£88m of joint industry and government funding has been announced for 46 vehicle-related CO2 reduction projects in the UK. Awarded through the UK’s Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), £44.5m is from the government and £43.5m from the automotive industry. “Congratulations to all the companies awarded funding in this latest round of competitions facilitated by the Department for Business and Trade and industry,” ...

Congatec has introduced COM Express Type 6 Compact computer-on-modules with AMD Ryzen Embedded 8000 processors, offering up to 39Top/s for AI processing. The processors have up to eight Zen 4 cores, 16Top/s XDNA NPUs and AI-capable Radeon RDNA 3 graphics with up to 12 compute units, and are available with design powers from 15 to 54W (see table below). Conga-TCR8 ...

NXP is aiming at ASIL D safety approval with a vehicle battery junction box controller IC, intended to fire the pyrotechnic disconnect switch during a serious fault, as well as report faults over a serial bus. MC33777A, as it will be known, redundantly measures currents, voltages and temperatures, then deduces situations – a short circuit or a crash, for example ...

  Infineon has announced a 5V version of its compact (13.8 x 14 x 7.5mm) CO2 sensor. “The sensor is based on the photoacoustic spectroscopy principle, where CO2 molecules within the sensor cavity absorb infrared light, generating small pressure changes that are detected by an acoustic detector,” according to the company. “CO2 concentration is then delivered in the form of ...

Allegro MicroSystems had introduced 1MHz bandwidth current sensors that can measure hundreds of amps – the first fruit of its acquisition of Crocus Technologies. The technology is tunneling magnetoresistance, and the sensors are intended to sit over the current-carrying PCB track to be measured. Output is a voltage linearly proportional to the current, responding within 300ns. There are two base ...

Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has revealed its third generation of structural lithium ion battery. “We have created a battery made of carbon fibre composite that is as stiff as aluminium and energy-dense enough to be used commercially, claimed Chalmers researcher Richa Chaudhary. First revealed with KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2018, by 2021 the material was achieving 24Wh/kg, ...

Aiming at vehicle traction, Infineon has put a pair of 3,300V 1,000A 1.9 mΩ silicon carbide trench mosfets into its 100 x 140 x 40mm ‘XHP 2’ module housing, calling the module FF2000UXTR33T2M1. This package is rated for 6kV testing, and achieves 2.6kV partial discharge extinction. Creepage is 40mm terminal to baseplate and 34mm between terminals. Clearance is 31 and ...

Pickering Interfaces, has announced a family of one-slot PXI and PXIe programmable resistor modules that can handle 2A, 200V or 15W. Models 40-254 (PXI) and 42-254 (PXIe) come in 28 variants, summarised as: two channel versions with various narrow resistance ranges, and then single channel versions with various narrow, medium or wide resistance ranges. PXI vVersions are compatible with PXI ...

NXP has combined short-range 6 – 8.5GHz UWB radar, secure ranging and angle-of-arrival processing on a single chip. Called SR250, it is for “a world that anticipates and automates, enabling a variety of new user experiences based on location, presence or motion detection across consumer or industrial IoT applications”, claimed the company. It is said to support 3D angle-of-arrival and ...

Infineon has announced seven 30V mosfets in TO-220 packaging. They are part of its StrongIRfet 2 family, which are less qualified that its industrially-rated Optimos devices. “The new power mosfets were designed to meet the requirements of mass market applications – switched-mode power supplies, motor drives, battery management systems and uninterruptible power supplies,” it said. Resistance and gate charge improvements ...