Mouser Electronics expands its comprehensive Autonomous Vehicle (AV) resource centre focused on the system architectures and design constraints shaping production-ready autonomy. The hub examines how sensing, in-vehicle networking, and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications feed real-time decision systems, and why safety, cybersecurity, and ethical edge cases increasingly define what ‘deployable’ means in the field.
For widespread, real-world deployment of autonomous vehicles, engineers must balance deterministic performance, functional safety, and cybersecurity while ensuring they can make safe and ethical decisions on the road. Robotaxi services have clearly illustrated the challenges of real-world use with continued technical barriers. To address these issues, AV designers are integrating high-bandwidth sensing, in-vehicle networking, and continuous over-the-air (OTA) software updates into architectures that can be certified, serviced, and evolved over time. These pressures are accelerating the move toward software-defined vehicles and zonal architectures, which separate sensing and actuation from centralised compute to reduce wiring complexity, improve fault isolation, and enable modular system evolution beyond initial deployment.
Developed with input from Mouser’s technical team and trusted manufacturer partners, the AV Resource Hub provides a curated library of articles, blogs, eBooks, and product information designed to help engineers evaluate real-world deployment tradeoffs. Topics span perception and sensor fusion, deterministic networking, functional safety and cybersecurity, ethical decision logic, and regulatory considerations, framed through the lens of practical system integration rather than lab-only performance.
For the newest products, Mouser stocks the industry’s widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, including the newest solutions for autonomous vehicle applications. Here are a few examples:
- The DP83TC817S-Q1 by Texas Instruments is an automotive Ethernet transceiver supporting single-pair Ethernet over unshielded twisted-pair cable, with xMII interface flexibility, Open Alliance EMC compliance, integrated IEEE 802.1AE security, plus an OA TC-10 low-power sleep with wake forwarding to reduce system power consumption. Housed in a 6× 6 mm VQFN package compatible with TI 100BASE-T1 and 1000BASE-T1 PHY footprints, it enables scalable designs for ADAS, body electronics, and telematics applications.
- The S32E2 real-time processors from NXP Semiconductors are a 16nm automotive processor family designed for software-defined vehicles, offering ASIL D functional safety and ISO/SAE 21434 certified cybersecurity, with support for AUTOSAR, Zephyr, and FreeRTOS. It integrates eight Arm Cortex-R52 cores (up to 1GHz), a TSN-enabled gigabit Ethernet switch, 19MB of SRAM, and up to 64MB of Flash, enabling scalable control applications, including xEV systems, BMS, BLDC motor control, and automotive zone controllers.
- The MCP998x automotive temperature sensors from Microchip Technology offer up to five monitoring channels with 1°C accuracy, a 1.7–3.6V supply range, and hardware-set shutdown thresholds that cannot be overridden by software, making them well-suited for safety-critical thermal management applications.
- The NanoMQS 0.50mm miniaturised connector system by TE Connectivity is a Micro Quadlok System (MQS) solution that reduces PCB footprint by up to 50% while supporting 6A of current. It features a 1.8mm pitch, locking lance terminals with primary and secondary contact locking, audible CPA, and LV214/USCAR compliance for secure, vibration-resistant connections. The system supports round-wire and FFC/FPC terminations and is ideal for space-constrained applications, such as battery management units, ECUs, airbags, and black box systems.
