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Designing UWB Antennas for Angle of Arrival Applications

Designing UWB Antennas for Angle of Arrival Applications

Learn what makes Ultra-Wideband (UWB) unique, what makes it useful, and how to address the design challenges it presents.


Using Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis to Uncover Hidden Timing Couplings

Using Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis to Uncover Hidden Timing Couplings

Learn about "hidden" timing couplings in multicore systems that cause unexpected interference, significantly impacting Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) even for independent tasks.


Choosing the Right Overcurrent Protection Device for Safe Consumer Designs

Choosing the Right Overcurrent Protection Device for Safe Consumer Designs

From traditional fuses to eFuses, learn the advantages, limitations, and use cases of each technology to help you create reliable, space-efficient, and standards-compliant consumer products.


Packing More Brains Into Buds: Multi-Feature AI on Tiny Silicon

Packing More Brains Into Buds: Multi-Feature AI on Tiny Silicon

Outfitting earbuds with more AI can be a challenge. Learn how compression techniques like sparsity, quantization, and memory-aware scheduling can help smooth the way.


Common Antenna Integration Challenges and How to Handle Them

Common Antenna Integration Challenges and How to Handle Them

The design of RF systems requires engineers to face complex challenges. Learn how automated tools augmented with AI are becoming available to help with this.


How Hybrid-Driver TWS Earbuds Are Reengineering Consumer Audio Hardware

How Hybrid-Driver TWS Earbuds Are Reengineering Consumer Audio Hardware

Learn the hybrid design configurations used in today’s TWS earbuds, along with the engineering challenges that OEMs face when designing hybrid models.


Advancing Telecommunications With Edge AI

Advancing Telecommunications With Edge AI

By strategically incorporating artificial intelligence throughout their networks, telecom companies can meet demand for better performance, streamlined operations, and improved customer experiences.


Why Smart Meter Accuracy Starts With Embedded Design

Why Smart Meter Accuracy Starts With Embedded Design

Unreliable data is a serious problem for smart meters. This industry article explains why, and presents a solution in the form of embedded software.


Design for the Future: How UALink Interconnects Empower Next-Gen AI Systems

Design for the Future: How UALink Interconnects Empower Next-Gen AI Systems

Learn how UALink offers an open, high-speed interconnect for AI accelerators, that enables scalable, low-latency, and energy-efficient AI systems for next-gen workloads.


Why Clean Energy Systems Need FPGA-Level Control

Why Clean Energy Systems Need FPGA-Level Control

From fine-tuning the output of a solar farm to stabilizing a complex electric grid, FPGAs provide the ultra-fast, efficient computing needed to maximize energy efficiency.


Why 90% of Component Compliance Issues Are Preventable (And How To Stop Them)

Why 90% of Component Compliance Issues Are Preventable (And How To Stop Them)

In today's rapidly evolving aerospace and defense landscape, component engineers face an unprecedented challenge: ensuring every part they specify meets stringent compliance requirements while maintaining mission readiness and program viability.


How Mature-Technology ASICs Can Give You the Edge

How Mature-Technology ASICs Can Give You the Edge

Learn how application-specific integrated circuits can enable companies to leverage their key IP and distinguish themselves from competitors who use off-the-shelf ICs.


AI’s Appetite for Memory: Can Hardware Designs Keep Pace?

AI’s Appetite for Memory: Can Hardware Designs Keep Pace?

Memory selection has become a priority, as AI system designs demand more memory. Learn how to navigate hardware designs impacts and supply chain issues, and how BOM management tools help smooth the way.


Designing Wearable Injectors: Low Power Meets Circuit Protection

Designing Wearable Injectors: Low Power Meets Circuit Protection

Learn how to optimize performance, safety, and battery life in 24/7 drug delivery systems using smart sensing and protection components.


A New Ratiometric Data Acquisition Circuit for Unequal Supply and Reference Voltages

A New Ratiometric Data Acquisition Circuit for Unequal Supply and Reference Voltages

This article introduces a new ratiometric data-acquisition system design for use with remote sensors. As we’ll see, it reduces error by employing matched resistor divider networks.


Case Study: Sealed Tactile Switch Meets Needs of Power Tool Design

Case Study: Sealed Tactile Switch Meets Needs of Power Tool Design

Power tools have demanding needs when it comes to tactile switches. Learn how an engineering team overcame integration, durability, and safety hurdles for this harsh environment.


Beyond Copper and Optical, a New Interconnect Eyes Next Gen Data Centers

Beyond Copper and Optical, a New Interconnect Eyes Next Gen Data Centers

Both copper and optical interconnects face limitations as choices for next gen data centers. Learn how a third option promises to enable scaling up AI clusters in data centers for years to come.


Ensuring IoT Designs Comply With the Cyber Resilience Act—and Are Seen to Do So

Ensuring IoT Designs Comply With the Cyber Resilience Act—and Are Seen to Do So

Adapting to new cybersecurity regulations can be challenging for embedded developers. Here, we discuss these challenges and introduce some tools for meeting them.


The Impact of Non-Terrestrial Networks on Current and Future Global Connectivity

The Impact of Non-Terrestrial Networks on Current and Future Global Connectivity

This article looks at the current status and likely direction of non-terrestrial networks (NTNs), with a focus on practical considerations for early adopters of this new technology.


Understand and Mitigate Temp Effects in InGaAs Avalanche Photodiodes

Understand and Mitigate Temp Effects in InGaAs Avalanche Photodiodes

InGaAs Avalanche Photodiodes (APDs) use avalanche multiplication to amplify weak optical signals. Learn how adding antimony (Sb) into the APD structure enhances temperature stability and reduces noise.