Matt LaDuke with over 7 years of automotive electronics experience, earned his Master's Degree of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan at Dearborn in 1997, and studied for his Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. Matt is now a Product Design Engineer for a Tier One automotive supplier working primarily with semiconductors. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers. If you would like to ask Matt a question or simply give comment, click here.

Don't TREAD on Me As a result of the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation (TREAD) Act, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently established a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard that requires the installation of tire-pressure monitoring systems (TPMSs) to warn the driver when a tire is significantly underinflated. The standard applies to passenger cars, trucks, multipurpose passenger vehicles, and buses with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less, except those vehicles with dual wheels on an axle. This mandate is giving rise to a new market of components for the vehicle. Included are many electronic and a mechanical solution to make our cars safer.   Click here to read the complete article.

X-FAB Introduces New 0.35 µm Low-Voltage, Mixed-Signal CMOS Process with Embedded EEPROM 0.35 µm Technology Features New Mixed-Signal Properties X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG announced that it has expanded its technology offering to include a new 0.35 µm mixed-signal CMOS process (XC035LV) with low-voltage and nonvolatile memory capability. The new 0.35 µm low-voltage/embedded EEPROM CMOS process is supported with comprehensive design kits for Cadence, Verilog, Vital, and Synopsys environments, as well as typical and worst-case simulation models. The new process family is available immediately to X-FAB customers, and will find a wide application range for highly integrated circuits in the communications, consumer, automotive, and industrial sectors. Texas Instruments and iBiquity Announce the Availability of the Industry's First Chip for HD Radio™ Technology The industry's first digital baseband chip enabling HD Radio™ technology, formerly known as In Band On Channel (IBOC), is available today from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN). The chip handles all of the baseband processing required for HD Radio™. The new product, which combines TI's expertise in digital signal processing and iBiquity Digital Corporation's patented IBOC digital AM and FM technology, trademarked HD Radio™, will enable radio manufacturers to incorporate the new digital reception technology into home and car receivers for U.S. retail launch in 2003 and for automakers in 2004. An IBOC Digital Module (IDM), incorporating TI's solution with all the hardware and software needed to process the HD Radio™ baseband signal, is also available from iBiquity for radio manufacturers to deploy in new digital receivers. Supertex Introduces Second FlexSwitch IC—Enables Smallest LED Drivers for Emerging Lighting and Industrial Applications Supertex, Inc. released the HV9906, an off-line power-supply controller IC, the second in Supertex's new family of FlexSwitch controller ICs. It enables designers to create ultra small power supplies that can operate continuously at high temperatures to drive a wide variety of LED applications that include traffic and street lights, emergency lights and exit signs, automotive head/tail lights, counter and decorative lighting, LED backlights for laptops and instrumentation, as well as other applications such as battery chargers, industrial sensors, and programmable logic controllers (PLC) for embedded systems and controls.

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