8th International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications
Berlin, March 25-26, 2004

Over the past years enormous progress has been made in the microsystems area in transforming research results into marketable products. Nearly all economic sectors did benefit from these developments. Automobiles today are inconceivable without microsystems. New and improved functions in the car related to safety, performance, comfort and emission reduction - being in many cases the unique selling propositions of a new automobile product - are in the majority of cases based on microsystems. ABS, break assistance, stability control and further safety features, applications in air-condition systems, powertrain and engine management are only some examples for the indispensable role of microsystems in automobiles. Microsystems and their underlying technologies are in many cases even the driving forces in order to satisfy new customers' requirements.

Topics of AMAA 2004 are:

• Safety
  All aspects of preventive and protective safety (e.g. accident avoidance, pre- and after-crash actions)
• Powertrain
  Online measurement and control of engine and transmission subsystems (e.g. motor management, fuel economy, traction control)
• Comfort and HMI
  Systems to enhance the comfort of passengers and human machine interface issues (e.g. seat, climate control, driver assistance, new forms of communicating to the driver)
• Networked Vehicle
  All aspects of intra-car systems and ambient communication (e.g. internal networks, system architecture, spontaneous networks)