Arrow and Cree to host a lighting solution seminar in Taichung, Taiwan on Feb 23, 2012. The seminars will provide designers and manufacturers of lighting products a comprehensive overview of Crees LED products and Arrows total lighting solutions. To register, please click here.

Arrow and Silicon Labs will showcase solution at IIC Shenzhen from Feb 23 to 25, 2012. Come visit our booth to check out the latest solution of 7 ITO Multi-Touch Panel. Our booth location is 1Q01, Hall 1.

Bourns will demonstrate latest solution at Electronica Shanghai from March 20 to 22, 2012, in Booth 3221 (Hall 3), at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. It focuses on 3 segments - Telecom/ COMI and Industry. Bourns will host a Power Electronic Forum which will provide you the introduction of Bournss passive and discrete component selection, application and circuit protect solution in power.

Infineons ESD Simulation Models with Advanced Design System (ADS) features contains a comprehensive library of models of TVS Diodes to support a fast and accurate circuit design. The models include packages parasitic components such as bond wire inductances and resistances. Click here for enter the Infineon ESD Simulation Models.

This report provides general information on purchasing trend of product segments including Analog, Discrete, Embedded, Logic, Connectors etc. Contact your local Arrow sales representative to find out how Arrow can help you manage inventory assets more effectively and increase your supply chain efficiency.

The automotive industry is transitioning from nickel-metal hydride battery solutions to lithium-ion (Li-ion) due to Li-ions superior energy and power capabilitiesin hybrid and pure electric vehicles. Typically micro/mild hybrid vehicles require batteries that can deliver between 60V to 200V. NiMH still has some advantages at these lower voltage and energy requirements. However, battery packs of 300 V are typically required in full hybrid/plug-in hybrid or pure electric vehicles, in which Li-ion is the favored solution.

The process of obtaining PKE position information that is both accurate and precise is not a trivial effort. This paper explored the many factors that affect response time, accuracy and repeatability, and why they must be considered during the design process. Fortunately, electronic solutions exist today that integrate and enable the implementation of the principles described in this article. One such solution is the Atmel ATA5790, an embedded AVR microcontroller including complete LF functionality for PEG keys.

EPCOS (China) Investment Ltd A Member of TDK-EPC Corporation, is supplying power capacitors from EPCOS for the Velaro high-speed trains that Siemens is building for the Chinese state railway. They will be used in the resonant circuits of the traction converters. This fourth series of high-speed trains is known in China as the CRH3 and is based on the German ICE 3. TDK-EPC has supplied EPCOS resonant circuit capacitors for a total of over 1000 traction converters.

Auto manufacturers recognize now that the car is also the newest mobile technology platform and that consumers look at ICE media control systems as a reason to choose one car over another. So, they are making huge investments and staking their future success on ICE systems. Many new functions are being supported my automotive networks but what about those cars already on the road? Fortunately integrated circuit (IC) products are available to allow in car systems to operate in an aftermarket application.

This article aims to highlight some of the major issues of metering SoC (System on Chip) design and also propose some possible solutions to achieve the intended goals. It also aims to make the SoC designer aware of the challenges beforehand so that he/she could attack them head-on and an effective solution can be rolled out.

Vision and telemetry safety applications are important growth areas in Automotive Electronics Systems. Car cameras and radar help prevent accidents, and these add-on features are likely to become a requirement in many areas in the world. With the combination of an OEM-driven marketing effort, a government mandate, and a benefit to public safety, growth in automotive segment is anticipated.

The APD product line was orginally designed to meet the automotive norm DIN72585 (now ISO15170), and is now an ideal fit when the military specification requirements are removed. This line is readily available and covers a wide range of layouts are required technical features such as high vibration resistance, resistance to fluids, and high sealing grades up to IP67/ IP69K.

The vehicle battery packs are then built with carefully selected batteries to improve the total cell to cell matching in the pack. This should theoretically prevent large amounts of imbalance from developing in the battery pack, but despite this, the general consensus is that when building a large battery pack, both battery monitoring and battery balancing is required to maintain a high battery capacity for the lifetime of the battery pack.

With increasing complexity of electronic systems, one of the most important winning features of modern integrated circuits (ICs) is Quality. This is what most customers recognize and expect. NXP acknowledges that in the Customer Focused Passion to Win approach. This article describes the way NXP Semiconductors addresses EOS/ESD/NTF, as part of NXP s Total Customer Quality Framework with State-of-the-Art customer support.

This design note illustrates an automotive right and left side-view mirror control design using two NCV7703 triple H-bridge motor drivers and one 250 mA low dropout (LDO) voltage regulator NCV8518A. The MCU communicates with the NCV7703 via SPI for driver operation and diagnostics. Two DC motors control the horizontal and the vertical movement of a side-view mirror. Protection in this design includes under-load detection, over current protection, reverse battery protection and ESD suppression.

Renesass RL78 Low-Power MCUs designed for automotive applications. Its drawing from both the 78K and the R8C to realize advanced specification. Ideal for body, sub-MCU of powertrain etc., and car audio.

Aligning with environmental friendly requirement, more more electric automobiles will be launched, this incurs the shifting of traditional mechanical dashboard into digital type. Sharp develops her instrument panel so as to fulfill the market needs. Also, in order to overcome the requirements imposed by harsh conditions, Sharps LCDs employ new technology which provide a high degree of reliability in punishing environments.

Standard car radios have evolved into sophisticated infotainment systems containing secondary tuners which receive data for navigation systems. Radio components in todays vehicles must be cost-effective but with high levels of performance. Car radio designers need to consider a wide range of performance requirements and new technologies in their designs. This paper examines Silicon Labs expertise in next-generation radio requirements of sensitivity, selectivity/dynamic bandwidth control, IP3, AF check, FM multipath handling and channel equalizers, FM phase diversity and AM/FM HD radio technology.

Electronics inside cars are clearly driving most of today s automobile design innovations. This article will first highlight some automotive design /reliability constraints followed by a review of digital cluster architectures and how memory subsystem tradeoffs could impact your next projects performance, reliability and cost.

In this article, we will discuss one such utility of these systems in fleet management systems wherein fleet owners may keep track of their vehicles location and status ensuring security and safety of the vehicles and increase the business productivity by better communication and tracking.

Making and breaking live DC power with electrical connectors and switches is becoming increasingly important in more applications and at higher power levels. The resettable PPTC device, in wide use as an overtemperature and overcurrent protection device, has now found use as an arc-suppression element in HVdc connectors.

TI offers a complete Central Body Control solutions for your automotive applications. The central body controller supervises and controls automotive body and convenience functions and works as a gateway for CAN and LIN networks. It allows designers to reduce the number of electronic control units in vehicles through higher component integration,as well as enhancing the performance, power efficiency and flexibility of body and convenience functions.