Automotive

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Nexperia
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Nexperia’s new X.PAK packaging combines high thermal performance, compact size, and easy assembly for high-power applications.
Dreamstime
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Navitas’s bidirectional drivers enable advanced “single-stage” topologies to further enhance efficiency, power density, and performance in AC-DC and AC-AC conversion.
Hennessey
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Multiple motors and independent control of each wheel of an EV provides optimal performance and handling. But the complexities of implementation should be understood so that results...
Microchip
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Why reinvent the wheel? Microchip’s modular development ecosystem makes designing custom electric two-wheel transportation solutions easier, faster, and much more fun.
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Cambridge GaN Devices’s hybrid architecture for power modules combines gallium-nitride and IGBT devices to give EV designers an efficient, affordable solution for drivetrains ...
MISRA C & C++ is for More than Just Automotive
Though MISRA C/C++ is associated with automotive design, the programming language works with any embedded application.
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The new EV battery system from BYD charges at the fastest rate in the world for a production vehicle at 2 km/s.
Ampaire
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We look at the various configurations of batteries, electric motors, and internal combustion engines that can be used to construct a hybrid propulsion system.
Renesas
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Hands-off and hands-on detection recognizes when the driver grips the steering wheel.