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Automotive

Hands-Off Detection IC Enhances ADAS Safety

Hands-off and hands-on detection recognizes when the driver grips the steering wheel.
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.
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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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Power

Rugged General-Purpose Chip Resistors Help Shrink Auto, Industrial Apps

ROHM’s new resistor family achieves equivalent rated power in a smaller size with a guaranteed stable long-term supply.
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...