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MCU functionalities change for ISO 26262 safety standard

Combo MEMS sensor use in cars growing rapidly

TI, Continental make 'stability' MCU for cars

Students build electric racing car

Slideshow: Inside McLaren's Formula 1 Racing Tech Center

Making roads safer with vehicle video recorders

How small vendors compete in analog IC market

Providing active balancing for series-connected batteries

Slideshow: Is Europe Stealth Semiconductor Research Leader?

Students test Freescale's MCUs in racing cars

MISRA C update addresses automotive software safety

NXP joins car-to-car comms consortium

Automotive safety: An ISO 26262 perspective

Digital isolators deliver automotive-grade quality, reliability

Using parallel FFT for multi-gigahertz FPGA signal processing

Renesas drives eight-core 'big-little' into automotive

Micronas, Synopsys team on automotive design

How M2M, small data will revolutionize the car industry

Automotive HMI: More than just a machine interface

Automotive Ethernet: Evolution in the fast lane

Imagination preps cores for vision processor market

Car infotainment to expand after soft growth in 2013

Slideshow: Automakers roll out dream cars

Honda recycles rare earth metals from hybrid car batteries

BASF teams with universities on materials research

High-speed measurements for electric, hybrid vehicles

Toshiba recognition processor helps drivers

Renesas, Elektrobit team on infotainment

Car infotainment systems need multi-output power ICs

Packaged telematics to meet tough automotive requirements

Slideshow: Diesels, turbochargers power Chicago Auto Show

Performing audio synthesis, noise reduction in cars

Mentor buys MontaVista automotive infotainment software unit

Delphi, NXP update deal with car radios

Selecting automotive display touch interface

ST, Hyundai team up to develop powertrain

Camera-enabled electric car drives itself

Half of vehicles to include voice recognition in 2019

How to meet driver assistance requirements

High-speed automotive electronics needs high-performance ESD protection

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Technical Papers

42V, 2.5A Synchronous Step-Down Regulator with 2.5μA Quiescent Current

Migrating from the MSP430F5/F6xx to the MSP430FR58/59xx Family

Minimizing energy consumption in capacitive sensing applications

Reduced Battery Current Using CC112x/CC1175/CC1200 with TPS62730

Cost effectively delivering high quality audio across the complete audio spectrum

Twelve Design Techniques for Successful Integration of Data Converter IP into an SoC

Improve Lithium-Ion Battery-Stack Safety in Electric Vehicles by Leveraging Optocouplers to Isolate High Voltages

How to Reduce Motor Size by Integrating Accurate, Low Cost Piezo Motors

ISO26262 in automotive IC development: is it just a tick-box exercise, or does it induce manufacturers to make safer components?

Implementing Digital Processing for Automotive Radar Using SoC FPGAs

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Courses and Webinars

EDN on LEDs Part 2: LED Lighting System Design

Connectivity Solutions for Next Gen Industrial Automation and Control

In-vehicle product differentiation: open standards vs open source

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Teardowns

Sperry vertical gyro for Boeing 747

Under the Hood: MotoGP electronics is where the rubber meets the road

CMOS power amplifiers penetrating 3G handsets

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Reference Designs

Lattice adds over 90 reference designs for PLDs

Lattice Semiconductor Corp. has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO and ispMACH 4000ZE PLDs.
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Quantenna debuts 802.11n 4x4 MIMO wireless video bridge ref design

Quantenna Communications Inc. has debuted a complete reference design based on its QHS600 IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) 4x4 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) chipset.
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Products

Multilayer stacked capacitors offer high temperature reliability

Power module simplifies automotive design

Microchip expands LIN 2.1/ SAE J2602-2 portfolio

NKK adds brushed chrome to IP65-rated pushbutton series

Voltage supervisor features watchdog, manual reset and dual-outputs

Translator converts sine waves into low phase noise logic level signals

DC/DC controller employs just one inductor

Power Metal Strip resistor features wide side terminal construction

Tact switches target sensitive applications

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News, Analysis, and Opinion

Mobile video streaming drives demand for networking semiconductors in cars

MOST Forum sheds light on the future of automotive optical data communications

Slideshow: Is Europe Stealth Semiconductor Research Leader?

Geo Semi tackles video analytics

GapSense unclogs WiFi channels

China Fabless: Allwinner's secret to tablet IC success

Connected people meet the connected car

Mentor Graphics expands automotive Linux infotainment business

What were they thinking: exhibiting at DAC

Slideshow: Google I/O puts 7 platforms on parade

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Commentary

What were they thinking: exhibiting at DAC

Brian Bailey

Every year there are new companies exhibiting at DAC and we all know that most of them will not be back. Here are two very likely candidates for that list…

post comment 3 comments last comment Frank Eory
Perhaps the tool from that injection molding company can come up with very accurate values for ...

Was I just talking to an artificial intelligence?

Clive Maxfield

This may sound a little crazy, but I seriously think I may have just had my first conversation with an artificial intelligence.

post comment 14 comments last comment WKetel
What we know is that most programs are not able to handle exceptions very well, so the test would be ...

Slideshow: Astronaut sings Bowie in space

Anne-Francoise Pele

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, the first music video made in space, has rocketed him across the web.

post comment 9 comments last comment Duane Benson
I'm glad he modified the lyrics a bit to get rid of the part where he floats off into outer space, ...

Front-seat TV unwelcome in US auto market

Charles Murray

Front-seat television technology is beginning to creep into the worldwide automotive market, but regulators, automakers and suppliers say it's unlikely to take hold in the US.

post comment 7 comments last comment Work to Ride comma Ride to Work
And yet, my RV multifunction NAV/entertainment unit in the dashboard will display full motion video ...

DAC – here we come – time to SKY

Brian Bailey

There are several changes being made to the DAC program this year and I spoke with Yervant Zorian about them. Today we learn about the SKY talks…

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The Internet of Things: Boon or Bane of Society?

Clive Maxfield

On Tuesday April 23 at Design West 2013, I will be hosting and moderating a "Shop Talk" session on the Internet of Things (IoT) from 7:00 to 8:00am.

post comment 15 comments last comment DCole
I think that Duane is spot-on about our biggest risk coming from Little Brother (corporations - ...

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