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  • January 13, 2025 - Electronic Design Today

    • January 13, 2025 - Electronic Design Today

    National Geographic
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    Engineering on Friday

    Inside the Macroworld of National Geographic’s “A Real Bug’s Life 2”

    Jan. 15, 2025
    Get up close and personal with some of the world’s most interesting insects and the micro worlds they call home in Nat Geo’s latest series, “A Real Bug’s Life Season 2.”
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    Additive Manufactured Electronics: Disrupting the Electronics Industry

    Jan. 15, 2025
    Additive manufactured electronics is grabbing the attention of the electronics industry. Nano Dimension’s Zvika Avlon discusses how and why this technology is shaking things up...
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    Inside Electronics

    How to Develop a Product in Today’s Electronics Ecosystem

    Jan. 14, 2025
    Designing and developing a product these days can be a challenge, made more difficult by new disruptive technologies, supply-chain issues, and a complex regulatory environment...
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    Automotive

    Adapting to UN Regulation 155: Automotive Cybersecurity Solutions

    Jan. 14, 2025
    Regulations increasingly drive automotive engineering and electronics. This UN regulation is now reshaping markets in dozens of nations, including North America—fortunately established...
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    Learning Resources

    Creating Smarter, More Efficient Solutions Through Edge AI

    Jan. 13, 2025
    Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Integrating AI into devices on the edge can be simplified with NPU-enhanced MCUs and having the right tools at your fingertips.

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    Jan. 13, 2025
    This inexpensive, water-powered non-electronic bandage creates an electric field to promote healing in chronic wounds.
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    Demonstrating an Intrinsically Safe Advanced PHY Device

    Jan. 13, 2025
    The LT8440 is a power conditioner for intrinsically safe, industrial Ethernet ports in hazardous or explosive environments.
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    Jan. 13, 2025
    Integrated voltage regulators allow the PCB design to simplify the PDN by being placed as close as possible to the load, improving the power-delivery performance.
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    Jan. 10, 2025
    To cope with a challenging supply chain, manufacturers rely on up-to-date, accurate data analysis and information.
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    “Auxless” GaN Flyback Converters Tackle AC-DC Adapter Design Challenges

    Jan. 9, 2025
    Sponsored by Texas Instruments: A flyback with a GaN switch offers higher efficiency across all metrics versus silicon—and it’s simpler to design. Enter the auxless option.
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    Vehicle Tech at CES 2025: From SDVs to Windshield Widgets

    Jan. 9, 2025
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    Bringing AI Acceleration to Arduino

    Jan. 9, 2025
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    CES 2025: Honda Zeroes in on Two New EV Models and Renesas Partnership

    Jan. 8, 2025
    Honda unveiled two new electric vehicles at CES 2025: the Honda 0 Saloon and the Honda 0 SUV. A partnership with Renesas was also announced, where advanced processors will support...
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    Precision Shunt-Monitor ICs Meet Automotive Current-Sensing Challenge

    Jan. 8, 2025
    Diodes Inc.’s AEC-Q100-qualified automotive, 26-V, 400-kHz bandwidth uni/bidirectional, low- and high-side current monitors come in SOT25/SOT26 packages.
    Nexperia
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    Power

    Fixed-Direction Voltage Level Translators Cut Power Consumption and Pin Count

    Jan. 8, 2025
    Nexperia’s next-gen smart voltage translators feature glitch-free auto-detection, wide voltage range, and low-quiescent power consumption.
    Donut Lab
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    Automotive

    CES 2025 Revs Up with a Sony EV, a Transformer Truck, and In-Wheel Motors

    Jan. 7, 2025
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    Automotive

    Battery Packaging Architectures: Materials Considerations

    Jan. 7, 2025
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    Standard-Threshold 40-V MOSFETs Enhance Immunity, Design Flexibility

    Jan. 7, 2025
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    Multicore RISC-V Designs for Smart Automotive Apps

    Jan. 7, 2025
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    PWM Controller Tailored for AI Server and Graphics Cards Based on Blackwell GPUs

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    The GAP/R K2-W—Its Model, Measurements, and Suggestions for Further Work (Part 6)

    Jan. 6, 2025
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    Configurable Three-Output PMIC Steers Toward Automotive MCUs

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    Graphene-Based Interconnects Could Improve Density of Digital, Analog, and Power ICs

    Jan. 3, 2025
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    USB-C Charger Design First to Deliver 240 W from Single 1C Port

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    Industrial

    Why Purpose-Built Drives are a Must for Industrial Devices

    Dec. 23, 2024
    Knowing when to invest in purpose-built drives with a controlled bill of materials can help mitigate these risks.
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    Power

    Die-Attach Process Dramatically Improves Waste-Heat Removal in Power Electronics

    Dec. 23, 2024
    A new die-attach process promises to cool power devices up to 15X more efficiently while reducing failure-inducing stresses caused by conventional sintering techniques.
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    Industry Insights

    Freelance Engineering 101: The Power, Job Market, and Money

    Dec. 18, 2024
    Significant numbers of engineers are going the freelance route, both contract and part-time. What does this mean?
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    CXL Memory and Storage

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    One of the main targets for CXL is memory expansion.