Texas Instruments announced several design updates to TI E2ETM Community, its popular engineer-to-engineer online design community that now connects more than 120,000 engineers. TI has expanded
Automotive systems are becoming increasingly electrically-driven and electric motor manufacturers are benefiting. According to IMS Research, DC brushless motor shipments will outpace shipments of
Chomerics Europe, a division of Parker Hannifin, has achieved ISO/TS 16949 certification for its manufacturing location in Sadska, Czech Republic. This important automotive related standard confirms
Coto Technology announced at the 2013 Design West Conference the availability of its RedRock™ RS-A-2515 Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)-based magnetic reed switch. Based on its unique high
Texas Instruments introduced a haptic driver that makes it easy to add realistic tactile feedback effects to consumer and industrial products, such as smartphones, tablets, ebooks, refrigerators,
TDK Corporation published a product brief featuring EPCOS aluminum electrolytic capacitors for designs in harsh automotive environments. This brochure describes the newly developed EPCOS axial-lead
Alabama has joined the Automotive Accelerator Alliance, an alliance of Southern states created to strengthen the region's collective ability to foster new technology development in the automotive
Texas Instruments introduced the first lead-acid battery management gas gauge integrated circuit with TI's proprietary Impedance Track™ capacity measurement technology. The bq34z110 gas gauge IC,
Alberto Guerra and Diego Raffo, International Rectifier
Considering that almost 60 percent of total electric energy produced worldwide is used to run motors of every size, shape and efficiency, the adoption of variable speed drives can save as much as 70 percent of energy costs by controlling the speed of the load. New energy efficiency standards for compressors an
The U. S. Energy Information Administration's new annual "Alternative Fuel Vehicle" report with data for 2011. Highlights of the report include that overall consumption of alternative transportation
AVX, a leading manufacturer of advanced passive components and interconnect solutions, introduced a series of AEC-Q200-qualified RF chip capacitors for automotive applications. Available in 0402 and
The new A6263 is the latest addition to the family of automotive qualified LED driver ICs from Allegro MicroSystems Europe. The device incorporates a linear programmable current regulator providing
Texas Instruments introduced three wide-input voltage synchronous boost controllers with high efficiency and high power density. The LM5122Q multi-phase boost controller features the industry's widest
Toshiba Electronics Europe announced the first in a line-up of automotive MOSFETs that brings together the latest UMOS8 low on resistance (RDS(ON)), low input capacitance (Ciss) trench process with
