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Featured Content

The Elusive Blue LED: How Did Researchers Finally Triumph?

The road to creating a blue LED was long and rough, but in 1993, it burst onto the scene. Learn about the struggles and breakthroughs to find the right recipe.

Here Comes Inductive In-Road EV Charging — Are You Ready?

The seductive appeal of in-road inductive charging, which means EVs no longer tethered to fixed charging stations, along with actual small-scale implementation, suggest that it...

Thin-Film Cooler Doubles Solid-State Refrigeration Efficiency

Solid-state cooling pushes ahead further with the use of higher-performance materials compatible with standard production processes.

New Touch-Sensing Tech Leads to Larger, Thinner, and Foldable Displays

Multi-frequency-region parallel sensing (MFRPS) is poised to enable larger-sized, thinner, and more responsive touchscreens.

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Latest "What's the Difference?" Articles

This long-running series of articles focuses on the differences that distinguish seemingly similar, or competing, technologies.

Differences in Protection: Power over Ethernet vs. Power over Data Line

Explore how to safeguard power and data transmission in modern Ethernet-based systems.

What’s the Difference Between JESD230G and Earlier JEDEC Standards?

What you need to know about the new JEDEC 230G standard for flash-memory design.

What’s the Difference Between OTFT and Amorphous-Silicon Transistors?

Organic TFTs are shaking up the display world, offering flexible new design possibilities that challenge the long-standing dominance of amorphous-silicon transistors.

What’s the Difference in Switching Design Between AC and DC Power Relays?

Power relays are specifically designed to handle either AC or DC. It’s important to know the fundamental differences between them before building them into a system.

What’s the Difference Between the Palladium Emulator and an FPGA for PCIe Debug?

PCIe validation is easier and faster using the Palladium Emulator versus applying FPGA-based methods.

More of This Week's Articles

The Featured Articles above are just some of the content that's new this week on Electronic Design. Check out the rest here.

What It’s Like to be a Part-Time Engineering Professor

Andy completes his first semester as a part-time professor at a local community college and discovers that it’s an unprofitable labor of love.

GF Partners with Navitas to Produce New Generations of GaN Power ICs

The new technology and foundry collaboration aims to expand U.S. capacity for GaN power devices.

Surface-Mount X-, Y-Capacitors First to Carry AEC-Q200 Rating

These X- and Y-capacitors in surface-mount housings, built to suppress EMI, reduce cost, and simplify production.

Peugeot Debuts Hypersquare Controls and Steer-by-Wire Tech

Peugeot’s Polygon concept car reinvents the wheel — steer-by-wire eliminates the steering column.

Keeping Pace with AI: Why Gate-All-Around Transistors are the Answer

Find out where transistor technology is headed, as gate-all-around takes the next step beyond FinFETs.

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11 Myths About the Portable Stimulus Standard

Is the Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) living up to its promise of portable verification and validation across levels of hierarchy and platforms?

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Tiny Spectrometer Features Tunable Layered Organic-Semiconductor Sensor

A multilayered semiconductor acting as an optical sensor opens the way to miniaturized, adjunct spectrometers.

HBM4 Fuels Next-Gen AI with Unprecedented Memory Bandwidth

HBM4 will be essential when it comes to successfully handling the demands of AI in the cloud.

What Happens When Hyperscalers Take Their Foot Off the Accelerator?

Hyperscaler spending currently paints a rosy picture for the memory and processor markets, but gloom looms in the future.

Vision-Language-Action Model Opens Level 4 Frontier for Autonomous Driving

NVIDIA's Alpamayo-R1 AI model improves how self-driving cars “think” for route planning and other real-time driving decisions.

Mastering Motor Control in 48-V EV Thermal-Management Systems

The shift from 12-V supply rails to 48-V power systems is pushing power levels under the hood to new highs. But it opens the door to a unique set of issues that extend to xEV ...

Automotive Amp Isolates High Voltages, Yields Ratiometric Output

This automotive-qualified analog isolation amplifier tolerates kilovolts and delivers a single-ended ratiometric output voltage.

