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Chris Hills, CTO of Phaedrus Systems and a member of the MISRA C working group discusses the new MISRA C:2012 guidelines. In this article from ES Design magazine, Chris also looks at why, on their own, they are not that useful.

The European Commission has initiated a significant tightening of the energy-efficiency directive for electrical devices, leaving more users of drive technology faced with new challenges. By providing comprehensive information, fast, expert support, and suitable drive products, NORD DRIVESYSTEMS aims to enable machinery and equipment manufacturers to continue producing economically compelling solutions that comply with all regulations.

Renishaw has announced it will launch its SPRINT high-speed analogue contact scanning system for CNC machine tools, in autumn 2013. The SPRINT system incorporates a new generation of on-machine analogue scanning technology that will deliver a step-change in the benefits of process control, enabling fast and accurate form and profile data capture from both prismatic and complex 3D components.

Atollic today announced the latest release of the Atollic TrueSTUDIO integrated development environment. Incorporating many new features, Atollic TrueSTUDIO v4.1 aims to even further assist embedded developers to write code of the highest quality.

Consider a future where trucks and buses are continuously supplied with electric power without carrying large batteries. Instead, power lines are built into the surface of the road. This could be a future solution for long-distance trucks and buses running on electricity.

AMD today unveiled its most powerful member of the legendary AMD FX family of FX family of CPUs, the world’s first commercially available 5 GHz CPU processor, the AMD FX-9590. These 8-core CPUs deliver new levels of gaming and multimedia performance for desktop enthusiasts. AMD FX-9000 Series CPUs will be available initially in PCs through system integrators.

With Continental's Simplify your Drive, electric vehicles can now learn how to calculate the range in advance. At the push of a button, the driver can set the electric vehicle to his own requirements.

Rhode & Schwarz has launched the mid-range R&S ZNB20 and R&S ZNB40 vector network analysers for frequency ranges from 100 kHz to 20 GHz and from 1 MHz to 40GHz. The analysers are equipped with two test ports and offer measurement characteristics that are on a similar level as high-end instruments.

Infineon Technologies highlights its 650V TRENCHSTOP 5 at the PCIM Europe 2013 in Nuremberg. Since the introduction of this next generation thin wafer IGBT (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) in the autumn of 2012, the TRENCHSTOP 5 has attained strong market attention and is recognized as a game changing technology.

Safety, security and ultra-low power were the overriding themes of this year’s Embedded World Exhibition and Conference, which took place to great success between February 25th to 27th in Nürnberg, Germany. Philip Ling reports for ES Design magazine.