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Software

COTS and OSS Promote Cost-Effective Custom Vision-System Design (Part 2)

COTS-based machine-vision systems reduce time-to-market while providing more robust solutions. Part 2 looks at how open-source software can be leveraged to meet those goals.
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Automotive

What’s New with Automotive Grade Linux?

The latest updates in Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) development include VirtIO integration and the adoption of Flutter for modern vehicle interfaces.
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Power

Smart Ideal Diodes Protect Car Battery Front-Ends

Discover the most effective solutions for protecting car batteries from reverse polarity and how smart diode controllers can play a significant role in making that happen.
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Power

Transforming Electric Vehicles: The Doubly-Fed SYNCHRO-SYM Motor (Part 1)

Learn about the brushless SYNCHRO-SYM, which revolutionizes electric motors by offering twice the power density and octuple the peak torque at half the cost and half the loss ...
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Defense

Navy to Evaluate Solar Power for Submarines @mwrf.com

The nation’s defense goes “green” by reducing use of diesel and nuclear fuel in submarines.
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Automotive

Smarter Tire Tactics: Predictive Monitoring Plus Automatic Inflation

Aperia’s Halo Connect i3 is an integrated automatic inflation solution for truck tires.
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Power

Pinpointing the Best DC-DC Converter for Your EV Design

The complexity of EVs leads to demands for multiple kinds of voltages, all of which must be derived from the main battery. So, conversion and management of current and voltage...
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Automotive

“Squib” Driver IC Helps Ensure Rapid EV/HEV Battery-Pack Cutoff

Developed by Texas Instruments, this IC initiates battery cutoff via a pyro, non-thermal fusing device.
Power

PowerBites: Silicon Still Matters, Hybrid-Electric Aircraft and More

This edition of PowerBites brings you new developments in hybrid-electric aircraft and a V2G standard, MOSFET moves, silicon and SiC advances, plus more.
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Machine Learning

Edge AI Unlocks a Safer World with Smarter Video Cameras

The convergence of high-powered edge AI and smarter video cameras revolutionizes vision systems in their delivery of real-time awareness and responses.