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By John Day, Newsletter Editor April 24, 2008 A Penton Media Publication
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 Table of Contents

Bosch: Safety is next frontier
Continental: Consumer trends impact
Renesas adds 50 32-bit MCUs
Solid-state devices perfect for high-current switching
National shrinks switching regulators
Melexis develops a 150 Mbps fiber-optic MOST transceiver
FCI SD-card connectors
CSR launches low-cost, full-featured Bluetooth reference design
Audi selects Hella lane change system
Upcoming Events

  Industry News
  Bosch: Safety is next frontier
April 24, 2008    
  Vehicle safety is “the next frontier” for automotive electronics, according to Jason Forcier, president North America, automotive electronics, Robert Bosch LLC. more >>

  Continental: Consumer trends impact
April 24, 2008    
  Also at SAE, Helmut Matschi, president of Continental's Interior Division, said that trends appearing in consumer culture are impacting the automotive industry and requiring suppliers to develop innovative, flexible and upgradable in-vehicle electronic architectures. more >>

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  Products
  Renesas adds 50 32-bit MCUs
By John Day
April 24, 2008    
  Renesas Technology America added 50 devices to its R32C/100 series of 32-bit microcontrollers, which are built around the R32C/100 32-bit CPU core at the high end of Renesas’ M16C family of complex instruction set computer (CISC) MCUs. more >>

  Solid-state devices perfect for high-current switching
April 24, 2008    
  For applications that require high-current switching – 100A to 1,000A – Perfect Switch, LLC offers a POWER-GATE series of solid-state DC relays and isolators. more >>

  National shrinks switching regulators
April 24, 2008    
  National Semiconductor Corp. has introduced two step-down switching regulators for use in automotive power adapters as well as handheld devices. more >>

  Melexis develops a 150 Mbps fiber-optic MOST transceiver
April 24, 2008    
  Melexis has developed the MLX75605, a single package solution for a 150 Mbps fiber-optic transceiver dedicated to the MOST150 physical layer, the specification for which (MOST Specification 3.0) was published last month by the MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transport) Cooperation. more >>

  FCI SD-card connectors
April 24, 2008    
  FCI has introduced an SD memory connector suitable for connecting removable storage devices into automotive multimedia systems. more >>

  CSR launches low-cost, full-featured Bluetooth reference design
April 24, 2008    
  CSR has introduced of RoadTunes, a feature-rich, fully interoperable Bluetooth hands-free package for Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) and in-car systems. more >>

  Design Wins
  Audi selects Hella lane change system
April 24, 2008    
  Audi has selected Hella’s 24-GHz radar-based lane-change warning system for the Audi A4, marking the sixth design win for the system. more >>

  Event Calendar
  Upcoming Events
  Design Automation Conference (DAC)
June 8-13, 2008
Anaheim, California

Freescale Technology Forum 2008
June 16-19, 2008
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Orlando, Florida

MOST Forum 2008
Sept. 30, 2008
Stuttgart, Germany

Convergence 2008
Oct. 20-22, 2008
Cobo Center
Detroit, Michigan

SEMA Show
Nov. 4-7, 2008
Las Vegas Convention Center

electronica 2008
Nov. 11-14, 2008

15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
Nov. 16-20, 2008
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
New York
more >>


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