Modest economy and emissions gains, when spread out, can become significant.

Inductive touch sensing allows users with gloves, and on surfaces that contain liquids, to activate electronic functions on panels made of plastic, stainless steel, or aluminum.

These excerpts from an excellent book will help you learn how to be effective at that elusive but critical engineering skill of hardware and software debugging

Sensors and logic anticipate a crash and activate a motorized seat belt retractor to secure a shoulder belt around an occupant.

Freescale Semiconductor has introduced a family of inertia sensors that can improve performance, sensitivity, and reliability of next-gen airbag systems.

In automotive lighting applications, Solid-state switches offer many advantages over mechanical relays. The paper explain these properties, using Freescale's Gen III eXtreme Switch product family as an example.

Telescopic nanotubes could offer molecular-sized bit cells that are as fast as SRAM but nonvolatile like flash by harnessing concentric nanotubes that turn bits on and off by running current through the tubes to make the inner one stick out or stay inside the outer nanotube.

Beginning 2009, Formula-One racing cars can be equipped with energy recovery systems similar to what is in today's hybrid drive cars. Freescale Semiconductor and McLaren Electronic Systems (MES) will collaborate to develop the complex systems for next-gen racing vehicles.

Processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) came to a hotel adjacent to the Electronica exhibition here and announced the availability of the Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS), a hardware abstraction layer for the Cortex-M processor series.

This excerpt from the book "Electric Motors and Drives: Fundamentals, Types and Applications" looks at the performance, characteristics and control arrangements of chopper-fed dc motor drives.

Linear's 45V, 2.5MHz DC/DC boost mode converter can drive up to six strings of LEDs, each with up to ten 30mA white LEDs in series while delivering efficiencies up to 90%.

In 2028, smart, green automobiles drive on intelligent highways, and savvy users demand quality.

Three new high-density FPGA PCI Express platforms from Tokyo Electron Device (TED) reduce development period of FPGA based high-speed applications.

How the LME49810 can be adapted for use in high-end consumer and professional audio apps, from powered studio monitors & subwoofers to after-market audio, distributed audio & guitar amplifiers.

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