Future TechnologyHow Does ADAS SAVE LIVES AND CARS?ADAS or Advanced Driver Assistance Systems are designed andimplemented to assist the person behind the wheels during driving. The Ashish Narayan Pre-sales & Businessbasic objective of this human-machine interface is to increase the safety Development ManagerHfeature for both - those inside the car and those on foot or in other vehicles. -Automotive E&E QuEST Globalow does ADAS Assist? How does it help the older drivers?ADAS uses sophisticated electronics and Road safety for senior citizens or aged drivers is largelyadvanced software, coupled with sensors defined by physical vulnerability and functional limitations.that assist drivers in avoiding errors in In case of a crash, both these factors contribute to thejudgment. Research suggests that the relatively high mortality rate in older drivers as compared tomajority of road accidents happen due to the younger lot.human errors caused by distracted driving. In such a case,wouldn’t accepting the assistance of technology to mitigate Despite their age, older drivers might have an extraordinarythe imperfect driving behavior of gullible human beings driving experience which comes in handy while anticipatingmake perfect sense for most drivers? and analyzing tricky and confusing situations. However, with age as the mental and physical capabilities of a personMultiple variants of modern vehicles have such systems declines, they become vulnerable and prone to errors inpre-installed to help every driver in avoiding accidents, colli- judgment. ADAS warns them beforehand and accordinglysions or even any out-of-control driving experience. Without helps them with extra time to think and act. This time, whichinterfering too much, the technology is smart enough to might even be a fraction of a second can actually compen-alert the driver in time and also take control of the vehicle, sate for their reduced reaction time owing to age, perceptu-only if and when the need arises. The adaptive features al and/or physical degeneration.also help automate lighting, GPS/traffic warnings; engageemergency braking, cruise control, lane-changing assis- How does it help the young drivers?tance; offer a bird’s-eye view, drowsiness alerts, connect to Though the young drivers are mentally alert, neverthelesssmartphones, and reveal blind spots. Hence, implementa- they are prone to distractions of the digital or connectedtion of ADAS components is as beneficial to the aged driver world. While the older driver guards himself against humanlike it is for the young driver. factors that can influence his/her momentary lapses, the same doesn’t hold true for the younger lot.ELE Times | 52 | April, 2018
The younger drivers could often voluntarily lead themselves into a pre- preoccupations such as problems at work, talking on phone or oper-carious traffic situation just for the sake of adventure or thrill seeking. ating a music player while driving. The Fear of Missing out (FOMO) isYoungsters may be even more prone to driving under the influence of one of the major factors that leading to road accidents and crashes.alcohol and often flout traffic rules just for the sake of being a rebel. With ADAS systems in place, such incidents if not totally made extinctIt may also happen that they are distracted by various psychological - could surely be minimized to result in saving a lot of both, life and property. Why do accidents happen? Every driver has a unique set of driving competencies and a psycho- somatically defined response time. The better the driver copes up with discrepancies by communicating well with other road users and adjusting the speed and position of his vehicle, the more in-control he is. If their perceptual weaknesses (varied factors such as age-related mental and physical condition, alcohol, stress, fatigue, emotions, distraction etc.) overpower this ability to stay in control, the chances of accidents are maximized. There are boundaries to every human’s perceptive abilities, that are minimized due to these factors and ADAS components can actually step in to compensate for the loss in human perception. How ADAS helps in avoiding accidents? While comparing capabilities with task demands, the simple rule says that if capabilities of the driver are higher than task demands, then he/ she will be in command and things will be easy to handle. However, if task demands are higher, due to whatever reasons, it will be tough for a driver to drive smoothly under difficult situations and the journey might end up in a crash. In such a scenario, where task demands are high, ADAS comes into play. It intervenes and helps the driver to get the situation under control. This can be done by prompting the driver to lower his speed, change the trajectory or relative-vehicle position or by communicating with other drivers on the road with indicator lights. Accordingly, ADAS supports the drivers in lowering the task demand and helps their capabilities to get the upper hand in averting a probable crash. With such enhancements in every turn of the wheel or push of the pedal, this is how ADAS enhances the abstract of ‘driving experience’ for one and all in multiple ways. As these components are evolving and maturing, they are also paving the way for partial and fully auton- omous vehicles. However, even if it’s assisted or autonomous, we are on a QuEST to keep you always in control behind the steering wheel.ELE Times | 53 | April, 2018
