January 13, 2025 - Electronic Design Today

Automotive technology drives innovation at CES 2025 in Vegas, as evidenced by the major software and hardware announcements from BMW, Intel, and NVIDIA.

Arduino is partnering with chip startup Axelera to bring machine learning out of the cloud and into IoT devices based on its Pro hardware.

Honda unveiled two new electric vehicles at CES 2025: the Honda 0 Saloon and the Honda 0 SUV. A partnership with Renesas was also announced, where advanced processors will support...

Diodes Inc.’s AEC-Q100-qualified automotive, 26-V, 400-kHz bandwidth uni/bidirectional, low- and high-side current monitors come in SOT25/SOT26 packages.

Nexperia’s next-gen smart voltage translators feature glitch-free auto-detection, wide voltage range, and low-quiescent power consumption.

Andy highlights some new electric-vehicle-related announcements at CES 2025.

Challenges surrounding battery packaging architecture include dealing with packaging space, thermal management, and optimizing battery-management systems.

Automotive-qualified 40-V MOSFETs improve the efficiency and ruggedness for motor drives and DC-DC converters throughout the vehicle, as well as for cordless appliances and tools...

The four-phase PWM controller pairing with Alpha and Omega’s benchmark DrMOS exhibits the best system efficiency for NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPU platforms.

The final part of this series describes a bench setup suitable for K2-W measurements for model verification and looks at the results from tests performed. It also offers follow...

Featuring three independent outputs, automotive-grade protection and reliability, on-chip NVM, and embedded diagnostics, this device can support almost any type of control module...

A new graphene-based interconnect technology developed by Destination 2D promises to help ICs overcome the limitations imposed by today’s copper-based processes.

The USB-C charger/port controller platform offers high efficiency and robust safety features for power tools, portable vacuums, lawn mowers, two-wheelers, and more.

A flyback-based switching architecture enables USB-C chargers to generate up to 240 W from a single 1C port.

Knowing when to invest in purpose-built drives with a controlled bill of materials can help mitigate these risks.

A new die-attach process promises to cool power devices up to 15X more efficiently while reducing failure-inducing stresses caused by conventional sintering techniques.

Significant numbers of engineers are going the freelance route, both contract and part-time. What does this mean?

One of the main targets for CXL is memory expansion.