Inside Electronics

Electronic Design has been serving the engineering community with pride for decades, providing you with news, commentary, and interviews about what is going on in the industry. Through text articles and videos, we’ve shown you the latest and greatest solutions and people in an engaging, informative, and interesting way, and we're expanding that footprint with our new podcast, Inside Electronics.

Hosted by industry veteran Alix Paultre, the podcast will also bring you commentary, news, and interviews about the things going on in the electronic design engineering community and its surrounding business ecosystem—but from a different perspective. Tune in to our biweekly Inside Electronics podcast to check out the discussion and analysis on the latest developments making an impact across the electronics landscape.

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Can Rust Work for Safety-Critical Embedded Systems?

Ferrous Systems’s Florian Gilcher talks about the Rust programming language and safe software.
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How Additive Manufacturing Impacts the Electronics Industry

3D printers offer an alternative in-house method for designing, developing, and manufacturing electronic devices and PCBs.
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Celebrate National Periodic Table Day @ chemicalprocessing.com

What engineer does not know the importance of the Periodic Table?
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Wrapping Up CES 2025

Editors Cabe Atwell and Bill Wong reminisce about the new tech on display (and behind the scenes) at CES 2025.
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How to Develop a Product in Today’s Electronics Ecosystem

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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Not All RISC-V IP is the Same

MIPS CEO Sameer Wasson discusses the company’s approach to RISC-V and how its P8700 RISC-V cores stack up against the competition.
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Empowering Smart-Home Devices with Low-Light Energy Harvesting

Ambient Photonics’ Joshua Wright discusses the details behind the company’s low-light energy-harvesting solar cells, which offer a solution to smart-home power requirements.
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How to Handle the Increasing Data Demands on Server-Farm Cabling

Point2 Technology’s David Kuo explains how e-Tube technology combats the limitations of copper cabling by leveraging mmWave transmitter/receiver SoCs and a dielectric waveguide...
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The State of the Art in Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors

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...
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Breaking Down the Wide-Bandgap High-Voltage Power Marketplace

Wolfspeed’s Guy Moxey offers his perspective on where the industry is headed with WBG semiconductors and circuit topologies for high-voltage applications.
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Building 800G Copper Cables Using the Right Retimers

112G SerDes and retimers are needed for copper cabling to hit 800G speeds.
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Thoughts and Observations from electronica 2024

What stood out at electronica 2024? Alix Paultre attended the event and weighs on the overall atmosphere and key products on display.
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NANO Nuclear’s 5-MW Electricity Generator in a Shipping Container

James Walker, CEO of NANO Nuclear, discusses the advent of micro-reactor systems, including the company’s commercial designs that output up to 5 MW.
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Addressing the Challenges in Medical Device Development

MathWorks’ Dr. Visa Suomi shares his experiences with, and thoughts on, the complexity and inter-functionality of advanced medical devices.
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Learn About Designing Power-Management Systems with Frederik Dostal

Frederik Dostal, author of Dostal’s Designs on Electronic Design, talks about developing power systems.
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Practical Spiking Neural Networks

BrainChip’s Steve Brightfield talks about efficient neuromorphic computing via SNNs.
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Putting Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) into Products

Tom Burke, Global Strategic Advisor, CC-Link Partner Association (CPLA) talks about TSN and real-time industrial automation.
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Making Sense of the Maker Movement

A roundtable of Electronic Design’s editors talk about the mindset of makers and how that intersects with the engineering community.
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Analog ASIC Course Tapes Out Real Silicon

Electronic Design’s Andy Turudic talks with Georgia Tech’s Shaolan Li about a hands-on course centered on silicon design that takes you from schematic through tapeout.
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Overcoming Challenges in Advanced Logic Semiconductor Manufacturing

Henri Richard of Rapidus Design Solutions discusses the latest in logic-chip fabrication and his company’s solutions on this front.
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Optical Chiplet Interconnect Promises to Accelerate Computing Apps

Avicena’s founder and CEO breaks down the challenges of intra-chip data management and how his company’s LightBundle platform offers a solution.
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Advanced Infrastructures for Demanding Data Center and AI SoC Apps