Future Technology3-D Metal Printing 3D METAL PRINTING: THE of a mouse embryo several days old. FUTURE OF PRINTING “We know that stem cells are magical inWhile 3-D printing has been around for de- their powerful potential of what they can do.cades, it has remained largely in the domain ARTIFICIAL EMBRYOS We did not realize they could self-organizeof hobbyists and designers producing one- WILL CHANGE THE WAY so beautifully or perfectly,” Magdelenaoff prototypes. And printing objects with KIDS ARE BORN Zernicka¬-Goetz, who headed the team,anything other than plastics—in particular, told an interviewer at the time.metal—has been expensive and painfully IS THERE ANYTHING Zernicka-Goetz says her “synthetic” em-slow. TO TALK OF AI THAT bryos probably couldn’t have grown intoNow, however, it’s becoming cheap and ALREADY HASN’T BEEN? mice. Nonetheless, they’re a hint that sooneasy enough to be a potentially practical we could have mammals born without anway of manufacturing parts. If widely adopt- egg at all.ed, it could change the way we mass-pro- That isn’t Zernicka-Goetz’s goal. She wantsduce many products. to study how the cells of an early embryoIn the short term, manufacturers wouldn’t begin taking on their specialized roles. Theneed to maintain large inventories—they next step, she says, is to make an artificialcould simply print an object, such as a re- embryo out of human stem cells, workplacement part for an aging car, whenever that’s being pursued at the University ofsomeone needs it. Michigan and Rockefeller University.In the longer term, large factories that Synthetic human embryos would be amass-produce a limited range of parts might boon to scientists, letting them tease apartbe replaced by smaller ones that make a events early in development. And since suchwider variety, adapting to customers’ chang- embryos start with easily manipulated steming needs. cells, labs will be able to employ a full rangeThe technology can create lighter, stron- of tools, such as gene editing, to investigateger parts, and complex shapes that aren’t them as they grow.possible with conventional metal fabricationmethods. It can also provide more precise Sensing Citycontrol of the microstructure of metals. In2017, researchers from the Lawrence Liver- Numerous smart-city schemes have run intomore National Laboratory announced they delays, dialed down their ambitious goals,had developed a 3-D-printing method for or priced out everyone except the su-creating stainless-steel parts twice as strong per-wealthy. A new project in Toronto, calledas traditionally made ones. Quayside, is hoping to change that patternAlso in 2017, 3-D-printing company of failures by rethinking an urban neighbor-Markforged, a small startup based outside hood from the ground up and rebuilding itBoston, released the first 3-D metal printer around the latest digital technologies.for under $100,000. Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs, based in NewAnother Boston-area startup, Desktop York City, is collaborating with the CanadianMetal, began to ship its first metal prototyp- government on the high-tech project, slateding machines in December 2017. It plans for Toronto’s industrial waterfront.to begin selling larger machines, designed One of the project’s goals is to base deci-for manufacturing, that are 100 times faster sions about design, policy, and technologythan older metal printing methods. on information from an extensive networkThe printing of metal parts is also getting of sensors that gather data on everythingeasier. Desktop Metal now offers software from air quality to noise levels to people’sthat generates designs ready for 3-D print- activities.ing. Users tell the program the specs of the The plan calls for all vehicles to be autono-object they want to print, and the software mous and shared. Robots will roam under-produces a computer model suitable for ground doing menial chores like deliveringprinting. the mail. Sidewalk Labs says it will open access to the software and systems it’s cre-Artificial Embryos ating so other companies can build services on top of them, much as people build appsIn a breakthrough that redefines how life for mobile phones.can be created, embryologists working at The company intends to closely monitorthe University of Cambridge in the UK have public infrastructure, and this has raisedgrown realistic-looking mouse embryos us- concerns about data governance and priva-ing only stem cells. No egg. No sperm. Just cy. But Sidewalk Labs believes it can workcells plucked from another embryo. with the community and the local govern-The researchers placed the cells carefully in ment to alleviate those worries.a three-dimensional scaffold and watched, “What’s distinctive about what we’re tryingfascinated, as they started communicating to do in Quayside is that the project is notand lining up into the distinctive bullet shape ELE Times | 56 | April, 2018
