A Peek Inside the Electronics on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

A Peek Inside the Electronics on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s mirror may get the headlines, but its detector chips, photon-counting cameras, and downlink amplifier tell the…


News Aug 31, 2026 by Robert Martin
MaxLinear Unveils Control-Plane Portfolio for Next-Gen AI Infrastructure

MaxLinear Unveils Control-Plane Portfolio for Next-Gen AI Infrastructure

RackCommander groups MaxLinear's USB UARTs, RS-485 transceivers, GPIO expanders, and power devices for rack-level management.


News Aug 31, 2026 by Jake Hertz
FM Demodulation with Feedback: Exploring Threshold Reduction Mechanisms

FM Demodulation with Feedback: Exploring Threshold Reduction Mechanisms

By closing a feedback loop around the demodulator, the FMFB architecture narrows the noise bandwidth and lowers the FM threshold, without improving SNR at high CNR.


Rethinking Automotive Networking: How Automotive Ethernet Enables Software-Defined Vehicles

Rethinking Automotive Networking: How Automotive Ethernet Enables Software-Defined Vehicles

As vehicle platforms evolve, the traditional model of more than one hundred ECUs, each running independent software, will give way to centralized computing…


Why Your Motor Behaves Badly: See BLDC Control Signals, Power, and EMI in One Shot

Why Your Motor Behaves Badly: See BLDC Control Signals, Power, and EMI in One Shot

See BLDC control signals, power, and EMI together to uncover faults faster and improve motor drive performance.


From BMW to Data Centers: Brands Tap 3 Known Chips in New Ways

From BMW to Data Centers: Brands Tap 3 Known Chips in New Ways

Companies across industries are leveraging tech from NXP, MaxLinear and Nordic Semiconductor on automotive UWB, accelerated OpenZFS storage, and low-power…


News Aug 28, 2026 by Joshua Tidwell
The 4N35: One LED, One Phototransistor, and a Barrier Nothing Crosses

The 4N35: One LED, One Phototransistor, and a Barrier Nothing Crosses

An LED facing a phototransistor inside a 6-pin package became the default way to pass a signal across a barrier while blocking everything else.


News Aug 28, 2026 by Luke James
Energy Storage Systems: How to Easily and Safely Manage Your Battery Pack

Energy Storage Systems: How to Easily and Safely Manage Your Battery Pack

Learn how battery management controllers keep large-scale energy storage systems safe, efficient, and reliable amid growing grid demands. Register to read the…