Automotive electronics hardware: Overview of automotive-specific discrete passive and active electronic components, sensors, transducers, actuators, contact systems, BUS systems, circuits, typical microprocessors and their circuit configurations. Automotive power electronics: component behaviour, power switching, static and transient power dissipation, power filtering. Introduction to circuit simulation using automotive examples. Automotive-specific electronic packaging basics: printed circuit board layout fundamentals, thermal-, electromagnetic-, environmental-, and manufacturing compliance design. Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis in automotive electronics design.

Automotive electronics software: Embedded software: basic code design and code validation. Automotive product validation. Automotive communication platforms: PWM, LIN, CAN, SPI, etc. Software calibration basics.

Automotive product validation: Validation test plan, mechanical/electrical/environmental testing, troubleshooting methodologies in electromechanical systems.

Control theory basics.

Basics of simulation and modelling used in the automotive industry.