Top Stories of the Week: Oct. 27-Oct. 31, 2025

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Supercapacitors bridge the application gap between rechargeable batteries and electrolytic capacitors.
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Battery cell voltage is the most fundamental measurement made on the cell. While on the surface measuring voltage seems easy, challenges and accuracy considerations must be understood...
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This is a collection of 18650 lithium-ion battery cells, stored very improperly. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
Fueled by thermal runaway, lithium-ion battery-based fires and disasters are more common than you think.
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Developing your own machine-learning models is easy with TensorFlow.

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With the wireless ecosystem becoming a constantly moving target, more than ever, today’s engineers must stay on top of it.
Wireless Power Eliminates Batteries for IoT Devices
Energous’ transmitters deliver power to IoT devices that no longer need batteries.
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This power-management tip introduces the two different circuits for a positive-to-negative voltage conversion and a negative-to-positive voltage conversion.
Multi-Wavelength Photonics Delivers Higher Throughput for AI Fabrics
Xspace Photonics’ ChromX delivers 10X the throughput compared to single-channel fiber.
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The digital low-dropout (LDO) linear regulator is one of the latest innovations in the power industry, bringing telemetry and adjustability to a linear power supply in a very ...

More of This Week's Articles

The Featured Articles above are just some of the content that's new this week on Electronic Design. Check out the rest here. 

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The companies said the deal will bring together their complementary engineering capabilities, creating R&D scale to deliver innovative RF solutions.
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The new switches are designed to deliver increased bandwidth, low latency, and advanced security for HPC, AI, and data center applications.
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This first part of a two-part series explains how eFuses enable smarter protection against common short conditions in automotive electronics.
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STMicroelectronics’ compact AEC-Q100 device simplifies power management for applications based on single-supply MCUs.
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With questions surrounding Li-ion batteries being able to meet energy density demands going forward, companies like CATL are turning to sodium-ion alternatives.
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Open standards set a new standard for AI data center infrastructure.
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Battery cell voltage is the most fundamental measurement made on the cell. While on the surface measuring voltage seems easy, challenges and accuracy considerations must be understood...
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The future of electric vehicles depends on battery packs that are safe, efficient, and easy to maintain. Wireless battery-management systems introduce a new way to cover all of...
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The IEEE’s free power technology symposium welcomes everyone involved in the use, design, qualification, test, or manufacture of power supplies, power converters, power management...
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Power Integrations’ ref design kit gives eco-racers a turnkey solution for a reliable auxiliary power supply that can be used in solar-powered race cars.
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A miniaturized driver manages red, green, blue, and white LEDs for maximum impact with minimal system CPU burden.
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Follow these best practices for PCB design and antenna placement to get the best performance out of your RF design.
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The automotive-grade SDE0403AT and SRN5040TA-P Series offer higher current density and low-profile footprints for improved power efficiency and filtering performance.
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Sponsored by Texas Instruments: TI’s MSPM0 MCUs help simplify the process of determining the best scalable microcontroller family, pinpointing the right MCU for a project, or ...
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At its recent GM Forward media event, the company announced plans to launch no-hands highway driving in 2028, along with other innovations to arrive even sooner.
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Industry markets from medical to transportation push tactile sensing to its limits.

Editor's Choice: From the Electronic Design Archives

These articles were chosen by the editors at Electronic Design that complement the new articles above. They are included in our regular newsletters. 

ED's Bill Wong chats with Brian Hedayati of Maxim (ADI) about energy harvesting, using the MAX17710.
Here’s a guide to evaluating and using the latest generation of 3D magnetic sensors, which offer a higher-accuracy alternative to existing 1D Hall-effect sensors.
Discover how smart AI-powered cameras are transforming industries that range from robotics to advanced automotive applications.
This room-sized atomic-based arrangement delivers accurate temperature readings within an extremely brief time window.
Wire and contact resistance, which can lead to voltage drops, will wreak havoc when testing cells. Here are some tips that can help you alleviate those headaches.
Zeroing in on the right voltage measurement device is critical to achieving the accuracy and speed of measurement required for your voltage measurement task.
Explore several of the most common misconceptions about EV batteries and one of the most promising new technologies in the industry: the wireless BMS.
A collection of 10 Halloween projects by Cabe Atwell to scare—and inspire—you.
These marvelous world records of electronics focus on communications—from quantum bandwidth to longest distances.
James Walker, CEO of NANO Nuclear, discusses the advent of micro-reactor systems, including the company’s commercial designs that output up to 5 MW.
I set out to build a Halloween project by improving the classic yard ghost.
Technology Editor Bill Wong checks out some Halloween bugs, “Make with Ada,” and a couple of new dev kits.

Editor's Picks from Other Websites

We hope you enjoy the articles on Electronic Design, but there's a lot going on and we can't cover everything. In this section, Electronic Design editors highlight articles they found this week that you might be interested in as well. 

Bill Wong's Picks

No, Plant Services is not a gardening site but they do have a quiz I think you would have fun taking. I did. 

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