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Scaleo Chip has recently introduced OLEA, its new family of powertrain microcontrollers embedding two unique technologies surpassing the current market solutions: AMEC® (Advanced Motor Events Control) and SILant® (Safety Integrity LeveL agent) technologies provides unprecedented hardware flexibility, timing events predictability, processing performance, functional safety and design cycle reduction. Scaleo chip, IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN), Continental and CEA partnered within the

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ABB Group today released third-party verification that its Onboard DC Grid helps vessels reduce their fuel consumption, cut noise and trim their environmental impact. The measurements and tests, conducted by Pon Power in collaboration with ABB on Myklebusthaug Offshore’s platform supply vessel “Dina Star,” identified reduction of specific fuel oil consumption of up to 27 percent. These are the first

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Linear Technology Corporation today added the LT3063, a high voltage, low noise, low dropout voltage linear regulator with active output discharge. The IC delivers up to 200mA of continuous output current with a 300mV dropout voltage at full load. The LT3063 includes an internal NMOS pull-down that discharges the output voltage if either the SHDN pin is driven low or

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Researchers at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are turning to extremely tiny tubes and rods to boost power and durability in Li-ion batteries. If successful, the batteries will last longer and perform better, leading to a cost advantage for electric vehicles. Transportation and communication around the world increasingly rely on Li-ion batteries, with cell phones ubiquitous on

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Linear Technology’s latest 16-bit voltage output digital-to-analog converter (DAC) has 16 outputs which can be independently configured for one of five selectable unipolar and bipolar output ranges up to ±10V. “Each rail-to-rail DAC output is capable of sourcing or sinking 10mA with guaranteed load regulation and is stable driving capacitive loads as large as 1000pF,” said the supplier. The LTC2668

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Silicon Carbide power semiconductors are rapidly emerging in the commercial market. These devices offer several benefits over conventional Silicon-based power semiconductors. SiC MOSFETs can improve overall system efficiency by more than 10%, and the higher switching capability can reduce the overall system size and cost. Avago Technologies gate drive optocouplers are used extensively to drive Silicon-based semiconductors like IGBT and

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TI today introduced the industry’s fastest and lowest power baseband receiver analog front end (AFE) for ADAS applications. The 4-channel AFE5401-Q1 is designed for the next generation of automotive radar applications where space constraints and increasing radar performance are driving a need for greater bandwidth, high integration and low power. Detect road hazards with TI’s AFE sensor technology for automotive

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The mobile industry’s chipset interconnects are going through a standardization process similar to that experienced by the PC industry several decades ago. Bus standards help accelerate the handset design process by reducing hardware integration effort, eliminating glue logic between devices, and facilitating the migration to new generations of ICs. As an example, the MIPI Alliance DigRF v4 specification defines the

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Production of the Kia Soul EV  begun at Kia’s factory in Gwangju, Korea this week, with the first Kia Soul EV available for sale in North America in the second half of 2014. While Kia has previously offered electric cars – the Venga EV and the Ray EV – to its domestic customers, this will be the first time Kia

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Once seen as a passing fad for those that could afford them, hybrid vehicles have come very far in terms of energy efficiency and design over the last decade. The inspirational Nimbus e-Car, however, takes hybrid automotive design to a whole new (and adorable) level. Created by Brazilian artist and designer, Eduardo Galvani, this all-terrain electric minibus is a concept

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