Every time a new car launches, someone somewhere will try and improve on whatever its maker produced. Traditionally, this has meant improvements on things like seating, engine power and entertainment ...

Texas Instruments (TI), based in Dallas, has developed a battery-gauge chip that can tell mobile-phone users down to the minute how much talking or standby time they have left–a degree of accuracy ...

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Over the years, Windows has gotten progressively better at laptop power management–but it still doesn’t tell you much about your battery. Enter BatteryBar, a free, easy, ingenious power gauge that’s ...

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Members can download this article in PDF format. Portable and mobile products require sophisticated battery-management circuitry to extend battery life and avoid unexpected shutdowns. A key ...

So you’d kind of like to know when the battery in your bike is getting a bit flat, but you’re unsure how to proceed. This will go over creating a bike battery gauge that will turn on a bunch of visual ...

Smart phones and tablets are becoming indispensable as they gain more and more functionality. At the same time, the expectation is for these devices to become both thinner and cheaper. This requires ...

The typical way of doing a low battery detector is throwing a comparator in the circuit, setting it to measure a certain threshold voltage, and sending that signal off to a microcontroller or other ...

OEMs and battery pirates are constantly in a quality-control tug of war. So how do companies ward off deviants and dodge the lemons? Battery-management ICs fall into three basic categories: chargers, ...