ON Semi Lights Up Automotive
A plethora of automotive solutions, including high-brightness LEDs and drivers, are described by ON Semi's director of automotive solutions, Herve Branquart.
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With the increased-use of electronics in automotive and industrial applications, the need for robust and highly reliable components is essential to ensure a proper functioning system with low maintenance costs. Automotive applications, for example h...
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Power distribution systems such as USB are ubiquitous. They can be found in automotive dashboards, home charging systems and office equipment. Cellphones, electric toothbrushes, PC printers and personal computers all use battery chargers. These sy...
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Accurate monitoring of power is an essential part of a reliable and energy efficient (green) system design. Measuring voltage and current of low voltage (1.8V to 36V) supplies is straightforward, but higher voltages present additional challenges. I...
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MEMS Fairy, Karen Lightman works her magic on the floor of Design West 2013.
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Imagine the ultimate battery-powered motorized propeller beanie cap, which forms a wireless mesh network with other nearby beanies! CapNet was deployed during the 2013 Design West Conference in San Jose, CA with more than 200 caps on the network.
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At Design West 2013, Engineers from Idneo and SMTC talk about building a robust supply- and design-chain offering in partnership.
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Professor Yang Yang at UCLA describes his work with using organic polymers to boost solar cell efficiency.
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Sue Poniatowski of Texas Instruments describes the design challenges in managing video signals in automotive environments.
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FPD-Link has been in existence for almost 20 years; it's improving like fine wine.
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The short video highlights some of the advanced capabilities in Intel System Studio showcased at Embedded World Conference.
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Renesas Electronics Product Marketing Manager Gianluca Viale discusses want people can do to conserve energy in their households leveraging microncontrollers and embedded systems.
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Wade McDaniel discusses commoditization regarding manufacturing technology.
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Wade McDaniel discusses factors to take into consideration when looking to off-shore.
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Lynn Torrel explains why supply chains need to be able to continuously adapt due to ever-changing customer expectations.
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Lynn Torrel explains why customers are asking for global or multi-regional quotes.
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Large, series connected strings of batteries are commonly used in electric vehicles, backup power systems and a wide variety energy storage applications. Maximizing the lifetime and ensuring safe usage of such battery stacks requires accurate meas...
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UCLA engineering professor Rajit Gadh talks about research in smart grid systems and how consumers can benefit from demand-response technologies and programs.
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At Delta Controls, they're using a legendary and time-tested invention to improve their process and inventory control. Hail to the bar code.
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Douglas Kent discusses Risk Management and some of the current approaches to Risk Management in the supply chain.
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Douglas Kent talks about the importance of end-to-end process planning in supply chain excellence and what we mean by “embedded analytics”.
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Douglas Kent explains what we mean by “personalization” with regard to service excellence in the supply chain and whether there is a holistic approach to “lifecycle supply chain service”.
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Douglas Kent discusses supply chain collaboration and how this technology is evolving.
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Douglas Kent tells us about smarter fulfillment and “order cycle compression” and whether “postponement” strategies are making a comeback.
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Douglas Kent explains “big data” and how important “mobility solutions” are in planning for IT investment strategies.
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Douglas Kent discusses the costs of long lead times and how this impacts “forecast precision” and the implications of this regarding “profitable proximity”.
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Jan-Hein Broeder, Healthcare Business Development Manager, Analog Devices demonstrates the ADAS1000.
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Talking SoCs to Near-Wire Speeds with John Carbone, vp of marketing, Express Logic.
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RTOS expert, Jean Labrosse, CEO, Micrium shares his perspective with Alex Wolfe.
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The meaning of the term “high power LED” is rapidly evolving. Although a 350mA LED could easily earn the stamp of “high power” a few years ago, now, 5A to 40A LEDs and laser diodes are used in the DLP projector, surgical equipment, stage lighting, au...
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Pulsed loading conditions and abnormal disturbances within the electrical systems found in industrial, vehicle, avionic and other harsh environments can induce wildly varying voltage transients (surges) on what is nominally a 24VDC or 36VDC distribut...
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Stability of precision electronic circuits is often dominated by the stability of the voltage reference. Most electronic systems rely on one or more voltage references to ensure that measurements or performance meets specifications, especially over ...
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In today’s modern electronic systems, the need for power conversion circuits that can do more then simply convert one voltage to another is growing. Some systems require a constant current, constant voltage output, while others may require a limit o...
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Douglas Kent explains Supply Chain Resiliency and how the phrase “massively multidimensional” ties in with Supply Chain Resiliency.
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Paul Cunningham of Cadence, whose startup Azuro was acquired by the EDA giant, talks about how to innovate in companies from large to small.
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Baljit Chandhoke, principal applications engineer, describes IDT's crystal-free oscillators, a technology that's disrupting decades-old quartz oscillators.
