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Overcoming Signal Integrity and Thermal Bottlenecks in AI-enabled Sensors

Overcoming Signal Integrity and Thermal Bottlenecks in AI-enabled Sensors

Designing compact AI sensor nodes forces signal integrity and thermal management to compete for limited PCB copper, creating severe PDN and thermal bottlenecks.


How to Design a Capacitive Sensor for Liquid Level Measurements

How to Design a Capacitive Sensor for Liquid Level Measurements

This article describes a non-contact liquid level sensor using fringing field capacitance with the AnalogPAK IC, using Math Core calibration for improved stability.


How Low-Voltage GaN FETs Are Enabling Multi-kW 800 V Isolated Converters

How Low-Voltage GaN FETs Are Enabling Multi-kW 800 V Isolated Converters

Learn how EPC’s multi-stage ISOP architecture uses low-voltage GaN FETs to efficiently convert 800 V DC in AI data centers, reducing output ripple and capacitance while achieving up to 98.5% efficiency.


Automated 3D Reconstruction: How Chipmakers Can Keep Pace in the AI Era

Automated 3D Reconstruction: How Chipmakers Can Keep Pace in the AI Era

As chipmakers stack dies vertically to meet surging AI demand, 2D imaging is losing its edge. Automated 3D reconstruction is becoming essential to keeping fabs on pace.


Hardware-Based Security for FPGAs: Protecting Against Evolving Threats

Hardware-Based Security for FPGAs: Protecting Against Evolving Threats

Learn how rising security threats, quantum computing, and strict regulations demand FPGA architectures with integral hardware security and crypto agility for long-term compliance.


Securing Cloud-Based PCB Design Workflows for ITAR-Controlled Defense Programs

Securing Cloud-Based PCB Design Workflows for ITAR-Controlled Defense Programs

Legacy air-gapped ECAD systems struggle to support modern engineering teams. Learn how Zero Trust and GovCloud enclaves enable compliant collaboration on export-restricted hardware IP.


Rethinking the Stack: DDR-Free, Zephyr-First Design on SoC FPGAs

Rethinking the Stack: DDR-Free, Zephyr-First Design on SoC FPGAs

Cut complex, power-hungry DDR. A Zephyr-first design on PolarFire SoC FPGAs leverages on-chip scratchpad and low-power alternatives to boost efficiency and lower BoM costs.


How Does Miniaturization Influence Microwave Filter Performance?

How Does Miniaturization Influence Microwave Filter Performance?

Scaling down RF circuit footprints requires balancing board space against critical trade-offs. Discover how loading methods and high-dielectric substrates impact Q factor and insertion loss.


Why Vibration Is Becoming the New ‘Vital Sign’ in Industrial Systems

Why Vibration Is Becoming the New ‘Vital Sign’ in Industrial Systems

Learn how MEMS sensor technology brings edge AI and vibration monitoring to smart manufacturing, enabling early defect detection and predictive maintenance to prevent downtime.


What CAM and DFM Reviews Reveal Before Multilayer PCBs Enter Production

What CAM and DFM Reviews Reveal Before Multilayer PCBs Enter Production

Explore common design-to-manufacturing gaps observed during pre-production engineering checks of FR-4 boards, from stackup imbalances to tight clearances.


Shorten Hardware Development Cycles by Parallelizing Firmware and PCB Design

Shorten Hardware Development Cycles by Parallelizing Firmware and PCB Design

Learn to decouple application logic from physical routing using a Board Support Package (BSP). This layered architecture accelerates prototyping and minimizes costly respins on custom boards.


Powering AI-RAN: How Telecom Power Architectures Must Evolve for the GPU Era

Powering AI-RAN: How Telecom Power Architectures Must Evolve for the GPU Era

Accelerator-based computing brings faster load changes, higher current density, and tighter thermal constraints, requiring updates to rectifiers, DC/DC conversion, and battery backup.


Rethinking Storage Architecture for Software-Defined Embedded Systems

Rethinking Storage Architecture for Software-Defined Embedded Systems

As software-defined embedded systems evolve, dynamic storage architectures replace static partitioning to optimize flash efficiency, support long-term updates, and control rising hardware costs.


First-Pass Silicon Success at Advanced Nodes: How to De-Risk Tapeout

First-Pass Silicon Success at Advanced Nodes: How to De-Risk Tapeout

Skyrocketing SoC costs mean traditional testing can't catch every sub-7nm escape. Early formal verification, unified workflows, and strict gated signoffs are key to avoiding costly respins.


Why Open-Source Software Is Essential in the Software-Defined Vehicle Era

Why Open-Source Software Is Essential in the Software-Defined Vehicle Era

SDVs demand continuous, upstream-first OSS over closed, patch-laden builds. Renesas backs this with VirtIO virtualization and Sparrow Hawk hardware—OSS as culture, not just cost-cutting.


How Electromechanical Switches Deliver Where Digital Interfaces Fall Short

How Electromechanical Switches Deliver Where Digital Interfaces Fall Short

Beyond touchscreens: Learn how physical feedback drives reliability in automotive, consumer, medical, and industrial electronics applications.


Agentic Requirements Engineering: From Notes to Specs to Working Designs

Agentic Requirements Engineering: From Notes to Specs to Working Designs

AI agents that operate inside your design software turn requirements into a working mental model you can design against, test, and verify — all within the ECAD environment you already use.


The New Era of Retail Begins at the Edge Leveraging On-Device AI

The New Era of Retail Begins at the Edge Leveraging On-Device AI

On-device AI enhances retail by enabling real-time processing for robotics, kiosks, and more, offering low latency, improved privacy, and operational efficiency for a better customer experience.


Why Supply Chain Visibility Is Becoming an Engineering Requirement

Why Supply Chain Visibility Is Becoming an Engineering Requirement

Hidden upstream dependencies can turn great product designs into costly delays. Discover why component sourcing risk must now be factored into early product decisions.


AI Pipeline Storage Demands Optimal Performance, Efficiency

AI Pipeline Storage Demands Optimal Performance, Efficiency

Artificial intelligence data pipelines are placing new pressures on enterprise storage, and data centers must rapidly adapt storage capabilities with SSDs as their backbone.