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Texas Instruments is advancing the infotainment and user driving experience in the automobile with seven new high-performance power management, Super Speed USB and logic products. TI today introduced a new power management integrated circuit to enhance infotainment systems. TI also introduced the industry’s first USB 3.0 devices and a free-positioning Qi wireless power transmitter for automobiles that enable a more

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For IoT Microchip Technology is combining long-range RF devices from Semtech with its PIC microcontrollers. The likely applications will include metering, security, and industrial-automation. Microchip is addressing teh IoT market with certified wireless modules, sensors and eXtreme Low Power PIC microcontrollers. Semtech says its LoRa RF devices reduce the need for repeaters and has data capacity for IoT networks. For

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AMD has announced its highest performing server graphics processing unit (GPU) for supercomputers. The FirePro S9150 server card is AMD’s first server card to support enhanced double precision and break the 2.0 TFLOPS double precision barrier. It has 16Gbyte of GDDR5 memory and a maximum power consumption of 235W. It is typical for a supercomputer to be designed on a

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To make portable devices more efficient, engineers have devised clever power-management circuits and software. Mobile devices can turn up the power just when needed and return to sleep mode when idle. But, measuring peak-power consumption can be difficult because power is fully on for short intervals. Plus, the standby current can be 20-to-30 times less than operating current. Keithley Instruments

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Typical applications include characterising battery-powered medical devices, wireless sensors, RFID tags, intrinsically safe devices, and consumer electronics, as well as new, low power semiconductor devices. Series 2280S supplies can output up to 192W of low noise, linear regulated DC power. The Model 2280S-32-6 can output up to 32V at up to 6A, and the Model 2280S-60-3 can output up to

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Texas Instruments, Inc. aims to advance the infotainment and user driving experience in the automobile with seven new high-performance power management, SuperSpeed USB and logic products. TI today introduced a new power management integrated circuit (PMIC) to enhance infotainment systems. TI also introduced the industry’s first USB 3.0 devices and a free-positioning Qi wireless power transmitter for automobiles that enable

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The new specification, MIPI BIF v1.1, makes it more practical and convenient for manufacturers to implement ‘smart’ features in device batteries, facilitates the use of high-performance batteries, and adds communications methods that improve battery safety and overall performance. The battery is a critical component in a mobile device and its deployment in a product has direct impact on the consumer

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Although not yet announced, GTM has just learned that SunPower has acquired Stanford-spawned, early-stage power electronics firm Dfly Systems, according to sources close to the deal. Pricing was not disclosed. SunPower has confirmed the acquisition. Details are scant at this point, but the small firm “builds power electronics that lower system costs,” according to folks in the know who suggest

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Within the next decade, tens of millions of homeowners could find it economically advantageous to invest in solar combined with energy storage, further distancing themselves from their utility. But will they actually sever ties completely? Barring extraordinary circumstances, the economic case for grid defection is still very weak for U.S. consumers. The electricity system offers valuable backup in case a

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Back in 2010, Congress directed the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHSTA) to create rules requiring noise generating devices on EVs, PHEVs, and hybrids while operating on electric power. Studies conducted at the time had suggested that such cars were so quiet that they represent a danger to pedestrians, especially the blind. In fact, the National Federation For The Blind

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