Top Stories of the Week: Jan. 12-16, 2025

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The need to move beyond 12 V in automotive systems has been apparent for years, but now, finally, consensus seems to have emerged that 48 V is the answer. Making the transition...
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This new control-loop architecture, usable with both linear and switching regulators, is designed to generate very low noise voltages and the level of noise becomes independent...
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A look at how the space race evolved in 2025, key missions that slipped, and why 2026 is looking to be a banner year for lunar and commercial spaceflight.
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This brief tutorial explains how the “Wiegand effect” can be used as a reliable, low-cost, energy-harvesting system to power a variety of IoT applications.

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The cloud and IoT are still in a stage of growth and development, with technologies continuing to mature and become optimized. Alistair Fulton, CEO of IoT Labs, weighs in on the...
There Is More Than One Way to Do Wireless Power
Powercast takes the magnetic-resonance approach to wireless power.
Hammering Away with a Dual-mode IMU
STMicroelectronics’ 6-axis IMU with dual accelerometers can handle measurements up to 320 g.

Latest Engineering Essentials Articles

These focused articles drill down on the key technologies engineers deal with on a regular basis.

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This crash course on specifying analog-to-digital converters may tip the performance scales in your design’s favor.
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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 ...
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Delve into the pros and cons of using alternating buck-boost control in a power supply.
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This article provides insights into the importance of an IC’s pin failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) to comply with functional-safety standards such as IEC 61508 and ISO...
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Battery cell voltage is the most fundamental measurement made on the cell. While on the surface measuring voltage seems easy, challenges and accuracy considerations must be understood...

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.

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Industry expert Michael Sura does the detective work and comes up with a hypothesis on how an Indian PhD’s “Solid-State Battery” functions and could be made. AndyT also has a ...
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These similar power-measurement ICs tackle the often necessary but energy-consuming task of continuous power measurement and alarming.
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Switching has almost always meant “hard" switching, which is simple but comes with all kinds of electrical and thermal stresses. Soft switching employs more sophisticated design...
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The company claims its new battery could lead to electric cars with a real-world driving range of over 800 miles and a theoretical range of more than 930 miles.
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This article on C coding gives clear rules, a dollop of strong opinions, and zero sugar-coating.
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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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Andy’s back with a CES special edition blog and has an opinion about the revolutionary Donut Lab’s solid-state battery that has made the press and influencers gush.
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"Pole to Pole" shows how tech and grit capture real discovery at Earth’s extremes.
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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 ...
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A recent study looks at the factors that led to keeping greenhouse emissions in check while the economy more than doubled, and how they might drive the transition to a sustainable...
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Energy systems are evolving, and at the heart of many of these breakthroughs is chemical etching.
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SemiQ’s family of Gen3 1,200-V SiC power modules includes a 608-A half-bridge module with 2.4-mΩ on-resistance and best-in-class thermal resistance.
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A new line of automotive connectors from Molex handles multiple cable and signal types in a modular shell.

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.

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To achieve the weight savings and footprint reduction demanded in advanced vehicle systems, using a 48-V zonal architecture becomes an attractive choice.
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Supplementing the CA grid’s wind and solar generating capacity with up to 9.72 GW of peak power, large-scale storage led to 100% renewable operation during parts of 79 out of ...
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Optical proximity sensors reduce acoustic feedback by dynamically adjusting the device settings based on the proximity of objects.
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Developing your own machine-learning models is easy with TensorFlow.
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Arduino wows with the unveiling of its palm-sized Nesso N1 IoT development kit.
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Sprague’s inventions and principles are still applied today across all engineering and modern transportation fields.
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Mostly-Analog editor Andy Turudic takes a look at the original 1963 ISSCC paper that described the world’s first CMOS process with planar P- and N-type MOSFETs.
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The emergence of diamond qubits is making quantum computing practical.

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.

Andy's Notable Reads & Viewings of the Week

Here's the Siemens CES 2026 keynote on digital twins, with case studies from NVIDIA, Microsoft, PepsiCo, and Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

The Industrial AI Revolution: Siemens Keynote at CES 2026 

Q&A site Stack Overflow is hurting, with traffic down 78%. With the emergence of AI and AI summaries during search, we're in danger of losing touch with human expertise and problem solving as users rely on AI to solve problems versus visiting forums, expert communities, and trade journal sites whose very existence is threatened. Ironically, the material the AI trains on.

https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/137686/stack-overflow-in-freefall-78-percent-drop-in-number-of-questions/

Several days after Michael Sura's initial share on LinkedIn, and more than a day after Michael published his article on Electronic Design, some journalists on Youtube pulled some more pieces together on the Donut Lab SSB. An interesting watch:

Uncovering the details on Donut Lab's Solid State Battery

The controversial creator of cartoon engineer Dilbert passed away this week. RIP. I've found the comic strip relatable at times, but rarely funny. Here's a site that randomly pulls up a Dilbert cartoon, though be forewarned that some of Dilbert's creator's personal toxicity leaks into his art.

https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/

 

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