Chevy Volt Teardown: Charging system and powertrain
Al Steier from Munro & Associates and John Scott-Thomas of TechInsights analyze the Volt's powertrain electronics at Design West in 2012.
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Rob Shaddock, CTO of TE Connectivity, discusses how looking beyond connectors to connectivity helps engineers tackle design challenges from broader perspective--to speed installation, reduce weight and build intelligence into systems.
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Al Steier from Munro & Associates and John Scott-Thomas of TechInsights analyze the Volt's powertrain electronics at Design West in 2012.
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Munro & Associates' Al Steier and TechInsights' John Scott-Thomas analyze the Chevy Volt's battery pack in the first of three Drive for Innovation teardown sessions.
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In a new DESIGN West event, editors, mentors, and robots from "the future" show off their personal DIY projects. Editors whose day jobs are to write about the electronics industry try their hand at embedded systems programming. 46 fun-filled minutes.
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Mike Sinclair of Green Energy Corp. gives a tour of NC State's FREEDM Center and all the cool smart-grid solutions being developed there.
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Solar manufacturing startup Twin Creek Technologies claims it has found a way to produce extremely thin yet flexible solar cells. By reducing material costs and adding value in the manufacturing process, solar cell production could again become a pro...
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GATR Technologies founder and CEO Dan Gierow shows off his company's portable, inflatable (and round) satellite receiver.
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Thomas Dolby entertains as he tells how his musical career in the 1980s morphed into a technology career and back again. Here's a ten-minute excerpt from his DESIGN West keynote on March 27, 2012 in San Jose, Ca.
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LeCroy used DESIGN West to introduce and demonstrate the WaveStation, its new benchtop function/arbitrary waveform generator. The device comes in 10-, 25-, and 50-MHz versions with a sampling rate of 125 Msamples/s, 14-bit front-end resolution and tw...
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Portable electronic devices, powered by batteries, require battery chargers. In higher powered applications, efficiency and thermal management requirements lead to solutions using DC/DC converters. DC/DC converter controllers do not have the accuracy...
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Get a closer look at Microchip's PIC32. Chris Ciufo, content director for Embedded.com, talks to Microchip's Dave Richkas at ESC Boston 2011.
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Microchip Technology's Fanie Duvenhage explains the Configurable Logic Cell (CLC) that's part of certain of their PIC microcontrollers.
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Active ORing solutions offer industry leading response time and efficiency.
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Cypherbridge President Steve Delaney and marketing director Mette McCall talk about their latest products and the state of the embedded market
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At Embedded World Verum Software Technologies B.V. had a demo which should how its ASD:Suite, a model-driven design environment based upon Verum’s patented Analytical Software Design (ASD) technology, had been ported to run on an Android phone.
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Casey Weltzin, Product Marketing Manager, Real-Time and Embedded Software at National Instruments, describes a demo with LabVIEW and Linux running on the emulation board.
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Michael Fawcett, CTO of iVeia shows how the Xilinx Zynq-7000 emulation board provides early information of its Atlas-I-Z7e, small form factor processing module.
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Michael Fawcett, CTO of iVeia shows how the Xilinx Zynq-7000 emulation board provides early information of its Atlas-I-Z7e, small form factor processing module.
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Olaf Schiller, a field Applications Engineer with Xlinx GmbH describes of the emualtion board works.
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Mentor Graphics' product marketing manager Steve Olsen describes ReadyStart, the company's embedded development solution for the Nucleus RTOS.
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Guido Dolman, a principal researcher at Imec in Belgium, demos an RF design that can transmit up to 1,024 Kbits/s over five meters at less than 1 milliwatt.
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See how to create, synthesize, and verify several RTL implementations from the same C++ source using Catapult C Synthesis.
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Jason Ellis, a business development manager at Qualcomm, demos the companies first Wi-Fi chips including a 4x4 MIMO device aiming at whole-home video networking.
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Micha Risling, vice president of marketing for startup Valens demos HDBase-T, a Cat5 interconnect that aims to supplant HDMI and offer home networking features.
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A third and final demo of Google Wave shows the app running on iPhone and Android, how developers can embed Wave conversations into Web sites and blogs and how it can be used to collaborate on documents.
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At Google I/O, developers demonstrated Wave, a collaboration program it bills as the future of e-mail. This second demo shows how Google Wave lets users drop and drag pictures into conversations.
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At Google I/O, developers demonstrated Wave, a collaboration program it bills as the future of e-mail. This demo shows how Wave handles integrated email, IM and playback features.
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Developers gave a sneak peak of the next version of Android at Google I/O in San Francisco showing new text-to-speech and basic handwriting recognition capabilities.
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Andrew Johnson, an account manager for Celio, gave a demo at the Go Mobile conference of the Redfly system and software—essentially a gutted netbook that acts as a smartphone companion.
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A video demonstration and discussion of the Analog Devices ADP1043 digital power controller and reference design.
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