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Seaward HAL104 shines in testing at industrial lighting company
One of the UK’s leading designers and manufacturers of weather and vandal resistant and security lighting has improved electrical safety test standards using the advanced ClareHAL 104 from Seaward.
Lighting Science Group Continues to Redefine Sustainable Lighting Design With Smaller Glimpse Downlight
Lighting Science Group introduced today a new version of its revolutionary Glimpse LED downlight. Mimicking the lumen (light) output of a 50 watt incandescent or halogen bulb in a downlight, the 9.5 watt Glimpse maintains the same top-tier performance that has come to differentiate the company's LED products from competitors like Cree, Philips and GE, while offering an improved, innovative thermal design that reduces the amount of raw materials n...
Digi-Key Corporation Announces New Stock of TE Connectivity’s NEVALO SSL System
Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry's broadest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, today announced it has stock of TE's innovative Solid State Lighting (SSL) solution – the NEVALO SSL system – designed to accelerate lighting manufacturers' transition from traditional light sources to new LED lighting fixtures.
Designing LCD Applications with NXP Cortex-M Products
NXP's LPC1788 microcontroller features the first ARM Cortex-M3 core with integrated graphic LCD controller currently shipping in the market today. This session introduced the LPC1788 and included discussing the graphical LCD controller and the LCD types it can efficiently drive, bandwidth considerations, as well as showed a LIVE demonstration of the LPC1788 operation using the supporting libraries from NXP and other third parties. Also, other pro...
Alps Develops and Commences Mass Production of “SDDH Series” Waterproof Switch Compatible With 4.5A Currents
Switches used in control elements, such as starters or stop lamp on/off switching, of motorbikes, buggies, other sports mobiles, and agricultural equipment require high water resistance so they can be used in the rain or immersed in water. Demand for switches compatible with weak through to medium currents is also on the rise due to increasing use of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for items like stop lamps on motorbikes.
Fujitsu Announces Powerful MCU for Automotive Instrument Clusters
Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe announces the expansion of its scalable line-up for automotive instrument clusters, covering everything from MCUs for traditional clusters up to 3D graphic Systems on Chips (SoC), and capable of driving virtual or free programmable clusters. Named MB9DF126 ‘Atlas’, the new 2MB Flash/208KB RAM MCU with APIX Interface and ARM core offers customers high performance and exceptional memory content. FSEU’s...
New Version Of Bosch Esi[tronic] Workshop Software Released With Simplified Operating Concept
Bosch has made a number of changes to the operating concept of the world's leading workshop software ESI[tronic], making it much simpler to use and giving it a clearer structure. The new interface of ESI[tronic] 2.0 takes the user to the information they require in fewer clicks of the mouse or stylus. The system search provides a clear overview of all control units fitted to the vehicle, along with all stored errors. Shortcuts allow the user to q...
Lauterbach announces early support for the new Freescale Qorivva MPC57xx and the STMicroelectronics SPC57x family MCUs
Lauterbach has added support for the new Freescale Qorivva MPC57xx and STMicroelectronics SPC57x family of automotive microcontrollers to its TRACE32® debugger
Safety-critical MCUs: what if things go wrong?
Microcontrollers used in vehicles’ safety critical systems need to meet stringent reliability standards. Sally Ward-Foxton takes a look at some of the safety features used in today’s automotive MCUs.
Toshiba Launches Development Platform for Embedded Motor Control in Automotive Designs
Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced an evaluation and development platform for embedded systems targeted at automotive motor control applications where compliance with the ISO 26262 functional safety standard is required.