Battery-stack-monitor ICs scrutinize the cells

Electric-vehicle and data-center batteries need precise measurements using robust chips.

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* Departments and Columns
     Bakers Best
      o Remote photo sensing
     Mechatronics In Design
      o You can't just say it's reliable
     Prying Eyes
      o The Schauer TB10012 battery charger
     Tales From The Cube
      o Go ahead. Make my day!
     edn.comment
      o Changing times, steady goals

* Design Ideas
      o Generate noisy sine waves with a sound card
      o Oscillator has voltage-controlled duty cycle
      o Decode a quadrature encoder in software
      o Power an LED driver using off-the-shelf components

* Features
     Design Feature
      o Hardware-based virtualization eases design with multicore processors
      o Managing signal integrity in tomorrow's high-speed flash-memory-system designs


* Pulse
      o Microcontrollers operate as fast as 120 MHz
      o EDA tool accelerates place and route for SOCs
      o Samsung sampling 400-GB MLC SSDs
      o Gartner predicts Indian PC shipments to grow 25% in 2011
      o Development kit tackles multi-dc/dc control strings for white and RGB LEDs
      o Ambarella augments image-processing foundation with increasing integration
      o Chinese company increases OLED lifetime