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• Extension Media Interview with Microchip's Joe Drzewiecki

  Editor Chris Ciufo spent time with Microchip software manager Joe Drzewiecki at the Spring DESIGN West show (formerly known as ESC). Microchip launched their new MPLAB X compiler strategy that now goes across all Microchip MCUs. It also adds a new license strategy, optimizations that compile 35 percent faster on 32-bit devices (or save 35 percent on code size). There's also a "totally free" version of the MPLAB X compiler. Check out the 3 minute video.

• Texas Instruments' DESIGN West interview: From ANT to ZigBee

  At DESIGN West 2012 (aka "ESC" San Jose), Senior Editor Chris A. Ciufo sat down with TI's Matt Kurtz, Manager, Wireless Connectivity Group. Matt's group's job is to add wireless capabilities to microcontrollers with "everything from ANT to ZigBee". Consider their SimpleLink initiative, which is comprised of chipsets, protocols, APIs and drivers that make easy the task of adding wireless to a TI microcontroller product. In this short video, Matt explains that TI's focus is one-stop-shopping and simplicity. Judging from market feedback, TI has met its goals.

• Magnetic-powered Trams in South Korea a World First

  Environmentally friendly trams use no fossil fuels and don't need overhead wires or cables. Instead, they're propelled by a magnetic field created by power lines embedded in the road. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology developed the system that uses shaped magnetic field in resonance (SMFIR) technology. The system avoids the recharging problem of standard electric vehicles.

• Driving Success in Energy Efficient Automotive System Design Overview

  Driving Success in Energy Efficient Automotive System Design Overview: captures TI's solutions for energy efficiency in transportation including hybrid and electric vehicles, battery management systems, digital isolators, microcontrollers, trasnceivers, op-amps, voltage regulators and DC-DC converters.

• Driving Success in Automotive Safety System Designs

  TI's Automotive Safety System Designs Overview: captures TI's solutions for safety systems in the automotive and transportation markets including analog and embedded processing solutions. Includes Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) withback-up cameras, ultrasonic parking assist systems, car-based radar systems, birds-eye camera, blind spot detection and more. Includes tire pressure monitoring systems, electronic power steering systems and stability control solutions.

• Driving Success in Automotive Infotainment System Designs

  Overview of TI's Solutions in Infotainment System Design: Includes basic radio, digital radio, high end audio, video and complete infotainment systems. Includes media controller, hands-free, audio processing, soft radio, video, navigation, amplifiers, CAN, LIN and high speed interfaces like USB and LVDS. Power management solutions integrate multiple supplies into one device to reduce overall size, provide efficiency and make necessary power sequencing easier.

• Smart Cities: Sustainable Urban Mobility-on-Demand

  Ryan Chin of MIT explains how a fleet of sharable, collapsible, rechargeable CityCars, GreenWheel bicycles, and RoboScooters can transform transportation in our most congested cities by operating within an intelligent, wireless grid that understands when, where, and how we want to travel.