Highlights

Communications

Quick Poll: What's Your Favorite Song About Radio?

Pop music and radio are irrevocably intertwined, and sometimes they even intersect. Where do you fall?
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Power

How Smart is Smart Energy?

Smart energy involves the use of solar, hydro, wind, and geothermal energy. Management software brings control to those green energy resources in the smart home.
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Test & Measurement

TDECQ: Understanding the Theory Behind the Key Metric for PAM4 Optical Transmitters

When decisions were made to change from historical NRZ or simple on-off modulation to PAM4 in the development of advanced comms systems, methods to quantify transmitter performance...
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Learning Resources

Radar System’s Satellite Architecture Enhances ADAS Functionality

Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Automakers are moving from edge architectures to satellite architectures, in which a central high-power ECU applies sensor-fusion algorithms to...
Network Technologies for Functional Safety Communications in Industry 4
Network Technologies for Functional Safety Communications in Industry 4
Network Technologies for Functional Safety Communications in Industry 4
Network Technologies for Functional Safety Communications in Industry 4
Network Technologies for Functional Safety Communications in Industry 4
Automation

Mastering the Black Channel

Discover what network technologies are best suited to address the need of functional-safety communications in the era of Industry 4.0.
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Power

What is Incident Power Density?

When measuring the amount of electromagnetic energy incident on a surface, engineers refer to the “incident power density” metric.
Astera Labs
Embedded

Smart Connectivity Module Pushes the Limits of PCIe

We look inside the Aries smart cable module from Astera Labs, and at why long-range PCIe connectivity has become such a critical factor in the data center.
University of Sydney (Australia) Nano Institute
Analog

Silicon-Based Electro-Optical Device Delivers Narrowband Multi-GHz Filtering

An array of electro-optical components fabricated as a silicon-based photonic IC provides narrowband passband and notch filtering above 10 GHz.
Embedded

The Best IoT Arduino Shields to Start 2024

The best Arduino shields for IoT applications provide a host of features designed for connectivity, control, and data throughput.
Connectivity Standards Alliance
IoT

How Matter 1.2 Simplifies Creation of Secure, Easy-to-Use IoT Apps

Crafted by the Connectivity Standards Alliance, the Matter protocol brings seamless provisioning and interoperability to an array of smart-home and IoT products and equipment....