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Lee Teschler, Machine Design
At a starting MSRP below $19,000, Toyota’s Prius c provides an affordable gateway into hybrid vehicle ownership. Toyota's David Lee discusses what technology the company used to bring the price point down yet maintain the efficiency of its proven Hybrid Synergy Drive system.
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Kenneth A. Kuhn, Xylem Inc.
In-depth design analysis covers one-pot applications for the Hall network, including a notch filter, a bandpass filter, and a low-distortion sinewave oscillator.
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Don Tuite, Analog/Power Editor
While several companies have been promising 600-V gallium-nitride (GaN) devices for a while, Transphorm is the first to announce an actual product with real pricing and delivery information. So, designers can get to work crafting some hyper-efficient power supplies.
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Bob Bell and Ajay Hari, National Semiconuctor
Topologies once used only in high power applications are now being applied into much lower power, high power density, and small form factor solutions.
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Majid Dadafshar and Jinho Choi, Fairchild Semiconductor
A well-defined procedure for predicting EMI in ac-dc power-supply designs and bringing it within regulatory limits saves time and effort versus the trial-and-error methods that designers may be using.
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ED News Staff
Do you have a simple and practical solution to a common design problem? We want to hear about it! And so do our readers, making our Ideas for Design one of the most popular departments in Electronic Design. Submit your idea, and you may see it in an upcoming issue. Contributors receive $150. For details, check out our submission guidelines.
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Roger Allan, Contributing Editor
Thanks to its patented thermal heated-gas principle of measuring acceleration and the use of novel ball-grid-array (BGA) and wafer-level packaging (WLP), the MEMSIC MXC626Xc breaks records in size and cost. The two-axis, ±2-g (X/Y) accelerometer produces an 8-bit digital output in a tiny package that measures 1.2 by 1.7 by 1.0 mm at a single-unit OEM price of just 35 cents ($0.35).
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