What Wavefront Marketing Does
Wavefront Marketing produces timely and intriguing content of critical relevance to electronics design engineers. Based on newly available product announcements, technology disclosures, market analyses and interviews we create quick hitting articles and blogs that all electronics design engineers need to know about to make the right design decisions, select the right system architecture or target the next application or market area.
Wavefront Marketing specializes in short articles, and blogs that are easily ‘consumed’ by busy engineers. Converting often ‘dry’ technical topics into short and to the point articles that highlight why the key points are important to the electronics engineers current work or future plans is Wavefront Marketing’s difference from the typical publication.
Here are some examples that illustrate the Wavefront Marketing difference; the first two paragraphs are provided along with a link to the full article where it was originally published. These pieces illustrate typical technology overviews, product round-ups and product release announcements:
What it Means to be a Smart City in 2018
Transportation, Energy, and Sustainability are at the Forefront of Advances
The word “smart” can seemingly precede anything these days. We have smartphones, smart TVs, and smart homes — a series of common things progressively larger in size and scope moving into the smart domain. We can get even larger, too — smart cities have become a part of the lexicon now. What exactly makes a city smart? Below are a few examples of what smart cities can offer:
Residents or visitors to any major urban area know how difficult it can be to find parking, but many cities around the world are incorporating smart meters. These are parking stations that allow citizens to find available parking spaces using an app available for their cellphones. These meters accept many forms of digital payment and will even send a text alert when your time is about to run out, allowing you to pay for more time from wherever you are. The days of running out to the meter to put more coins into the slot will soon be a thing of the past.
https://www.electronicproducts.com/Education/Design/What_it_means_to_be_a_smart_city_in_2018.aspx
12-Switch LED Matrix Manager Targets Automotive Lighting
Addresses Thermal Issues and Space Constraints in Automotive Matrix Lighting and Adaptive Driving Beam LED Applications
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. has developed a 12-switch matrix manager that offers automotive designers greater flexibility and smaller solution sizes while boasting the lowest internal switch resistance on the market, according to the company. The MAX20092 is optimized for high-performance automotive lighting and adaptive driving beam LED applications.
The MAX20092 can drive LED currents of up to 1.5 A and features 12 integrated switches that can manage LEDs in string voltages up to 56 V while offering an integrated MOSFET on resistance (RDS_ON) of 70 mΩ, a figure that Maxim claims is 65% lower than its nearest competitors can provide.
Product Roundup: High-Reliability Capacitors
New Capacitor Products from Knowles, KEMET, and TDK
Capacitors are one of the many electronic devices that don’t get as much respect as they deserve. Without these workhorse devices, your design wouldn’t have power and be able to withstand power-line noise or generate most analog signals. In high-reliability applications, it can be critical to find capacitors with stable and precise characteristics. This roundup looks at a few of the most recent announcements of capacitors with high precision and stability.
Knowles Novacap High-Reliability MLCCs
The Novacap multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) from Knowles are RoHS-compliant, high-capacitance BME MLC chip capacitors manufactured in stable Class II dielectrics X7R and X5R. They have a capacitive range from 6.8 nF up to 100 μF with tolerances of ±10% and ±20%.
Because of the extremely low equivalent series resistance (ESR) characteristics, the MLCCs can be used as replacements for tantalum and low-ESR electrolytic capacitors without polarity concerns, according to the company.