Half-Bridge TI Driver Improves Power System Performance In Hybrid Vehicles
Texas Instruments introduced the industry’s fastest 120-V automotive grade half-bridge gate driver with robust handling features.
Students Create Refrigerator Magnets That Recommend Movies Based On Your Cravings
Picture this: You're watching a movie, let's say about a fire, and you find yourself feeling hot so you want a nice cold beverage to cool off.
World’s Thinnest Solar Charger Slips Between Notebook Pages
While solar charges aren't a new innovation, this super-thin solar charger is so lightweight that it can fight directly between pages of a notebook without being noticed.
This electric beach umbrella doubles as a smartphone charger
Beach-goers have probably encountered two common problems: I can't get my beach umbrella to stay in the sand and my cellphone keeps dying with no outlet in sight.
Italian duo Nicolo' Bonomo and Fabrizio Beretta wanted to change that so…
Video of the Day: X-ray lasers send shock waves through diamond
This unique video captures a never-before-seen event caught by the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. A team of scientists have used an X-ray laser to record the microscopic motion and effects of shock waves…
Intersil Switching regulator delivers a 98% efficiency
Intersil Corporation announced the ISL9120, a buck-boost switching regulator that enables efficient power management of system power supplies and peripherals such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, memory cards or LCD modules. Its adaptive current limit…
Green Hills’ INTEGRITY RTOS available for Freescale’s i.MX 6 SABRE
Green Hills Software has extended its popular INTEGRITY automotive consolidation platform to the Freescale i.MX 6 series Smart Application Blueprint for Rapid Engineering (SABRE) for automotive infotainment board, giving carmakers and their…
Connectors from Positronic feature waterproofing & ingress protection
Positronic Releases IP67 Waterproof Mixed Density Combo-D Connector
The industry appetite for waterproof and ingress protection features is increasing. In keeping with this trend, Positronic has produced the WCBD Series, a waterproof…
Small-scale Micro-Measurements strain gauges test PCB reliability
Micro-Measurements, a Vishay Precision Group, launched three new small-scale strain gages designed to meet the growing demand for precise, stable, and reliable stress analysis of PCBs, even in harsh environments. The C2A-06-G1350-120…
High Efficiency LTPoE++ PD Linear Controllers Integrate Forward/Flyback Controller
Linear Technology Corporation introduces the LT4276 LTPoE++™, PoE+ and PoE-compliant powered device (PD) interface controllers for applications requiring 2W to 90W of delivered power.
The LT4276 integrates a PD controller and an isolated…