Mar. 1, 2021 - Electronic Design Today

Ohm Confinement - 2021

July 15, 2021

Dr. Ray Ridley, who has been designing and researching power supplies for over 35 years, returns with his cartoon series that reflects the current climate in our industry.

Power

This Week in PowerBites: FOC without Tears, Easier Energy Harvesting

March 3, 2021

This latest edition of PowerBites reports on a new energy-harvesting module, precision measurement ICs, and motor drivers with FOC motion control, among other developments making...

Communiqué

SDRs Everywhere

Feb. 26, 2021

It seems pretty much any wireless device these days is a software-defined radio. Lou Frenzel discusses the reasons behind this overwhelming trend.

Automotive

Designing the Safe EV of the Future

Feb. 26, 2021

To take a closer look at the state of automotive system design, we spoke with Tamer Kira, Executive Director, Business Management at Maxim Integrated, about the challenges in ...

Automation

2021: The Year When OpenRAN Becomes Mainstream

Feb. 26, 2021

Pushing past lab experiments and field trials toward commercial deployments, O-RAN technology is set to ramp up significantly this year. However, successful expansion will bank...

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Feb. 25, 2021

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Feb. 25, 2021

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SmartNIC Standardizes FPGA Offload

Feb. 24, 2021

Xilinx’s Alveo SN1000 SmartNIC simplifies FPGA-based network acceleration.

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Micro-Sized Solar Harvester Extends Run Time for Wearables, IoT Nodes

Feb. 24, 2021

The micro-sized MAX20361 solar-energy IC is optimized to facilitate harvesting of ambient light’s power to supplement limited battery reserves in a range of devices.

Analog

11 Myths About Switch Bounce/Debounce

Feb. 23, 2021

An often-overlooked issue, “switch bounce” can become particularly problematic in safety- and mission-critical systems. Thus, the need for “switch debounce” tactics. This article...

Power

Power Topics Abound at Infineon’s ESC Virtual Booth

Feb. 23, 2021

The Embedded Solutions Conference, taking place from March 1-5, will include a significant slate of expert talks as well as an array of training sessions and semi-live demos.

Embedded

Accelerate Machine Learning at the Edge with Open-Source Dev Tools

Feb. 22, 2021

Development tools like the DeepView ML tool suite, Glow ML compiler, and PyTorch framework simplify the process of creating ML/deep-learning projects on embedded platforms and...

alt.embedded

Be Prepared for Remote Work

Feb. 16, 2021

Working remotely is better when you’re prepared to do so. Green Hills already has an infrastructure in place to help in this regard with its Embedded Boards Farm.