Automotive & Transportation

August 2022

40V Window-Type Voltage Detector Provides High Accuracy and Ultra-Low Consumption

ROHM Semiconductor announced its new high accuracy, ultra-low current consumption voltage detector (reset IC) BD48HW0G-C. The device is optimized for a wide range of automotive and industrial applications requiring voltage monitoring of electronic circuits for increased safety, including au

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Date:

08/31/2022

Power Integrations Delivers AEC-Qualified Buck Switcher IC with 850 mA Output for Low-Part-Count Automotive PSUs

AEC-Qualified Buck Switcher IC with 850 mA Output

Power Integrations announced a high-current member of its LinkSwitch-TN2Q automotive switcher IC family which provides up to 850 mA of output current without the need for metal heatsinking. The highly integrated ICs support a wide input voltage of 30 to 550 VDC, enabling the devices to st

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Date:

08/24/2022

Frederik Dostal, Subject Matter Expert, Power Management, Analog Devices

Easy Integration of Supercapacitor Power Back-up

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

One of the major trends over the last two decades is to replace mechanical systems with electronic systems wherever possible. Deploying an electronic system usually has the advantage of offering faster and more accurate responses, while being more reliable due to having no physical wear and te

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Date:

08/23/2022

Kemet's new range of three-phase filters suppress the noise in electronic equipment with superior attention characteristics

Nanocrystals Enable Smaller Off-the-Shelf Three-Phase Filter

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Three-phase filters are a necessary component in many applications, particularly in the industrial and medical areas, to ensure circuits operate without interference, reducing errors. Currently, they tend to be bulky, grey boxes which may need quite a bit of engineering work to perform their tas

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Date:

08/09/2022

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Figure 1. The placement polarity checker and the safety contactor

Using Bidirectional Programmable DC Power Supplies for Battery Testing

Zeke Pietsch, Sr. Applications Support Engineer, EA Elektro-Automatik

In today’s fast-paced world the need to create quicker, more mobile mechanical devices is steadily increasing. One primary method for doing this is to replace traditional gas powered or plugged-in devices with battery power. Batteries have become smaller and increasingly efficient as a result. In order to ke

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Date:

08/01/2022

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

New Report: Hummer EV is Worse for the Environment than Chevy Malibu

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

I guess turnabout is fair play…even when it comes to a 9,000-pound vehicular juggernaut. Back in 2007, a report from the Oregon-based CNW Market Research famously claimed that the Hummer — the poster child for gas guzzlers — was more energy efficient than the Toyota Prius hybrid. 15 years later, a n

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Date:

08/01/2022

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Figure 1: Ac charging diagram

Power Supplies for EV Charging Stations

Ron Stull, Power Product Marketing Engineer, CUI, Inc.

EVs can now achieve similar mileage as gas-powered vehicles, but it still takes more time to charge an EV than to refuel a gas vehicle. Charge time is approximately equal to the amount of energy delivered to the battery divided by the charging power; therefore, it is desirable to use as much power as possible to

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Date:

08/01/2022

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The Role of Connectivity in EV Charging

Sara Ghaemi, Director Technical Development, Avnet Abacus

We are all familiar with the phrase work smarter, not harder. Well, the EV charging infrastructure needs to be hardworking and intelligent to meet the needs of vehicle users and the communities impacted by them. The hard work is associated with distributing enormous quantities of energy, as the number of EVs on

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Date:

08/01/2022

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Figure 1: Global EV passenger car sales could make up roughly half of all cars sold by 2030

Driving Advanced Performance with Higher Reliability

Sivaguru Noopuran, Senior Product Manager, NexGen Power Systems

The rising popularity of EVs in recent times is not merely due to consumer demand, but because of the collective effort by the governments across the world to implement more sustainable and safer ways of mobility. In 2021, we saw an indication of the rapid adoption of electric vehicles with the number of EV (B

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Date:

08/01/2022

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Figure 1: Standard DSRC V2X infrastructure

Passive Components Enable V2X and 48V Automotive Systems Vital to Addressing Evolving Safety and Fuel Efficiency Demands

James Emerick, Field Application Engineer, KYOCERA AVX

Automotive safety has always been a top priority for both consumers and regulatory bodies, but the growing availability of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and the increasing viability of driverless technologies requires innovative approaches to this age-old requirement. Similarly, while fuel efficiency ha

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Date:

08/01/2022