Rambus’ Lou Ternullo weighs in on generative AI fostering a new era of memory innovation and how the company’s PCIe 7.0 IP portfolio tackles emerging challenges in this space....
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Wi-Fi HaLow Offers Advanced Low-Power Connectivity to IoT Products

Tiago Rodrigues, Wireless Broadband Alliance CEO, discusses entering a new phase with Wi-Fi HaLow that involves tests for real-world use cases.
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Product Design in a World of Advanced Solutions

Intelligent Product Solutions’ John Leavitt offers his insight on product creation and the complexities that arise when piecing together a host of interrelated systems.
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What’s the State of the Industry for Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors?

Wolfspeed’s Guy Moxey discusses the present and possible future for WBG semiconductors, as well as the company’s line of SiC devices.
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Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors Push Power Electronics Evolution

GaN and SiC lead the WBG semiconductor charge in reinventing power electronics design. Innoscience Europe’s Denis Marcon discusses the challenges and opportunities they unleash...
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Observations and Takeaways from the 2024 IMS Exhibition

Microwaves & RF’s David Maliniak and Electronic Design’s Bill Wong talk about what they experienced at IMS 2024, the largest show for the microwaves tech industry.
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Navigating the RISC-V Ecosystem

The open-source RISC-V instruction set continues to make inroads across the electronics industry. Electronic Design’s and Microwaves & RF’s Bill Wong offers his take on the current...
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Advanced Integrated GaN Platforms Propel Next-Gen Power Apps

Navitas’ Llew Vaughan-Edmunds talks with Inside Electronics about the company’s GaN-based power advances targeting a range of application areas.
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Talking About European Expansion with an American Electronics Distributor

Host Alix Paultre chats with executives from distributor Heilind about its new German-based facility and efforts to build a strong supply chain and distribution infrastructure...
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Discussing the State of Advanced Intelligent Devices in the Cloud

Silicon Labs’ Ross Sabolcik weighs in on the ever-changing landscape of the cloud, edge computing, and the IoT, and on the company’s new wireless SoCs targeting energy-harvesting...
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embedded world 2024: Showcasing State-of-the-Art Electronic Systems

Alix Paultre reviews some of the top innovations he saw at this year’s show, which had over 1,100 exhibitors from almost 50 countries as well as over 32,000 visitors.
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Designing Advanced Automotive Driving Systems for Safety and Integrity

In this edition of Inside Electronics, we talk with u-blox’s Stefania Sesia about the design of safe and reliable automotive systems, such as u-safe for high-performance lane ...
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The Migration of AI from Buzzword to Application Solution

Inside Electronics host Alix Paultre talks with MathWorks’ Johanna Pingel about the rise of AI/ML and how the company’s MATLAB platform helps integrate AI into system designs....
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The Importance of Connectivity in Electronic Systems

Host Alix Paultre discusses the latest in connectivity solutions, from cables to connectors, with Cinch’s Scott Miller, Director of Product Management.
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The Importance of Advanced Power Electronics in Next-Generation EVs

Greg Green, Vicor's Director of Automotive Marketing, discusses why more power-efficient systems are essential in the design of tomorrow’s electric vehicles.
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CES 2024: A Cornucopia of Technology on Display

In this latest edition of the Inside Electronics podcast, Alix Paultre discusses some of the groundbreaking developments on display at CES 2024.
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Talking About High-Voltage Reed Relays, and the Applications They Serve

Pickering's Robert King gives insight on the company’s latest high-voltage surface-mount reed relays that target multiple test-related platforms.
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Expanding Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Embedded Systems

AI and ML are hotter than ever across the industry landscape. This episode of Inside Electronics discusses where these technologies currently stand in the marketplace.
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This High-Speed Eight-Channel Oscilloscope Claimed as the Fastest

Alix talks with Rohde & Schwarz's Dr. Ernst Flemming and CS Wong about the new MXO 5 oscilloscope featuring four-channel bandwidth up to 2 GHz.