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Reference Design Creates Safer & More Sustainable BMS
Batteries

Reference Design Creates Safer, More Sustainable BMS

The 54-cell reference design demonstrates how integrating Dukosi’s cell-monitoring system with C-SynQ for BMS host processors create simpler, safer, and more sustainable battery...
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What's the Difference in MISRA C and MISRA C++?
Software

What’s the Difference Between MISRA C and MISRA C++?

C and C++ are very different, and the MISRA guidelines address those disparities.
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Inside Electronics

Can Rust Work for Safety-Critical Embedded Systems?

Ferrous Systems’s Florian Gilcher talks about the Rust programming language and safe software.
Tony Vitolo/Electronic Design
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Power

This Week in PowerBites: Next-Gen Batteries on the Horizon

This week’s PowerBites features two advances in battery technology plus a look at how electric marine propulsion is changing the shipping industry. And don’t forget to check out...
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Automotive

The Automotive Industry: Radical Change Ahead?

“Be careful of what you wish for,” goes the proverb. “You just might get it.” A look at the current climate of the auto industry.
Endeavor Business Media
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Software

Certifiable Rust

Ferrous Systems’s Ferrocene brings Rust into the safe and secure embedded space.
Bourns
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Power

AEC-Q200-Compliant Shielded Power Inductors Meet Automotive Needs

Designed with ferrite core and ferrite shield for low magnetic-field radiation, Bourns’s high-current inductors provide reliability and low noise operation.
Merging SiC MOSFETs & IGBTs for EV Traction Inverters
Power

New Power Module Integrates SiC MOSFETs and IGBTs to Cut EV Costs

In power electronics, silicon carbide beats silicon in most of the metrics that count, except cost. Infineon is trying to tackle the problem with the first fusion power module...
Power Integrations
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Power

Switcher IC Targets 800-V Auto Apps with Advanced Wide-Creepage Package

Featuring a SiC primary power switch, this 1,700-V flyback switcher IC is now available in low-creepage, automotive-grade packaging that meets the IEC60664-1 isolation standard...