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Anwar Sukkarie, founder of Vancouver-based Saturna Green Systems, talks about the embedded systems design challenges of putting sophisticated telematics in electric scooters.
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Randall Muncy, chief engineer at Texas-based CE Labs, describes how his company considers the benefits of on and offshoring in the context of potential customers.
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Over the last few years CES has gone from being a predominantly consumer technology show, to an automotive show. In 2013, we caught up with a number of vendors to talk about the future of driving.
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While some claim CES has lost its luster and big name headliners over the years, the show refuses to be deemed irrelevant. With trends spanning healthcare, mobile and automotive, there was plenty to see.
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While BlackBerry may no longer be an executive brand, Bentleys are still the very icons of style. So when RIM owned software company QNX decided to hack a Bentley, the results were incredibly cool. Take a look.
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Intel put on an impressive show at CES 2013, showing off a whole host of ultrabook convertibles, smartphones and gesture control demos. We walked around the booth and found the best Intel had to offer.
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Mice and keyboards are the past. Eye tracking, voice commands and gestures are the future. At least according to Intel and demonstrated to our team at CES 2013.
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Protecting sensitive electronic circuitry from voltage transients is an essential part of any system be it automotive, industrial, avionics or even battery-powered consumer applications. Linear Technology offers a wide variety of solutions for these ...
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The non-synchronous flyback topology is widely used in isolated power supplies ranging from sub watt power levels to tens of watts. With more green-mode standards emerging around the world, improving light load efficiency and reducing no-load input s...
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16kW-hr battery packs made from lithium ion cells are powering electric vehicles and storing grid energy. Measurement ICs like the LTC®6804 are used to extend the life and ensure the safety of the pack. The accuracy of the measurement IC can influenc...
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Two popular trends rocking the world of consumer electronics are touch enabled surfaces and the Internet of Things. American semiconductor firm Atmel has made both a priority, and to prove it, the firm hit the ground running at CES 2013.
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This STMicroelectronics video describes the technology behind fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator technology and its benefits for ultra-low VLSI circuit design.
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Ann Karagozian, UCLA engineering professor, talks about the state of basic research today and universities' role in it.
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The LPC800 is revolutionizing simplicity with the most energy-efficient ARM Cortex-M0+ processor and peripherals, addressing 8-bit application requirements while providing 32-bit capabilities. In this video, we show how he LPC800 is scalable, efficie...
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The LPCXpresso development board for the LPC800 is now available. The LPCXpresso development environment can be downloaded now from http://www.nxp.com/lpcxpresso. For more information about tools, software and more for LPC microcontrollers, visit htt...
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UCLA engineering professor Ann Karagozian talks about the prospects for alternative fuels to power aircraft in the coming years.
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Indeed some modern day smartphones have up to 20 Fairchild products in them, which can deal with anything from core power to lighting, battery management, RF power, USB detection, video, USB routing, and haptic drivers for touch screen displays.
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The thermodynamics of a mobile phone simply don’t allow for the same luxury of fan cooling as laptops, and yet, every generation wants to show a performance increase. What to do? Samsung Semiconductor believes the answer lies in better mobile memory.
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Synaptics is moving on from simple touchpad sensors to a more touch integrated future, from better designed ThinTouch capacitive keyboards to mobile touchscreens that work even with gloved hands.
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Maxim Integrated showed off its Cardio Leaf t-shirt to demonstrate the integration of sensors with the analog technology that controls them and processes their data. also showing off its audio products, notably the FlexSound configuration application
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Adam Thompson with Parvus talks about the company's military products and how to make electronics both rugged and portable.
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Samsung discussed its new high-speed, small form factor eMMC embedded memory card for mobile phones and tablets. The new eMMC 64GB Pro 2000 memory solution has a random write speed of 2000 IOPS and a random read speed of 5000 IOPS.
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NXP has made automotive a priority, striving to enable all electronic communication to, from and within the vehicle – reliably, securely, and efficiently. Using in-vehicle networks and RF cryptography.
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Sylvie Barak takes you on a speedy tour of the CES show floor, to see what accessories, gadgets, toys and tech was on offer. Among the highlights; cute bluetooth speakers, nail printers, bejeweled iphone cases, LED lights, waterproof tablets and more
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Dusty Kramer, president of Salt Lake City-based Parvus, talks about how to remain competitive amid uncertain budgetary times.
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Samsung Semiconductor discusses the focus on enabling the next gen of application development on the Exonys chip platform. Agrawal said Samsung was putting a lot of effort into enabling the developer ecosystem with open source community platforms.
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IP company Rambus may have struggled with a bad reputation as a patent troll in the past, but the firm says it is now moving in another direction to make good on its inventions. At CES they were showing off an LED lightbulb and a visual search TV.
