this book were written at a qualitative level in which automotive electronics was explained with minimal mathematics. However, beginning with the seventh edition, this book essentially was written from an engineering perspective that requires analytic models for automotive components and/or subsystems. This edition is an extension of the seventh edition. Topics have been updated with respect to automotive electronic technology, a field that has been evolving rapidly over the past few years. Although this is a major shift in perspective, qualitative discussions of the various topics are included for readers without the requisite mathematical background.

The seventh edition begins with two chapters that provide a review of the basics of system theory, with the first chapter devoted to continuous time and the second to discrete-time system theory. The discrete-time system theory is applicable to digital electronics that is widely used in present-day automotive electronics. Reader feedback indicated that only a subset of readers find the review of system theory necessary to follow the detailed analysis of modern automotive electronic subsystems/components. Therefore, the review of system theory found in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 in the seventh edition have been moved to Appendices A and B in this edition, where they are available to any reader for whom this material is helpful. Whenever a topic involves modeling or analysis based on system theory, reference is made to the appropriate section of the relevant appendix. In addition to some reorganization of the material from the seventh edition, new material has been added to technically update the eighth edition.