Energy and Supply Concepts for Automated Driving

Automated driving faces many challenges until its legal and actual deployment. The power distribution of the electric powered functions is a key enabler for automated driving. It has to be fail operational. Several diagnosis tasks, supply sources and switches at key positions have to be implemented to achieve fail-operation-ability for the different levels of automation. This leads to a higher complexity of the electronic circuitry of the switches. Concepts for the power distribution and the electronic circuitry for a semiconductor switch are being shown.