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The portfolio of AEC-Q200 qualified products at Farnell element14 has been expanded with the addition of components from AVX, Bourns, Kemet, Murata, Panasonic and Vishay. These include capacitors, resistors, inductors and other passives. AEC-Q200 qualified passives have been designed for automotive electronics applications where reliability and stability are required in challenging conditions of high temperature, temperature changes, pressure res...

Part one of this article described the problem, showed the impact of a cold start test pulse on an automotive power supply and discussed a typical pre-booster specification. This second part provides guidance on proper part selection of all relevant components. It also shows the reaction of a pre-booster on a cold crank test pulse and the impact of its error amplifier. By Matthias Ulmann, Texas Instruments.

Steve Rogerson looks at some of the recent news that may have missed the front page.

The report from IDTechEx Research, Lithium-ion Batteries 2016-2026, finds that at around $140bn in 2026, the Li-ion battery business will dominate the battery business. By Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx.

The PCIM Europe 2016 exhibition taking place in Nuremburg in May, will see Panasonic introduce a range of technologies, from the new X-GaN gate driver, the LDPGS thermal management solution, new power choke coils in 12x12 case size for high current automotive applications, as well as the latest capacitors and resistors for high power applications.

Kiwi Plug is a simple device that plugs into the audio jack of your smartphone or tablet (Android or IOS) in order to turn it into a universal remote. Kiwi Plug works with hundreds of brands and any device controlled by IR, including TVs, air-conditioners, speakers, cameras etc. from brands including LG, Motorola and Panasonic.

This year’s PCIM exhibition introduced a whole host of new power products, technologies and applications. Sally Ward-Foxton reports from Nuremberg.This year’s PCIM (power conversion, intelligent motion) exhibition in Nuremberg brought together 436 exhibitors and more than 10,000 visitors from around the world to share the latest in power products, technologies and applications.

The 2015 analogue market grew 2% to $47.0bn. Combined sales of general-purpose analogue products (amplifiers/comparators, interface, power management and signal conversion devices) increased 2% to $19.1bn and sales of application-specific analogue devices also improved 2% to $27.9bn. Among analogue IC products, the market for signal conversion devices showed the largest increase in 2015, growing 14% to $2.9bn.

Broadcom Limited has announced a new generation of 5A gate drive optocoupler devices, the ACPL-352J and ACNW3430, designed for a wide range of industrial applications including motor drives and power inverters. The devices feature superb common mode transient immunity (CMTI) of up to 100kV/μs, preventing erroneous gate driver failures in noisy environments. Both the ACPL-352J and ACNW3430 support up to 5A rail-torail output current, which elim...

According to the latest analysis by Semicast Research, Harman and Panasonic led the automotive entertainment systems vendor share ranking in 2015, ahead of Alpine, Bosch, Clarion and Continental. Collectively these six suppliers are estimated to have accounted for two-thirds of shipments to this market last year. The major news however is the growing influence of Apple and Google in the auto market.