Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. recently announced a new series of 1500-W surface-mount automotive transient voltage suppressors with the industry's lowest profile of 1.1 mm, and breakdown voltages from 6.8 V to 43 V. Featuring the eSMP(TM) TO-277A package, the TPC series offers a 27 percent smaller footprint than devices in the traditional SMC packageIdeal for automated … [Read more...]
Low Power Digital Optocouplers for Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Avago Technologies, a supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, recently announced a pair of automotive-grade high speed, low power, digital CMOS optocouplers for use in Hybrid Electric Vehicles. The design of the IC provides excellent electrostatic discharge (ESD) performance of 4kV Human Body Model (HBM) and 400V … [Read more...]
Semiconductors Bring New Levels of Performance to In-Vehicle Networks
NXP Semiconductors recently announced the release of the UJA107x family, its second generation of CAN/LIN System Basis Chips (SBCs) for in-vehicle networks. The UJA107x SBCs optimize the performance, power consumption and cost of electronic control units (ECUs) for a broad range of automotive applications, such as body control modules, climate control, seat control, electric … [Read more...]
New Immunity Test Software Provides Increased Functionality
Teseq Inc., a developer and provider of instrumentation and systems for EMC emission and immunity testing, recently announced a major upgrade to its AutoStar software, a comprehensive, integrated immunity test management program now in its fifth version. New standard features of AutoStar 5.0 that significantly increase functionality and usability include a new "overview" … [Read more...]
Mass Transit Station Zaps Commuter’s Car?
In a recent column in a San Francisco Bay Area newspaper, a commuter commented that on several occasions, as he passed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station, his car lost power. “I push on the accelerator but the car doesn't respond, quite a nerve-racking experience in the middle of evening rush hour,” the commuter said. “Since this hasn't happened to me anywhere else at … [Read more...]
EMI Shielding Molded Into Plastic Car Radio Cases
Delphi Automotive may replace numerous sheet metal enclosures for electronics in cars and elsewhere with plastic. Plastic cases replace formed sheet metal cases assembled with screws and cooled with fans. The new plastic cases achieve required EMI and RFI shielding by completely enclosing electronics with a mesh Faraday cage that is insert molded.Learn more at Design News. … [Read more...]
New Tool for Automotive Transient Testing
AR's TGAR is a transient generator test system for performing transient tests on automotive parts and components. One of TGAR's features is its ability to adapt to ever-changing specifications. Now AR has created the ARTool, which is used in conjunction with TGAR to produce nearly any custom battery pulse, thereby enhancing the flexibility of the TGAR system. The new custom … [Read more...]
Consortium to Develop Standard for Distributed System Interface
DENSO Corporation, Freescale Semiconductor and TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. have established an industry consortium to drive further development and deployment of the Distributed Systems Interface (DSI) standard. With this announcement, the DSI Consortium unveils DSI 2.5, the next-generation standard. The Consortium will also work to develop the DSI 3.0, which will aim to … [Read more...]
Application-Specific Multilayer Varistor Series
AVX Corporation has developed-application specific multilayer varistors for automotive, industrial, military, mobile handset, telecommunication, heavy equipment, appliance, and consumer product applications. AVX can also design and manufacture custom varistors if the design requires specific performance and environmental characteristics not available in the standard product … [Read more...]
LED Driver Said to Reduce Cost of EMI Filter Components
A common EMI challenge in automotive applications is avoiding interference of an electronic circuit with the AM radio. Maxim Integrated Products says its new MAX16814 allows users to program the switching frequency from 200kHz to 2MHz, thus enabling operation above the AM radio band. In addition, its oscillator-synchronization feature minimizes EMI noise when multiple MAX16814s … [Read more...]
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