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  • May 27, 2024 - Electronic Design Today

    Mobile SoC Platform Incorporates Generative AI Acceleration
    Processors

    Mobile SoC Platform Incorporates Generative AI Acceleration

    May 31, 2024
    MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300+ pushes the mobile, generative AI envelope with up to 7 billion parameters.
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    Automotive

    Solid-State EV Battery Charges Up to 80% in Just 9.8 Minutes

    May 30, 2024
    In addition to the 5C fast-charging G-current battery, Gotion High-tech unveiled a new all-solid-state battery technology and an NCM cylindrical Stellary battery at its recent...
    Kit Close-Up: BeaglePlay and BeagleConnect Freedom Wireless Development Platforms
    IoT

    Playing with a BeagleBoard

    May 30, 2024
    Editor Bill Wong takes a hands-on look at the BeaglePlay and BeagleConnect Freedom Wireless development platforms.
    Solar Panel Inverter Communications Solution Uses SimpleLink Technology
    Digital ICs

    SimpleLink Streamlines Solar-Panel Inverter Connectivity

    May 29, 2024
    Texas Instruments' SimpleLink wired and wireless Arm MCUs have a single development environment for developing IoT applications.
    MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories
    Power

    3D-Printed Electromagnet Yields Powerful Solenoid

    May 29, 2024
    Printed solenoids offer potential for high performance, tailored design, and on-the-spot fabrication.

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    Power Integrations
    Power

    Ultra-Compact, 1.2/2.3-kV Gate Drivers Reveal Important Green Power Industry Trends

    May 28, 2024
    Power Integrations’ new gate drivers are highly optimized to meet the cost and performance requirements of grid-scale renewable generation and storage applications.
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    Test & Measurement

    How to Accelerate Electric-Motor Drive Control Testing

    May 28, 2024
    Testing electric-motor drive controls can be optimized by employing digital twins within a single development platform and via test automation, thus creating a continuous testing...
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    Nonlinearities

    So…The First Stage of the K2-W Op Amp is Neither Balanced Nor Differential (Part 2)

    May 27, 2024
    Design analysis of the K2-W Vacuum Tube Op Amp’s design and operation reveals the mad science that created a commercial revolution in 1950s and 1960s analog computing.
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    Analog

    Analog Fundamentals Book Plus Lab Kit Closes Kickstarter with $113k of $5.5K Goal

    May 24, 2024
    A book for hobbyists, engineers, Makers, and Arduino devs, "Fundamental Analog Circuits & Semiconductors,” with lab kits, successfully funded on Kickstarter.
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    Oscilloscopes

    Compact Scope Targets Rackmount, Automated Test Apps

    May 24, 2024
    The MXO 5C series oscilloscope, which doesn't have an integrated display, delivers the same performance as the MXO 5 series at a fourth of the vertical height.
    Intel
    Embedded

    The U.S. Before and After the CHIPS Act

    May 21, 2024
    By 2032, the U.S. is projected to produce 28% of the world’s most advanced logic chips, up from 0% pre-CHIPS Act.
    Power

    This Week in PowerBites: Big Power Innovation Comes in Tiny Packages

    May 17, 2024
    This week's PowerBites looks at advances occurring in less-obvious regions of the power sector, plus surprising news about the quiet boom occurring in grid-scale energy storage...
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    Power

    A Brief History of Switching Power Supplies

    May 17, 2024
    The high-efficiency switching power supply has become a staple ingredient in many of today’s electronic systems. What are its origins and how has it evolved over the decades?
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    EDA

    Functional Safety for Control and Status Registers

    May 16, 2024
    How to navigate the complexities of building functional safety into SoC design, including managing IP blocks, CSRs, and adhering to standards like ISO 26262.
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    IoT

    IoT Laws Aim to Protect User Information and Mitigate Cybersecurity Threats

    May 16, 2024
    Regulations for IoT continue to evolve in the U.S. and around the world, as governments worldwide implement security laws to protect consumer privacy in the expanding IoT landscape...
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    Software

    Buy vs. Build for Time-Critical Sensor Data Fusion

    May 15, 2024
    What exactly is “real-time”? This article looks at its permutations and offers insight into time-critical sensor data fusion and its role in database systems.
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    Sensors

    Achieving Safety Through Sensing

    May 15, 2024
    To bring vehicle automation to the next level, designers seek next-generation ADAS solutions. This article examines tradeoffs for sensor options like LiDAR and looks at sensing...
    STMicroelectronics
    Power

    Automotive LDO Handles 40-V Inputs, Delivers Single-Digit Outputs

    May 13, 2024
    These LDO regulators fit automotive and industrial applications while also addressing manufacturability issues.
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    Communications

    ROS 2 Communication Stack: The Alternative Protocol

    May 13, 2024
    Discover how the ROS community is addressing the communication challenges posed by the rapid growth of mobile robots and gain insight into what some consider the best alternate...
    Rohde & Schwarz
    Test & Measurement

    Cost-Effective Platform Performs OTA Vehicle-in-the-Loop Testing

    May 10, 2024
    Combining Dürr’s x-road curve multifunction roll test stand and Rohde & Schwarz’s radar target simulator, automated and autonomous vehicles’ full functionality can be evaluated...
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    Power Protection

    11 Myths About E-Fuse Circuit Protection

    May 6, 2024
    As bus voltages climb higher, the need for better protection methods becomes greater. Thus, more designers are turning to e-fuses over traditional mechanical solutions, but some...
    Ethernet

    Ubiquitous Ethernet and Its Many Protocols

    May 1, 2024
    Now having pushed past its half-century anniversary, the seemingly countless forms of Ethernet, from SPE to PoE, have become an integral part of communications systems across ...