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46 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I FEBRUARY 2024 ese options target decoupling into the GHz range, leaving PCB designers to focus on the lower end of the frequency range with discrete capacitor selection and PCB stackup design. By working with packaging designers, a team can produce more advanced substrates that maintain power stability up to very high frequencies. DESIGN007 Cody Stetzel is a technical marketing engineer at Cadence Design Systems. This article originally appeared as a blog post on the Cadence Design Systems website. Autonomous driving, electric vehicles, connected and software-defined vehicles, and in-cabin moni- toring are all megatrends reshaping the automo- tive industry. Together, these technologies combine to form a $1.6 trillion opportunity by 2034, nearly a 10-fold increase compared to 2023. The new report from IDTechEx, "Future Automotive Technologies 2024-2034: Applications, Megatrends, Forecasts", brings together a portfolio of IDTechEx's research into a single summary of the biggest changes and oppor- tunities coming to the auto- motive industry. Much of this potential market revenue will be coming from com- ponents required for elec- trification and automation, but the report predicts that services offered by autono- mous and connected vehicles have the most room for growth. Autonomous cars are still in the early days, with commercial testing starting to scale in the US and China, but recent events involving Cruise show that the industry still needs to be apprehensive. There is hope though. In December, Waymo announced it had surpassed 7 million driverless miles across San Fran- cisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix. In this time, it claims to have shown that its vehicles are 6.7 times less likely to be involved in an injury-causing accident compared to human drivers. Despite this success, any incident should and will be scrutinized, and it will take time for regulations and pub- lic trust to build. (Source: PRNewswire) New Vehicle Tech Will Be Worth $1.6 Trillion by 2034, Says IDTechEx Figure 5: Silicon trench capacitors on Si substrate.