Designing Robust Power Sources with Ideal Diodes

Frederik Dostal explains the rise of the ideal diode and how it can be used to develop more robust power systems.

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Finding a Path to 5.5G and 6G Adoption in Process Control

The next steps beyond 5G promise great advantages in terms of bandwidth and latency, making possible many new process-control functions.

Automotive-Grade MCU Monitors EV Batteries at the Pack Level

The single chip can serve as a pack monitor and communications gateway for high-voltage Li-ion batteries in EVs.

The Next Decade of Tactile Sensing: Evolution and Trajectory of Tactile Sensing

Discover how manufacturing breakthroughs, rising demand, new applications, and strategic partnerships are set to revolutionize the future of tactile sensors.

Editor's Choice: From the Electronic Design Archives

These articles were chosen by the editors at Electronic Design that complement the new articles above. They are included in our regular newsletters.

Can Advanced Recycling Close the “Rare Earth Gap”?

Advanced recycling technologies offer great promise to reducing North America’s reliance on imported critical minerals. Dr. Ahmad Ghahreman, the CEO of Cyclic Materials, explains...

In Pursuit of Robust, Higher-Speed Power Designs with GaN

Gallium-nitride power designs have triple the power of silicon with half the weight and size, plus the added bonus of 20X the speed of silicon.

5 Wireless-Charging Technologies that Bring the Power

As the technologies presented here and others like it continue to advance and become more prevalent, perhaps Tesla’s dream of a completely wireless world may come to fruition....

Multimeter Measurements Explained

Multimeters are one of the most fundamental pieces of test equipment in any lab, but they can often do much more than we realize. Let's take a look at the variety of measurements...

Engineering Essentials: What is Power-Supply Accuracy?

Any engineer testing electronic devices cares about accuracy, which depends on the DC programmable power supply’s specifications, how it monitors the output, and how it’s wired...

How Edward Johnson Ushered in the Era of Christmas Tree Lights

The novel Christmas tree lights were seen as a marvel in a time when most people still feared electricity.

SETI Celebrates 30 Years of Searching for Extraterrestrial Signals

SETI combines cutting-edge radio astronomy, data science, and planetary research in a global effort to detect signs of intelligent life in the universe.

Pac-Man: The Revolutionary Video Game Turns 45

Born in the golden age of arcade games, Pac-Man turned a yellow circle and four quirky ghosts into a global obsession that’s still being played 45 years later.

Don’t Do It: Coding Tricks

It may seem like a good idea to use coding tricks in embedded systems, but you really shouldn’t go there.

11 Myths About Wi-Fi Sensing

Discover the truth about Wi-Fi sensing with Gamgee CEO Paul Hendriks, as he debunks 11 of the most common myths.

Is This the End for the Optocoupler in High-Voltage Isolation?

Learn more about TI’s new family of opto-emulators and how they differ from traditional optocouplers.

Key Moments in Engineering History

The new series will bring insight into the breakthroughs that helped usher in the digital revolution.

Editor's Picks from Other Websites

We hope you enjoy the articles on Electronic Design, but there's a lot going on and we can't cover everything. In this section, Electronic Design editors highlight articles they found this week that you might be interested in as well.

Bill Wong's Picks for the Week

It has been a busy week and politics and business have been mixing like crazy. If you have not heard about the fusion of fusion and Trump Media then check this out.

Fusing Nuclear Power and Politics: Trump Media's Bold $6B Move to Merge with TAE @ EnergyTech - Trump Media’s merger with TAE Technologies aims to create one of the first publicly traded fusion companies, targeting the development of a 50 MW utility-scale fusion power plant by 2026 to meet AI data center energy demands.

Two items on Microwaves & RF that are significant for Electronic Design engineers are theser:

Special Report: 6G, NTN, and Advanced Wireless Infrastructures @ Microwaves & RF - As the world migrates toward the next generation of wireless systems, 6G and its enabling technologies are changing the mobile ecosystem, and our wireless infrastructure must keep pace. (ebook version will be available soon).
Top Stories: November 2025 @ Microwaves & RF - great way to see what is going on in the wireless engineering space.

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