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Towards Better Power Supply Rejection Ratio Performance: ON Semiconductor’s New LDO Regulators

Low drop out (LDO) regulators are useful in noise-sensitive situations but, when used with DC-DC converters, their PSRR performance is often lacking. ON Semiconductor has announced the NCP16x series of LDOs that aim to improve PSRR...

2 days ago by Robin Mitchell

What Is Solid State LiDAR and Is It Faster, Cheaper, Better?

Solid state LiDAR is gaining traction as a promising technology that is cheaper, faster, and provides higher resolution than traditional LiDAR, with predictions the price could eventually fall...

3 days ago by Chantelle Dubois

Measure Currents of Up to 50, 150, 400 Amps: A Galvanically Isolated Current Sensor IC

Allegro Microsystems announces a new family of current sensors for AC or DC current-sensing applications.

April 30, 2018 by Nick Davis

Intel, Waymo Compare Vision Systems in Wake of Uber’s First Fatal Autonomous Car Crash

In the wake of Uber's fatal autonomous car crash, companies such as Intel and Waymo are insisting that their autonomous vehicle systems could have prevented this tragedy. How are these big...

April 07, 2018 by Donald Krambeck

Will GaN Take Over Audio, Automotive? GaN Systems Talks Gallium Nitride Applications

Gallium nitride, or GaN, was a hot topic among power companies at APEC 2018. AAC's Karissa Manske had the chance to ask GaN Systems CEO, Jim Witham, about what GaN's capable of and where we'll...

March 24, 2018 by Karissa Manske

A Triple Output Voltage Controller from Linear Technology: Two Bucks and a Boost

This triple-output DC/DC controller offers two buck converters, each with an output voltage range of 0.8 to 24 V, and a boost converter that can produce up to 60 V....

March 22, 2018 by Nick Davis

More Power at Higher Temperatures: A New Modular Power Solution from Vicor

The new ZVS power modules from Vicor offer high efficiencies at high temperatures.

March 15, 2018 by Nick Davis

Solid-State LiDAR Is Coming to an Autonomous Vehicle Near You

Solid-state LiDAR may be the path forward for developing sensing systems for autonomous vehicles.

February 20, 2018 by Mark Hughes

Tricking Autonomous Driving Systems Could Be as Simple as Subtly Altering Street Signs

Recent research indicates that it may be easier to dupe a vision system in an autonomous vehicle than previously thought.

February 16, 2018 by Chantelle Dubois

A Small, Powerful, and Versatile DC/DC Converter—But One That Requires Thought and Deliberation

A new DC/DC converter that offers boost, SEPIC, and voltage inverting functionality, making it suitable for a variety of applications from automotive to telecom to portable electronics....

January 29, 2018 by Nick Davis

Breakdown on Piezo Actuators from TDK at CES 2018

TDK has just released a new line of piezo actuators with haptic feedback. The PiezoHap comes in three compact sizes - 2.5G, 7G, and 15G, with a large acceleration of 2.5 g. 7 g, and 15 g,...

January 26, 2018 by Donald Krambeck

A New High-Performance MEMS Relative Humidity and Temperature Sensor from IDT

IDT’s new high-performance MEMS relative humidity and temperature sensor requires no user calibration and comes in four different accuracy levels....

January 24, 2018 by Nick Davis

Working with Fluctuating Input Supplies: A New Tiny DC/DC Buck Regulator from Linear Technology

A new, smaller, and more versatile DC/DC step-down voltage regulator that's designed for noisier applications such as avionics, factory automation, and industrial robotics....

January 19, 2018 by Nick Davis

Teardown Tuesday: Vehicle Code Reader and OBD-II Scanner

In this teardown, we take apart Ancel's vehicle code reader and check engine light scan tool, the AD410, to see if we can find anything interesting....

January 16, 2018 by Nick Davis

Dev Kits from TDK, Add-On Sensor Systems from Bosch Set the Tone for Sensor Incorporation in 2018

Sensor integration unsurprisingly continues to be important for the future of device design. Bosch and TDK showed this month that they're answering the call with both dev kits for easy...

January 15, 2018 by Mark Hughes

What Is Mobility as a Service? The Future of Autonomous Vehicles

What is "mobility as a service" and what does it mean for autonomous vehicles?

January 12, 2018 by Kate Smith

LED Control for Automotive Applications: A 3-Channel Constant-Current Linear LED Controller from TI

Texas Instruments recently introduced their new 3-channel high-side constant-current linear automotive LED controller that gives designers more lighting design flexibility....

December 27, 2017 by Nick Davis

High-Accuracy Temperature Sensing: New Digital Temperature Sensors from Sensirion

Sensirion asserts that their new series of digital temperature sensors are more accurate, have increased intelligence, and are more reliable than their predecessors....

December 21, 2017 by Nick Davis

The Calorimetric Principle at Work: New High-Performance MEMS Flow Sensor Modules from IDT

IDT’s new flow sensors use the calorimetric principle and a special sensor coating to provide robustness and long-term reliability when measuring gases and liquids....

December 04, 2017 by Nick Davis

What Some Big Cities are Doing About Driverless Cars

Urban planning has to better account for developments in autonomous vehicles.

November 11, 2017 by Heather Hamilton-Post