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    Engineering on Friday

    A Holiday Gift Guide that Will Change Your Life

    Dec. 17, 2024
    Technology Editor Cabe Atwell puts together a holiday gift list that could change an engineer's life for the better.
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    Inside Electronics

    The State of the Art in Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors

    Dec. 17, 2024
    Integration of SiC and GaN in power electronics continues to ramp up. Power Integrations’ Andy Smith discusses the latest advances in WBG tech, including a new 1,700-V GaN switch...
    Subthreshold IC Solution Promises to Reduce Power Consumption
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    Subthreshold IC Boosts Low-Power Device's Battery Lifetime

    Dec. 17, 2024
    Nanopower’s nPZero architecture can cut power consumption dramatically, increasing battery life while enhancing system monitoring functionality.
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    Sensors

    Enhance Hearing-Aid Performance with Optical Proximity Sensing

    Dec. 16, 2024
    Optical proximity sensors reduce acoustic feedback by dynamically adjusting the device settings based on the proximity of objects.
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    Radioisotope thermoelectric generator of the Curiosity rover
    Nonlinearities

    How to Build a $15k Electric Car—Think in a Bigger Box, Not Outside One

    Dec. 16, 2024
    Out-of-the-box thinking for engineers is extremely difficult when engineers themselves create the box containing problem solutions. Electronic Design’s newly designated Automotive...

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    Analog

    GAP/R K2-W Vacuum-Tube Op Amp SPICE Modeled Performance (Part 5)

    Dec. 16, 2024
    Part 5 provides spec summary of the GP/R K2-W vacuum-tube op amp and discusses measurement constraints/conditions and LTspice modeled output.
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    Learning Resources

    Simplify Programmable Logic Integration into Electronic Devices

    Dec. 13, 2024
    Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Engineers can turn to compact programmable logic devices to reduce component counts and shrink PCB footprints in their ever-more-complex designs...
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    Industry Insights

    Salaries Trend Up for Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2024

    Dec. 13, 2024
    In a tight labor market, skilled engineers continue to have leverage when negotiating salaries and pushing for bonuses and other perks.
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    Test & Measurement

    How Much Power is Needed to Charge My Battery Cell?

    Dec. 13, 2024
    Specification of lithium-ion battery testers must take into account that the actual power consumed varies with time, and that there will be losses. This article takes a deep dive...
    Simplifying Machine Architectures with Time-Sensitive Networking
    Industrial

    CC-Link Delivers Deterministic Traffic Management for Manufacturing Ecosystems

    Dec. 13, 2024
    Discover how TSN integration can simplify machine architectures by enabling a single communication backbone, reducing the complexity of deterministic traffic management in ecosystems...
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    EDA

    Co-packaged Optics Delivers High-Performance Chip Communication

    Dec. 12, 2024
    IBM’s co-packaged optics offers 6X the beachfront density thanks to the use of smaller fibers with an 18-µm pitch.
    Chalmers University of Technology and KAIST
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    Power

    Textile-Based Energy Harvesting: The Next Big Thing (Again)?

    Dec. 11, 2024
    The quest continues to have your shirt provide harvestable energy. Two novel methodologies attempt to find the solution, one implementing conductive polymers and the other using...
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    Molex automotive-grade current sensors
    Test & Measurement

    High-Precision Current Sensors Target Automotive, Industrial Busbars

    Dec. 10, 2024
    Molex's packaging design, which minimizes size and weight, make the sensors well-suited for plug-and-play applications.
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    Passives

    Shielded Power Inductors Feature Low DCR with Flat Wire

    Dec. 9, 2024
    Bourns’ latest series of low-profile shielded power inductors feature flat wire windings that deliver improved efficiency and a smaller form factor.
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    Embedded

    EV Wire Harnesses: Dealing with the Complexity

    Dec. 6, 2024
    An advanced on-board signal- and power-distribution network can simplify the complexity of an EV’s wire harness.
    ROHM Semiconductor
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    Power

    1,200-V IGBTs Offer Low Loss with High Short-Circuit Tolerance

    Dec. 5, 2024
    ROHM Semiconductor’s series of AEC-Q101-qualified IGBTs support the requirements needed to drive the accessory systems of next-gen EVs.
    Texas Instruments
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    Learning Resources

    Low-Power 60-GHz Radar Sensors Bring High Accuracy to Multiple Applications

    Dec. 3, 2024
    Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Radar-sensor integrated circuits enable engineers to reduce design time and bill-of-materials costs for applications ranging from automated doors...
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    Quantum Computing

    Will Diamonds Revolutionize Quantum Computing?

    Nov. 26, 2024
    The emergence of diamond qubits is making quantum computing practical.