Keysight joins Silicon Valley’s Autotech Council

Feb. 10, 2017

Santa Rosa, CA. Keysight Technologies announced it has joined Silicon Valley’s Autotech Council. The council is an industry-leading automotive consortium, comprising forward-thinking auto manufacturers, major supply chain partners, startups, and investors.

The council is focused on facilitating awareness of new innovations, developing a better understanding of emerging technology’s potential impact and timing, building partnerships, working with entrepreneurs and investors, and getting better automotive technologies to market faster.

Autotech Council members were invited to attend a meeting in December, hosted by Keysight Technologies at its Santa Clara office. Guests had the opportunity to witness first-hand some of Keysight’s automotive electronics design and test solutions for various innovation domains, including connected-car, automotive-radar, power-device, and battery technologies, as well as EV/HEV and functional test.

“We are excited to establish Keysight’s presence where the innovations are taking place,” said Siegfried Gross, vice president and general manager of Keysight’s Automotive and Energy Solutions business unit.

“As a member, Keysight is positioned to share its insights and best practices in automotive design and test technologies among the industry leaders, enabling us to actively engage with them and foster cooperation to advance the next-generation developments in this exciting and fast-growing market. With the convergence of many innovations for safer, energy-efficient, and convenient vehicles, Keysight is dedicated to providing reliable and complete end-to-end automotive and energy solutions,” Siegfried added.

“Silicon Valley is a growing hub of automotive innovation as evidenced by the 25 car makers who now have a presence here,” said Liz Kerton, executive director of the Autotech Council. “The automotive innovation ecosystem locally is happy to welcome Keysight and confident they will contribute to our efforts to get better technology into the transportation sector faster.”

About Keysight Automotive and Energy Solutions

Keysight works with the world’s leading automotive electronics companies throughout the automotive ecosystem—helping them drive their innovations, from design, to test, to market—faster, and at a lower cost. Technologies includes wireless, 5G, RF, millimeter-wave, automotive Ethernet, high-speed-digital, optic, power component, power conversion, battery, and EV/HEV, functional test.

www.keysight.com/find/automotive

About Autotech Council

Visionary companies in the auto industry use the Autotech Council to discover innovation, build partnerships, exchange insight, and grow their professional networks. The result is earlier discovery of new innovation, better understanding of technology’s potential impact and timing, access to more entrepreneurs and investors, and in the big picture—getting better cars to market faster.

www.autotechcouncil.com

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Rick Nelson | Contributing Editor

Rick is currently Contributing Technical Editor. He was Executive Editor for EE in 2011-2018. Previously he served on several publications, including EDN and Vision Systems Design, and has received awards for signed editorials from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. He began as a design engineer at General Electric and Litton Industries and earned a BSEE degree from Penn State.

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