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MALVERN, Pa. — Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today announced that the company’s Si8851EDB TrenchFET® p-channel Gen III power MOSFET has received a 2013 Power Supply Products Award from Electronic Engineering & Product World magazine (EEPW), one of China’s leading electronics industry publications. The annual EEPW Power Supply Products Award program — now in its 11th year — is open

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RESEARCHERS at Caltech have devised a method to protect the semiconductors in solar-fuel generators. Solar-fuel generators use sunlight to split water, yielding hydrogen gas that can then be used as a clean fuel. Water is oxidated to produce oxygen gas, then reduced for hydrogen. These devices are currently in the development stage, but would require efficient light-absorbing materials that attract

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A NANOTECHNOLOGY scientist in the Florida has developed a way to enhance cable copper cables to both transmit and store electricity. Hailing from the University of Central Florida’s NanoScience Technology Center, Nanotechnology scientist and professor Jayan Thomas and his Ph.D student Zenan Yu started the process by coating a copper wire with copper oxide. They grew a layer of electrochemically

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Spansion Inc. today announced a new family of power management integrated circuits (PMICs) for energy harvesting that can enable a greener Internet of Things (IoT) by eliminating the need for or extending the life of batteries in a multitude of IoT devices from individual wearable electronics to the nodes in wireless sensor networks. The Spansion Energy Harvesting family includes the

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The world is one step closer to more affordable and eco-friendly electric vehicles thanks to the efforts of ANSYS, Inc., General Motors LLC, the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and ESim LLC, which are working to design better, safer and longer-lasting lithium-ion EV batteries. The team’s efforts have led to the standard inclusion of battery models in the latest

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Scaleo has announced the first microcontroller family made on Global Foundries 55nm automotive-specific chip process.   The microcontroller, called Olea, has “unique technologies related to real-time process and control of highly electrified internal combustion engines and electric motors based on programmable logic, as well as a set of ISO 26262 compliant functional safety features which improve powertrain system safety integrity

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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE have now successfully implemented silicon carbide (SiC) devices with a blocking voltage of 10kV in a dc-dc converter for medium-voltage applications. This demonstrator can be used in renewable power plants which are gaining significance for the energy grid of the future. The Fraunhofer ISE is presenting its development at the

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Today, Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) announced the mass production of the world’s most advanced automotive-grade wireless connectivity devices, the WiLink™ 8Q family. With integrated Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth®, Bluetooth low energy and GPS/GNSS technologies, customers receive an all in one AEC-Q100 qualified chip. WiLink 8Q delivers a complete wireless connectivity experience for automotive infotainment systems.  As Wi-Fi is gaining momentum in

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Synopsys has announced intellectual property (IP) prototyping kits, virtual development kits and customised subsystems to accelerate prototyping, software development and the integration of IP into SoCs. Under the brand ‘IP Accelerated’, the firm’s aim is to give designers a flying start by providing them with working products they can modify. The prototyping kits consist of a pre-verified reference design IP

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Freescale Semiconductor introduced the MM9Z1J638, AEC-Q100 qualified intelligent battery sensors with three measurement channels, a 16/32-bit MCU and a CAN protocol module in one 7 x 7 mm 48-pin QFN package. The market this product serves is quite diversified with 12 V lead acid batteries, 14 V Li-Ion batteries, Lead acid multi-batteries, HV battery junction box, Energy Storage Systems (ESS),

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