only extraordinarily ambitious but also has AI WILL HAVE ITS OWN Future Technologya certain amount of humility,” says Rit Ag- IMAGINATION SOONgarwala, the executive in charge of Sidewalk The solution first occurred to Ian Goodfel-Labs’ urban-systems planning. That humility BEFORE AN ADVERSITY, low, then a PhD student at the Universitymay help Quayside avoid the pitfalls that YOUR CITY WOULD KNOW of Montreal, during an academic argumenthave plagued previous smart-city initiatives. AND BE READY TO SHIELD in a bar in 2014. The approach, known as YOU a generative adversarial network, or GAN,AI for Everybody takes two neural networks—the simplified ONE DAY, BABIES WILL mathematical models of the human brainArtificial intelligence has so far been mainly GET DNA REPORT CARDS that underpin most modern machine learn-the plaything of big tech companies like AT BIRTH. ing—and pits them against each other in aAmazon, Baidu, Google, and Microsoft, digital cat-and-mouse game.as well as some startups. For many other Both networks are trained on the samecompanies and parts of the economy, AI data set. One, known as the generator, issystems are too expensive and too difficult tasked with creating variations on imagesto implement fully. it’s already seen—perhaps a picture of aWhat’s the solution? Machine-learning pedestrian with an extra arm. The second,tools based in the cloud are bringing AI known as the discriminator, is asked toto a far broader audience. So far, Amazon identify whether the example it sees is likedominates cloud AI with its AWS subsidiary. the images it has been trained on or a fakeGoogle is challenging that with TensorFlow, produced by the generator—basically, isan open-source AI library that can be used that three-armed person likely to be real?to build other machine-learning software. Over time, the generator can becomeRecently Google announced Cloud AutoML, so good at producing images that thea suite of pre-trained systems that could discriminator can’t spot fakes. Essentially,make AI simpler to use. the generator has been taught to recognize,Microsoft, which has its own AI-powered and then create, realistic-looking images ofcloud platform, Azure, is teaming up with pedestrians.Amazon to offer Gluon, an open-source The technology has become one of thedeep-learning library. Gluon is supposed most promising advances in AI in the pastto make building neural nets—a key decade, able to help machines producetechnology in AI that crudely mimics how the results that fool even humans.human brain learns—as easy as building a GANs have been put to use creating real-smartphone app. istic-sounding speech and photorealisticIt is uncertain which of these companies will fake imagery. In one compelling example,become the leader in offering AI cloud ser- researchers from chipmaker Nvidia primedvices. But it is a huge business opportunity a GAN with celebrity photographs to createfor the winners. hundreds of credible faces of people whoThese products will be essential if the AI don’t exist. Another research group maderevolution is going to spread more broadly not-unconvincing fake paintings that lookthrough different parts of the economy. like the works of van Gogh. Pushed further,Currently AI is used mostly in the tech in- GANs can reimagine images in differentdustry, where it has created efficiencies and ways—making a sunny road appear snowy,produced new products and services. But or turning horses into zebras.many other businesses and industries havestruggled to take advantage of the advanc- Genetic Fortune-Tellinges in artificial intelligence. Sectors such asmedicine, manufacturing, and energy could One day, babies will get DNA report cardsalso be transformed if they were able to at birth. These reports will offer predictionsimplement the technology more fully, with a about their chances of suffering a hearthuge boost to economic productivity. attack or cancer, of getting hooked on to- bacco, and of being smarter than average.Dueling Neural Networks The science making these report cards pos- sible has suddenly arrived, thanks to hugeArtificial intelligence is getting very good at genetic studies—some involving more thanidentifying things: show it a million pictures, a million people.and it can tell you with uncanny accuracy It turns out that most common diseaseswhich ones depict a pedestrian