There are many industry experts that believe Lidar sensing will help to improve the safe operation of autonomous cars but whether it will win over the vast majority of dubious drivers remains to be seen. Currently most drivers say they don’t want to be driven...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 11-08-2016

A power management IC that can implement a buck or buck/boost regulator to convert automotive battery voltages into a tightly regulated voltage whilst providing changes between buck and boost modes has been developed by Allegro MicroSystems Europe. Designated...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 09-08-2016

A power management IC that can implement a buck or buck/boost regulator to convert automotive battery voltages into a tightly regulated voltage whilst providing changes between buck and boost modes has been developed by Allegro MicroSystems Europe. Designated...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 09-08-2016

Yoshimasa Goto, Product Engineer at Murata, explains how technical innovation has produced high-capacitance MLCCs, suitable for smoothing applications. The vast majority of applications today, use an AC power adapter or AC/DC power supply to provide a DC vo...

By Yoshimasa Goto | 08-08-2016

Forums, blogs, links, direct mail, downloads. There now exists a true plethora of routes to find the information you need online. How the world has changed since the days when sales execs would arrive on a company’s doorstep armed with data books, product sele...

Articles | By Nigel Watts | 04-08-2016

Forums, blogs, links, direct mail, downloads. There now exists a true plethora of routes to find the information you need online. How the world has changed since the days when sales execs would arrive on a company’s doorstep armed with data books, product sele...

Insights | By Nigel Watts | 04-08-2016

A microcontroller is the natural choice for designers who want to develop embedded applications that need to bring together, analyze and act on real-time data. But when you want to get a prototype together as quickly as possible, you want a microcontroller fam...

Environment | By Paul Whytock | 03-08-2016

Japanese industrial automation, test and measurement and software company Yokogawa Electric Corporation is investing in a Californian startup called FogHorn Systems, a developer of fog computing technology. But what exactly is fog computing and why is it neede...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 03-08-2016

Japanese industrial automation, test and measurement and software company Yokogawa Electric Corporation is investing in a Californian startup called FogHorn Systems, a developer of fog computing technology. But what exactly is fog computing and why is it neede...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 03-08-2016

The latest generation of its BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory has been launched by Toshiba and the company says it is the first 64-layer device in the world to start sample shipments. The device has a stacked cell structure which is said to create significant densit...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 28-07-2016

The latest generation of its BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory has been launched by Toshiba and the company says it is the first 64-layer device in the world to start sample shipments. The device has a stacked cell structure which is said to create significant densit...

Insights | By Paul Whytock | 28-07-2016

The answer of course is they will not. The plan is to just drop the package at your doorstep. Tricky if you live in a multi-story block of apartments. Amazon may be testing the idea of delivering packages by drone but don’t expect the service to start anytime...

Articles | By Paul Whytock | 27-07-2016