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Driving Motors in Battery-powered IoT Systems

Driving Motors in Battery-powered IoT Systems

Learn motor driver design techniques to help extend battery life in battery-powered motor systems.


Proximity Sensors: Reviewing the Different Technologies

Proximity Sensors: Reviewing the Different Technologies

Learn how four different types of proximity sensor technologies compare: ultrasonic, photoelectric, laser rangefinder, and inductive sensors.


Increasing the Accessibility of Machine Learning at the Edge

Increasing the Accessibility of Machine Learning at the Edge

"Edge intelligence" is becoming more accessible—even to those designers without formal data science training—as new hardware becomes available.


Why There’s Room for a Variety of Solutions in IoT Technology

Why There’s Room for a Variety of Solutions in IoT Technology

This article looks at the different connectivity options for deploying IoT networks, exploring the pros and cons of each.


Developing Robust Motion Detectors Does Not Have to Be a Moving Target

Developing Robust Motion Detectors Does Not Have to Be a Moving Target

This article discusses some concepts for ensuring motion detector designs will be robust to external disturbances by presenting an infrared detector assembly that can significantly reduce the parts count and improve product performance and reliability. 


Protecting IoT Embedded Designs with Security ICs

Protecting IoT Embedded Designs with Security ICs

In this article, we discuss some key security threats to be aware of when designing for the IoT, important security functions, and how protecting these designs is becoming easier with advances in security ICs. 


Motorizing the IoT With Battery-powered Stepper Motors

Motorizing the IoT With Battery-powered Stepper Motors

This article looks at how stepper motors work well in IoT-oriented tasks such as positioning security cameras and remote sensors or actuating air vents, valves, and window covers. 


The Importance of Reliability Verification in AI/ML Processors

The Importance of Reliability Verification in AI/ML Processors

With the adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning in a wide variety of applications, reliability verification of AI/ML processors is critical since failures can have major consequences for the validity and legitimacy of AI/ML technology.


Implementing LoRa-based Solutions for Smart Metering

Implementing LoRa-based Solutions for Smart Metering

This article explores the use of LoRa devices for long-range, low power smart metering of utilities, which allows for remote daily operations and the collection of data.


How Software Automation in PCBA Manufacturing Helps Quicken Innovation

How Software Automation in PCBA Manufacturing Helps Quicken Innovation

Manufacturing still takes a large portion of time in the electrical engineering cycle. This article discusses how software-driven automation and the IIoT can help hasten the manufacturing process.


RISC-V’s Role in Securing IoT-Connected Devices

RISC-V’s Role in Securing IoT-Connected Devices

RISC-V hardware offers additional security for IoT-connected embedded devices beyond software cybersecurity.


Enhancing Battery-Powered End Nodes Through Better  Power Supply Design

Enhancing Battery-Powered End Nodes Through Better Power Supply Design

Novel approaches to end node power supply design using switched-mode converters can enable a wireless end node to operate from a CR2032 lithium coin cell with up to +20 dBm transmit power.


Will Energy Harvesting Be What Fuels the Growth of the IoT?

Will Energy Harvesting Be What Fuels the Growth of the IoT?

This article explores the challenge of constantly powering the billions of devices that make up the IoT and how energy harvesting could be an effective solution.


Understanding Capacitor Leakage to Make Smart Things Run Longer

Understanding Capacitor Leakage to Make Smart Things Run Longer

Analyzing the leakage current from capacitors in the circuit of smart devices and selecting alternative components to reduce leakage could allow smart devices to last longer.


Utilizing the Different Types of Common IoT Connection Methods

Utilizing the Different Types of Common IoT Connection Methods

This article explores the pros and cons of connectivity options for IoT edge device design.


Simplifying Hardware Security Implementation for IoT Nodes

Simplifying Hardware Security Implementation for IoT Nodes

This article provides an overview of what an IoT node needs for a faster and simpler implementation of robust security.


How to Set Up ROHM’s Arduino Sensor Shield for IoT | AAC How-To

How to Set Up ROHM’s Arduino Sensor Shield for IoT | AAC How-To

This video demonstrates how to set up and use ROHM's sensor evaluation kit for IoT for prototyping and testing new IoT devices.


RISC-V: All Hype or Real Hope for the Processor Market?

RISC-V: All Hype or Real Hope for the Processor Market?

RISC-V is changing processor design through open source hardware. In this article, learn about some of the new uses for this technology.


Accelerating Embedded Vision Integration with Xilinx SoCs and the reVISION Stack

Accelerating Embedded Vision Integration with Xilinx SoCs and the reVISION Stack

SoCs with programmable logic are an essential element of real-time embedded vision systems. Designers can capitalize on the power and efficiency of Xilinx's Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC devices to implement their designs using Avnet's Embedded Vision Kits and the Xilinx reVISION stack.


Lock Down the IoT Infrastructure

Lock Down the IoT Infrastructure

A critical factor in both Meltdown and Spectre lies in how the desire for speed can result in security issues.