crossing and many behaviors and traits, includinga street. But AI is hopeless at generating intelligence, are a result of not one or a fewimages of pedestrians by itself. If it could genes but many acting in concert. Using thedo that, it would be able to create gobs of data from large ongoing genetic studies,realistic but synthetic pictures depicting scientists are creating what they call “poly-pedestrians in various settings, which a genic risk scores.”self-driving car could use to train itself with- Though the new DNA tests offer proba-out ever going out on the road. bilities, not diagnoses, they could greatlyThe problem is, creating something entirely benefit medicine. For example, if women atnew requires imagination—and until now high risk for breast cancer got more mam-that has perplexed AIs. mograms and those at low risk got fewer, ELE Times | 57 | April, 2018
Future TechnologyTRUE INTERNET PRIVACY perfect. Who wants to know protocol called a zero-¬knowledge proof.WOULD FINALLY BECOME they might develop Alzhei- Though researchers have worked on it forPOSSIBLE mer’s? What if someone with decades, interest has exploded in the past a low risk score for cancer year, thanks in part to the growing obsessionthose exams might catch more real cancers puts off being screened, with cryptocurrencies, most of which aren’tand set off fewer false alarms. and then develops cancer private. anyway? Much of the credit for a practical zero-knowl-Pharmaceutical companies can also use the Polygenic scores are also edge proof goes to Zcash, a digital currencyscores in clinical trials of preventive drugs controversial because they that launched in late 2016. Zcash’s develop-for such illnesses as Alzheimer’s or heart can predict any trait, not ers used a method called a zk-SNARK (fordisease. By picking volunteers who are more only diseases. For instance, “zero-knowledge succinct non-interactivelikely to get sick, they can more accurately they can now forecast about argument of knowledge”) to give users thetest how well the drugs work. 10 percent of a person’s power to transact anonymously. performance on IQ tests. As That’s not normally possible in Bitcoin andThe trouble is, the predictions are far from the scores improve, it’s likely most other public blockchain systems, in that DNA IQ predictions will which transactions are visible to everyone. become routinely available. Though these transactions are theoretically But how will parents and educators use that anonymous, they can be combined with information? other data to track and even identify users. Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum, the Perfect Online Privacy world’s second-most-popular blockchain network, has described zk-SNARKs as an True internet privacy could finally become “absolutely game-changing technology.” possible thanks to a new tool that can—for For banks, this could be a way to use instance—let you prove you’re over 18 blockchains in payment systems without without revealing your date of birth, or prove sacrificing their clients’ privacy. Last year, you have enough money in the bank for a JPMorgan Chase added zk-SNARKs to its financial transaction without revealing your own blockchain-based payment system. balance or other details. That limits the risk of a privacy breach or identity theft. The tool is an emerging cryptographic ELE Times | 58 | April, 2018
New ProductsAllegro introduces a new Mouser Now Stockingautomotive sinusoidal Infineon’s New XENSIV MEMSsensorless BLDC fan driver IC MicrophonesProduct Name: A5932 three- permit motor Product Name: IM69D120 of up to 105 dB. The technologyphase BLDC motor controller currents that can and IM69D130 XENSIV MEMS allows improved high frequencyApplications: Seat, battery, be scaled to fit microphones immunity for better audio signalinfotainment and headlamp the applications Applications: High-quality audio processing and increasescooling fans for automobiles. requirements. capture, voice user interface, the acoustic overload pointTech Info: The A5932 is a The motor speed active noise cancellation, and of 10-percent total harmonicthree-phase BLDC motor is controlled audio pattern detection in distortion (THD) to 135 dB SPL.controller solution that is by applying monitoringtargeted at high-power a duty cycle systems. The 4 mm × 3automotive fan applications command to the Tech Info: mm microphoneswith very low vibration and speed (SPD) Infineon feature a noiseaudible noise requirements. input. The SPD XENSIV floor of just 25MOSFET gate driver outputs input is allowed microphones, dBA (69 dBA to operate over a wide are designed signal-to-noise frequency range. A sinusoidal for applications ratio (SNR)), with voltage profile is applied to that require distortion less the windings of the motor low self-noise, than 1 percent, at startup to quietly start up wide dynamic even at sound and gradually ramp up the range, low distortion