Technology Advancements

Highlights

Educational Innovations and Science Direct
Power

“Drinking Bird” Becomes Triboelectric Energy Harvester

Researchers combined the drinking bird toy with a triboelectric arrangement to create a high-voltage energy-harvesting scheme.
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Automotive

NACS/SAE J3400 EV Charging Interface: Protocols and the Transition (Part 2)

Explore the protocols and challenges of the NACS/SAE J3400 EV charging interface in Part 2 of our series. Learn about safety measures, adoption hurdles, and prospects.
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Embedded

Top Strategies to Improve Microcontroller Security (Part 1)

Microcontrollers are small and inexpensive. Security solutions have the reputation for being neither. With increasingly strict regulation and legislation, the need to balance ...
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Power

Tapping Secrets of Li-ion Cell Temperature to Improve Cold Performance

Explore the challenges and solutions for EV battery performance in cold weather, including state-of-charge monitoring and advanced temperature-management techniques.
NXP Semiconductors
Automotive

NXP Outfits Its First 5-nm Automotive SoC with Real-Time CPU Cores

The S32N55 is the initial offering in the S32N family of so-called “super-integration” processors based on the 5-nm process.
Intel
Embedded

Inside Intel’s Gaudi 3 Chip for AI Training and Inference

The company’s next-gen AI silicon adds more accelerator cores, faster networking, and extra high-bandwidth memory.
Stanford University and Amazon
Analog

Quadrifilar Helix Antenna: Simplifying Remote Communications

A novel design inspired by a child's toy, the portable gigahertz QFH antenna can be easily reconfigured for radiation patterns.
Andrei Dzemidzenka, Dreamstime
EDA

Does This Chip Hold the Future of the Semiconductor Industry?

Learn more about Pike Creek and its potential implications as the first test chip featuring chiplets linked by the UCIe standard.
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Power

Transforming Electric Vehicles: The Doubly-Fed SYNCHRO-SYM Motor (Part 1)

Learn about the brushless SYNCHRO-SYM, which revolutionizes electric motors by offering twice the power density and octuple the peak torque at half the cost and half the loss ...
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Machine Learning

Discovering Recursive Regenerative AI

RRAI takes a step past generative AI to a contemplative new paradigm.