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For reverse battery protection, peak avalanche power gauges pulse performance while having low forward voltage drop.View the full article HERE.

Using an integrated system-on-chip reduces both product and project costs.View the full article HERE.

A building block approach allows mixing and matching features in affordable tire pressure monitoring system packages.View the full article HERE.

Carefully balancing technological possibilities, real market requirements, and economic considerations, it is important to show a clear cost-down technological roadmap. But several aspects need to be addressed, including data transport capacity (bitrate), physical media, and topology options.View the full article HERE.

As homes become more digitally sophisticated, consumers are developing higher expectations for connectivity and greater levels of safety and comfort in their home away from home—their vehicle. As a result, in-vehicle electronics are growing in number and complexity. Collision warning, comfort controls, infotainment, and advanced driver assistance are just some of today’s sophisticated and diverse applications generating an increasing need for bandwidth and connectivity within and between in-vehicle networks.View the full article HERE.

A broad range of motion detection depends on an astute application of technology. Moisture and rapid temperature changes are challenges.View the full article HERE.

Several accelerator pedal position sensors had tin whiskers that could cause short circuits.View the full article HERE.

Automotive electronics for safety applications are increasingly implementing multi-CPU architectures with on-chip redundancy to ensure applications using minimal software overhead. Such redundancy is good for safety, but on the other hand has disadvantages such as higher die area, noise, and power consumption.View the full article HERE.

As with elsewhere in the world, there is interest in EV and hybrid electric technologies.View the full article HERE.

The top stories of the year underscore the great interest Automotive Designline readers have in hybrid and electric vehicles.View the full article HERE.

Unique SerDes application permits encrypted HD video/audio with full-duplex bi-directional control over a single wire pair interface.View the full article HERE.

Charge imbalance can reduce a battery pack’s total capacity and potentially damage the pack. Imbalance prevents batteries from tracking from the charged state to the discharged state and if not closely monitored can cause batteries to be overcharged or over-discharged—which will permanently damage the cells.View the full article HERE.

Moving radio functions from hardware into software opens up cost benefits for global car production. Secondly, it affords producers flexibility when making decisions about future innovations in the pipeline—such as car-to-X. But what is needed is the right mix of specialized and flexible function blocks.View the full article HERE.

Charge imbalance can reduce a battery pack’s total capacity and potentially damage the pack. Imbalance prevents batteries from tracking from the charged state to the discharged state and if not closely monitored can cause batteries to be overcharged or over-discharged—which will permanently damage the cells.View the full article HERE.

To achieve maximum power density, electric losses and thermal resistances must be kept to a minimum—thus maximum component integration is required.View the full article HERE.

Energy harvesting ICs can convert a transducer's output into an electric current for a battery charger. Here are application options for a charger IC designed for embedded automotive applications.View the full article HERE.

Lighting used to be purely functional but has evolved into an element of design: Every vehicle can be given an individual appearance thanks to characteristic lighting.View the full article HERE.

Use of specific analog and digital sensor signal processing concepts enables interference-immune, highly accurate sensor signal measurements. Proper application of concepts, such as ratiometricity or signal conditioning, is paving the way for energy-efficient, high-performance standard solutions.View the full article HERE.

In a parking assist system example, single twisted-pair communication and an interface chipset provide a bidirectional control channel with a minimum latency and general purpose I/O functionality, enabling seamless frame-synchronous processing of individual video data streams.View the full article HERE.

Software strategies protect externally networked infotainment systems from entry by hackers.View the full article HERE.