and a pressure levels motor to the desired speed. high acoustic overload point. of 128 dB SPL. For design agility, This new device has a 5.5 to The microphones incorporate the IM69D120 microphone has 50 input voltage rating with Infineon’s dual back plate micro been specifically designed to an operating range of -40° to electromechanical systems preserve the 69 dBA SNR within 150°C. (MEMS) technology to enable the dynamic range of a 16-bit For more info: allegromicro. high linearity of the output system, whereas the IM69D130 is com signal within a dynamic range ideal for 20-bit systems. For more info: mouser.comAnalog Devices’ High Power Vicor’s Power-on-Packageand High Voltage Isolated System Provides Up to 1,000AGate Driver Board Peak CurrentProduct Name: High power high-power system. Product Name: Power on autonomousevaluation board for half- The high-power evaluation Package (PoP) Chipset driving systems.bridge SiC power modules board enables Microsemi’s Applications: High Power-on-Applications: Electric SiC power modules to performance GPU, CPU, and Packagevehicle (EV) charging, provide benefits such as ASIC (“XPU”) processors modules buildhybrid EV (HEV)/EV onboard a common test bench, Tech Info: PoP MCMs multiply upon Factorizedcharging, DC-DC converters higher power density for current and divide voltage from PowerTech Info: The new board reduced size and cost, and a 48V source in close proximity Architecturecan be used as the building isolated and conductive to XPUs to enable higher (FPA) systemsblock of more complex substrate and minimum levels of XPU performance. deployed in high performancetopologies, such as full- parasitic capacitance for Power distribution efficiency computers and large scalebridge or and system density rise datacenters. FPA supportsmulti-level higher efficiency, beyond the limitations of efficient power distributionconverters, performance, conventional 12V input multi- and direct conversion fromfor and excellent phase voltage regulators 48V to sub-1V XPUs. Withcomplete thermal lacking current multiplication. current multiplication deployedbench management. Power-on-Package is an in close proximity to highdebugging These attributes enabling technology for high current processors, PoP MCMsof customer make the board current Artificial Intelligence overcome previous barriers tosolutions. suitable for (“AI”) processors and 48V improved performance.It can also function as a final applications A pair ofevaluation platform or in including electric vehicle (EV) MCM4608S59Z01B5T00converter-like configuration charging, hybrid EV (HEV)/EV (MCMs) and afor full test and evaluation onboard charging, DC-DC MCD4609S60E59H0T00of Analog Devices’ converters, switched mode Modular Current MultiplierADuM4135isolated gate power supply, high-power Driver (MCD) provide 600Adriver with iCoupler digital motor control and aviation continuously and up to 1,000Aisolation technology and actuation systems. peak at up to 1V.LT3999 DC-DC driver in a For more info: analog.com For more info: vicorpower.com ELE Times | 60 | April, 2018
New ProductsDigital control meets intelligent 1-MHz active clamp flybackanalog to streamline design chipset and industry-first 6-AProduct Name: ATmega4809 The introduction of the three-level buck battery chargerApplications: Sensor nodes ATmega4809 brings a new series from TITech Info: The new PIC16F18446 of megaAVR microcontrollers that can achieve and maintain highfamily of microcontrollers are ideal were designed to create highly- efficiency at full and light loads. • Double the power density:components for use in sensor responsive command and control The chipset delivers efficient operation at up to 1 MHz,nodes. Designed with flexibility applications. The processing enabling a size reduction of 50 percent.in mind, the PIC16F18446 and power of the integrated high-speed • High efficiency: Multimode control enables efficiency upits integrated Analog-to-Digital Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) to 95 percent at full loads and standby power of less thanConverter with Computation enables faster conversion of analog 40 mW, exceeding CoC Tier 2 and DoE Level VI efficiency(ADC2) runs signals resulting standards. For designs above 75 W, engineers can also pairfrom 1.8V to in deterministic the chipset with a new six-pin power-factor correction (PFC)5V, providing system controller, the UCC28056, which is optimized for light-loadcompatibility with responses. 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With multimodeautonomously, (CIPs), the control that changes the operation based on input andproviding more ATmega4809 output conditions, pairing the UCC28780 with the UCC24612accurate analog can executesensor readings tasks inand ultimately higher-quality end- hardware instead of throughuser data. Because the ADC2 has software. 