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Designing for Change: Why Configurable Power Supplies Win in Multi-Rail Systems

Designing for Change: Why Configurable Power Supplies Win in Multi-Rail Systems

When do configurable power supplies make more sense than fixed or custom designs for multi-rail systems? This practical guide for design engineers covers platform architecture, real-world cost trade-offs, and measured IEC 60601-1 leakage-current margins.


Hardware Engineering as the Next Frontier for Agentic AI

Hardware Engineering as the Next Frontier for Agentic AI

Agentic AI has already changed how software gets built. Here's why hardware engineering and electronics are next, and why it starts with requirements.


Building America’s Next Generation of Defense Connectivity

Building America’s Next Generation of Defense Connectivity

Nicomatic USA has spent 30 years expanding its Horsham, Pennsylvania facility into a full-service domestic source for military-grade connectors and cable assemblies. The result is American-made sourcing, traceability, and engineering support that meet today's defense procurement requirements.


Reducing Clock Spur Interference in Phased Array Subsystems

Reducing Clock Spur Interference in Phased Array Subsystems

See how coordinated shielding and phase calibration can suppress clock-related interference, improve SFDR, and preserve multichannel RF performance.


Synchronizing Digital Phased Arrays for Scalable Beamforming

Synchronizing Digital Phased Arrays for Scalable Beamforming

Learn how direct RF sampling and wideband digitizer synchronization help achieve phase repeatability across digital beamforming systems.


Simplifying Embedded System Design with a Modern Software Ecosystem

Simplifying Embedded System Design with a Modern Software Ecosystem

Stop spending months on low-level driver development—discover how a modern microcontroller ecosystem can take you from concept to a fully functional remote oil-monitoring system in a fraction of the time.


Optimizing Inference Performance for the Open-Weight LLM GLM-5.1

Optimizing Inference Performance for the Open-Weight LLM GLM-5.1

See how Fixstars engineers optimized inference for the 754B-parameter open-weight LLM GLM-5.1, cutting P90 Time-to-First-Token from 59 seconds to 3.8 seconds (about 15x) and roughly tripling KV-cache capacity on a single 8-GPU NVIDIA H200 node. Download the white paper for the full approach, including DP Attention, KV-cache-aware routing, and results on NVIDIA B200.


Selecting Your Next Oscilloscope: Why Vertical Resolution Matters

Selecting Your Next Oscilloscope: Why Vertical Resolution Matters

See how oscilloscope architecture can uncover low-level ripple, transient glitches and EMI behavior before hidden signal problems lead to redesigns or production failures.


DisplayPort: Compliance and Signal Integrity Debugging

DisplayPort: Compliance and Signal Integrity Debugging

As DisplayPort data rates and bandwidth requirements continue to increase, comprehensive PHY compliance testing is essential to verify signal integrity and interoperability. This application note outlines the key measurement methodologies for validating DisplayPort source transmitters and passive cables, including oscilloscope-based compliance testing, signal integrity analysis, and VNA-based S-parameter characterization.


Understanding Voltage Controlled Oscillators

Understanding Voltage Controlled Oscillators

Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCOs) are at the core of modern RF systems, enabling everything from 5G and radar to satellite communications and high-speed digital interfaces. Discover why understanding VCO fundamentals and characterization is essential for designing and testing reliable, high-performance electronic systems.


Modified Agile for Electronics Development: A Smarter Path to High-Value Solutions

Modified Agile for Electronics Development: A Smarter Path to High-Value Solutions

Discover how to apply agile methods to hardware development. Boost speed, reduce risk, and build smarter electronics solutions.


Coaxial Cables and Cable Assemblies: Ensuring Signal Integrity with Advanced Coax Solutions

Coaxial Cables and Cable Assemblies: Ensuring Signal Integrity with Advanced Coax Solutions

Choosing the right coaxial cable is essential to maintaining signal integrity and reliable performance. This white paper explains how key factors such as impedance, frequency, attenuation, temperature, flexibility, and cable size influence cable and cable-assembly selection.


Mastering the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Maneuvering in Modern Electronic Warfare

Mastering the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Maneuvering in Modern Electronic Warfare

Learn how electronic warfare teams turn RF signals and sensor data into an operational advantage.


Behind the Design: 11 kW Matrix OBC Innovation

Behind the Design: 11 kW Matrix OBC Innovation

Go behind the design of an 11 kW matrix on-board charger that supports global charging standards while reducing passive components, size, and cost.


How 10BASE-T1S Enables a New Generation of Software-Defined Vehicles

How 10BASE-T1S Enables a New Generation of Software-Defined Vehicles

See how 10BASE-T1S brings Ethernet to edge devices while reducing wiring, eliminating gateways, and improving network diagnostics and reliability.


High-Reliability Signal Conditioning for Pressure and Force Sensors

High-Reliability Signal Conditioning for Pressure and Force Sensors

Learn how integrated signal conditioning improves the accuracy, stability, diagnostics, and reliability of pressure and force sensors in demanding systems.


A 100 kW Bidirectional DC Fast Charger: Architecture, Design, and Performance

A 100 kW Bidirectional DC Fast Charger: Architecture, Design, and Performance

Explore the architecture and measured performance of a modular 100 kW bidirectional charger designed for EVs, commercial fleets, and high-voltage platforms.


GaN Power Architectures Guide

GaN Power Architectures Guide

An introduction to a new way of utilizing wide-bandgap, high-frequency gallium nitride power components to radically reduce size, volume, and switching losses.


Intelligent Power and Sensing Solutions for Drones

Intelligent Power and Sensing Solutions for Drones

Learn how to improve efficiency, reliability, and autonomy in modern drone designs.


Understanding Time-of-Flight Sensing

Understanding Time-of-Flight Sensing

Accurate short-range (≤ 11 m) single- and multi-zone dToF measurement featuring TMF8829 and TMF8806 sensors.