Increase in Automotive Electronics Drives Need for Sophisticated Test Equipment

As the auto industry gathers this week for the Society of Automotive Engineers conference in Detroit, the large number of electronics companies exhibiting there is a sign of the times. In less than 15 years, automobiles have been radically transformed from purely mechanical machines into sophisticated, hybrid mechanical-plus-electrical machines. So significant has the transformation been that NASA's space shuttle has less processing performance than some of today's high-end vehicles have in their engine controllers alone!