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Michael Worry talks about putting his 48-hour-old daughter on a path to appreciate engineering.
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As enterprise demands more memory and more storage, Samsung is working hard to reduce data center carbon footprints with greener memory products.
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Pepcom's technology showcase at CES 2013 has 100’s of companies showing off their consumer wares to fans. Everything from voice-control watches to Ubuntu smartphones and life-vests that pulsate wirelessly to the beat of your ipod.
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What do hemp headphones, singing toothbrushes, quadcopter cameras and 3-D printed iPhone cases all have in common? Why, CES Unveiled of course!
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Intel unveiled a new smartphone reference design aimed at the value market, while showing off higher performance smartphones from its partner Motorola, based on the Atom Z280.
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Intel announced pull ins for core products, noting the new processors would come out earlier than expected and enable thinner, lighter ultrabooks and tablets with all-day battery life.
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Showing a range of touch, eye tracking and voice demos at CES, Intel made good on its claims to change the way consumers interact with machines, now it just remains to be seen whether everyone will take to that with as much enthusiasm as Intel.
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At CES, Intel announced a pull-in of its low powered processors from 4th gen. to 3rd gen. Ivy bridge products, exceeding even its own stated power targets, for what the company hopes will produce thinner, lighter, longer battery life devices.
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Toyota is actively exploring autonomous driving for its Lexus cars, the firm announced at CES. The luxury car brand said it wanted to reduce road fatalities to zero and make driving safer within the next few years.
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Ken Brown, director of engineering, for Leviton's commercial/industrial unit, talks about the challenges of luring new-college-graduate engineers into the world of smart grid engineering.
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Ken Brown, director of engineering, for Leviton's commercial/industrial unit, talks about the company's GFCI technology and safety for EV chargers.
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SuVolta CEO Bruce McWilliams describes the industry's battles with device variability and how his company's PowerShrink platform attempts to solve the problem.
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Silicon Valley design services company Nuvation has a penchant for wild design side projects. E Rex is just one of them.
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Marc Alfonso, president and CEO, PLC Electronics, talks about his company's remote-control architecture for Hollywood cameras.
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Marc Alfonso, president and ceo, PLC Electronics describes a thumb-sized electrocardiogram design, data from which you can monitor on your smart phone.
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Marc Alfonso has had engineering in his blood since forever. Now he's running his own company in Vancouver, PLC Electronics.
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Cypress Semiconductor CEO T.J. Rodgers shows off his Clos de la Tech winery and the embedded electronics technology that makes some tasty pinot noir.
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Cypress Semiconductor CEO T.J. Rodgers shows off his Clos de la Tech winery and the embedded electronics technology that makes some tasty pinot noir.
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Vicor talks turkey about direct-current solutions, where DC goes right to the rack, greatly increasing efficiency and cutting data-center power costs.
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FCI Electronics Interconnection Solutions talks about how connectors are advancing to support the higher speeds and increased aggregate bandwidth required by the massive increase in connected devices.
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But it's really a new USB host controller from Future Technology Devices International (FTDI).
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Rochester Electronics is building a business around providing parts no longer available from their original manufacturer.
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Douglas Kent discusses the threat counterfeiting poses and how to minimize exposure.
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Douglas Kent discusses the factors that can affect the transportation sector.
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Douglas Kent discusses lessons that can be learned after dealing with Hurricane Sandy.
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Douglas Kent discusses how mobile access impacts the supply chain and two things to keep an eye on.
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Douglas Kent explains the difference between Risk Management and Disaster Recovery and why it is so important to today’s supply chain.
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Douglas Kent explains what supply chain transparency is and why it is important.
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TE Connectivity is the world leader in fiber connectivity, bringing data from the chip to the world with the help of advanced lensed interconnects for fiber optics.
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As the world leader in fiber connectivity, TE is setting new standards for miniaturization and high-speed solutions. All to help today’s most demanding data centers keep the data flowing.
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With the increased-use of electronics in automotive and industrial applications, the need for robust and highly reliable components is essential to ensure a proper functioning system with low maintenance costs. Automotive applications, for example h... -
Power distribution systems such as USB are ubiquitous. They can be found in automotive dashboards, home charging systems and office equipment. Cellphones, electric toothbrushes, PC printers and personal computers all use battery chargers. These sy... -
Accurate monitoring of power is an essential part of a reliable and energy efficient (green) system design. Measuring voltage and current of low voltage (1.8V to 36V) supplies is straightforward, but higher voltages present additional challenges. I... -
MEMS Fairy, Karen Lightman works her magic on the floor of Design West 2013. -
Imagine the ultimate battery-powered motorized propeller beanie cap, which forms a wireless mesh network with other nearby beanies! CapNet was deployed during the 2013 Design West Conference in San Jose, CA with more than 200 caps on the network. -
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