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New ProductsNordson EFD Performus X Littelfuse Introduces 1200VSeries Fluid Dispensers are SiC MOSFETs with Ultra-LowBuilt Tough for Industrial Use On-ResistancesProduct Name: Performus X pressure regulator Product Name: substantially in terms of blockingSeries fluid dispensers for greater control LSIC1MO120E0120 and voltage, specific-on resistance,Applications: Electronics, life when dispensing LSIC1MO120E0160 SiC and junction capacitances.science, consumer goods, and low-viscosity or MOSFETs They also offer a combinationautomotive industries. thin fluids such as Applications: Electric vehicles, of high operating voltagesTech Info: The Performus X100 solvents. industrial machinery, renewable and ultra-fast switching thatfeatures a 0-100 psi (0-7 bar) The housing energy traditional power transistorpressure regulator for applying also acts as a Tech Info: The solutions such as silicon IGBTslow- to high-viscosity fluids such faraday cage for LSIC1MO120E0120 and with similar current ratings andas glue, oil, grease, silicone, improved EMI/RFI LSIC1MO120E0160 SiC packages can’t match.sealant, cyanoacrylate, UV-cure protection, and MOSFETs offer ultra-low on- The new 1200V SiC MOSFETsadhesives, and dispensing the unit features a resistance (RDS(ON)) levels offer these key benefits:paste such as SolderPlus solder chassis connection of just 120 milliohms and 160 • A reduction in passive filterpaste. The Performus X15 for grounding to shunt leakage milliohms respectively. These components at the systemfeatures a 0-15 psi (0-1 bar) current and enhance system SiC MOSFETs are designed for level supports increased electrostatic discharge (ESD) use as power semiconductor power density, for a design protection. switches in a wide range of that’s optimized for use in In addition, both the Performus various power conversion high-frequency, high-efficiency X100 and Performus X15 systems, outperforming their applications. feature a Steady, Timed, and silicon MOSFET counterparts • Extremely low gate charge and Teach mode of operation. The output capacitance combined Teach function makes it simple with ultra-low on-resistance to program the time required allows for minimal power for the desired fluid deposit dissipation, higher efficiency amount. and a reduction in the size and For more info: nordsonefd.com sophistication of the cooling techniques required. For more info: littelfuse.comElectrolube Launches Renesas Synergy StrengthensFirst Clear UL94 V-0 Flame Chip-to-Cloud IoT ConnectivityRetardant PU Resin with New Enterprise Cloud Toolbox a carefully selected dashboard. The MCU softwareProduct Name: UR5641 blend of components, Product Name: Renesas executes on the companionencapsulation resin UR5641 is an Synergy Enterprise Cloud Toolbox AE-CLOUD1 kit, which containsApplications: LED extremely durable, v1.1 a Synergy S5D9 fast prototypingencapsulation low viscosity system Applications: Chip to cloud IoT board, Wi-Fi module, and aTech Info: UR5641 cures to that can be used connectivity SEGGER J-Link Lite debugger/provide a flexible, protective and for a wide variety of Tech Info: The Enterprise programmer. To start an IoTaesthetically pleasing covering applications. The new Cloud Toolbox software, unlike application, developers simplyover the luminaire elements. The resin is eminently competitive cloud kits, can be download the Cloud Toolboxresin also offers high resistance suitable for the cut and paste into real projects, Application Project for use withto weather, acids and alkalis, protection of LED enabling code reuse to accelerate either of Synergy developmentwater and mould growth. luminaires exposed product development. The software environments–e2studio or IARUR5641 is a two-part, semi-rigid, to hazardous includes project files and C source Embedded Workbench–to buildoptically clear, flame retardant atmospheres, such as code for the microcontroller (MCU) and modify the embedded MCUpolyurethane resin that meets emergency lighting, or lighting based on the Synergy Software and dashboard source code.the UL94 V-0 standard. Due to intended for installation in ATEX Package (SSP) v1.3.3, and Java/ The Enterprise Cloud Toolbox rated/zoned environments. JavaScript source code for the web allows developers to use the The UR5641 resin demonstrates SSP’s integrated Message Queue high dielectric strength at Telemetry Transport for NetX 11 kV/mm, excellent thermal Duo and NetX Secure Transport conductivity of 0.35 W/m.K Layer Security to connect to their and provides a wide operating cloud vendor of choice. At no temperature range between cost, developers can also make -40 to +120 °C. The RoHS-2 this connection using a Renesas- compliant resin also provides hosted cloud account. a cure time within 24 hours at For more info: renesas.com 23°C or 4 hours at 60°C. For more info: electrolube.com ELE Times | 62 | April, 2018
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